Teachers' work-related stress - survey results and brochure

07/05/2012

Teachers are among the professions reporting the highest level of work-related stress. Furthermore, the issue of work-related stress is particularly important these days. In times of economic crisis work-related stress can increase and become an even bigger concern for the health and safety of workers. Long working hours, difficult working conditions, pressure, deadlines and in particular job insecurity are factors strongly affecting the level of work-related stress - not only in times of economic crisis. Therefore, it becomes even more important to focus on how to cope with the extra pressure.

On these grounds, a project was initiated to launch a European-wide survey to collect concrete information and facts on work-related stress amongst teachers with the aim to gather accurate and comprehensive data for the ETUCE and its member organisations to use in their on-going and future work on this Health and Safety topic.

The European trade union committee for education - ETUCE - has made available this study report containing the full overview of the results of its stress survey as well as the ETUCE project brochure on Teachers' work-related stress: European-wide Survey - Assessment, Comparison and Evaluation of the Impact of Psychosocial Hazards on Teachers at their Workplace in the EU.

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AplusA-online.de - Source: European Trade Union Committee for Education