O-308 Assessing the Effectiveness of Worker Participation in the Prevention of Work-Related Psychosocial Risks

Introduction Ensuring participation is the most important factor that will ensure the effectiveness of work stress initiatives and plays a complementary role in protecting and controlling direct work stress through the concrete implementation of job control. Psychosocial risk should be assessed and monitored to determine the effect of worker participation on preventing psychosocial risks. This research aimed to evaluate the relationship and impact of worker participation in workplaces with other psychosocial risks. Methods It is a cross-sectional study. The field study was carried out between 05.03.2023 and 21.05.2023 in two workplaces from the industry(N=484) and construction(N=136) sectors. The number of eligible participants included in the analysis was 592. Worker participation, which is the main independent variable, was used in the EUROFOUND Survey in Europe with worker participation questions administered in Turkish and the KOPSOR Scale for psychosocial risks in working life. Pearson correlation analyzes were performed to evaluate the relationship between worker participation and other psychosocial risks in data analysis. Results Eighty-six percent of participants were male and 86.7% were blue-collar workers. Lack of employee participation has been found to correlate with almost all psychosocial risks at work (quantitative demands, cognitive demands, influence at work, possibilities for development, control over working time, meaning of work, commitment to the workplace, predictability, recognition, role-clarity, quality of leadership, social support from colleagues, social support from supervisors, sense of community, insecurity over working conditions, work-life conflict, trust, organizational justice, job satisfaction, and burnout). Conclusion Determining policies to increase employee participation is very important to prevent psychosocial risks at workplace.