Work related mental disorder

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Work related mental disorder can be recognized either under the accident at work compensation scheme or the occupational disease compensation scheme said the last report of the European Forum of Insurances against Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases dated February 2004.

Voluntary Violence at the workplace become more and more at stake. For example retail trades, often paid in cash, are targeted with weapons. This result in a long duration work loss for post traumatic stress disorder, and an increase  of daily compensation wages for health insurance funds. In an other hand, burn out caused by work overload  is also often seen, with a similar result of work related mental disorder.

Fear in the E R

Voluntary Violence in the work place is an important issue which is rarely addressed in epidemiological occupational studies. However some papers highlighted the at risk professions. According to OSHA violence is the third leading cause of death in the work place and the first leading cause for women in the United States.
People working in the mental health field rank just behind policemen and medical workers rank just behind taxi drivers in the top ten of violence in the work place
So that the use of metal detectors and taser in Emergency Rooms (ER) is more and more disseminated.

 

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