Hello and welcome to ETII podcast, Voices on the World of Work.

I'm your host, Bianca Luna Fabrice, and in this episode, we will be looking into psychosocial risks

with Old Cefalillo, researcher here at the ETII.

Hi, Ode and welcome.

Well, it's a real pleasure to be invited to discuss about this topic. So, thank you for having me.

So I think it would be actually quite helpful to start from a very simple question.

So for us, lay people, what are psychosocial risks?

And it would be actually quite helpful if you could give us a few examples.

If it were that easy.

No, first of all, I think it's important to stress that

circumstantial risks arise from a lack of prevention of risk at work. This is due to a lack of

prevention of collective prevention that will impact individual people. And this lack of prevention,

it's about how we design work.

It's about how we organize work and about, for example, management.

And then this mismanagement will impact the workers negatively, both physically and psychologically.

And here, I will give you the example you're looking for.

We are all familiar with the concept of stress, burnout, workplace bullying.

Well, sadly, these are the effect of psychological risk factors.

And this appear because we have mismanaged, for example, excessive workloads, time pressure, conflicting

demands and lack of role clarity.

We have all been in a situation, for example, where there is a group project, right?

And your HRG or your management designed you or say that you are the one in charge

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