Course Introduction

Stress — just the word may be enough to set your nerves on edge. Everyone feels stressed from time to time. Some people may cope with stress more effectively or recover from stressful events quicker than others. It's important to know your limits when it comes to stress to avoid more serious health effects.

Stress can also have a big impact on your work environment. This course highlights the causes of stress at work and outlines steps an employer can take to help prevent job stress.

Course Components

Once you complete this course, you will have knowledge of the following components:

• stress in today’s workplace
• causes of workplace stress
• job conditions that may lead to stress
• impact of stress on the employer
• job stress and employee health
• stress prevention programs
• minimizing stress in the workplace
• managing stress before, during, and after a crisis

Modules

To begin your training, click on the module links below. If you are just starting this course, you should start with module 1.

1. Stress in Today's Workplace
2. Job Stress Effects on Workers
3. Preventing Job Stress
4. Managing Stress

Please login to your student dashboard to access and download this FREE course PDF studyguide. You can save this study guide to your computer for offline studying, or print the study guide if you prefer.

Course 765 Final Exam

After studying the course material and answering the quiz questions, it is time to take the final exam. We highly recommend answering the module quiz questions to check your understanding of the course material. The final exam questions are typically developed from these quiz questions.

OSHAcademy course final exams are designed to make sure students have gained a sufficient understanding of the content covered within each course. To help demonstrate this understanding, students must achieve a passing score on course final exams. It is OSHAcademy's policy to protect the integrity of our exams: as a result, we do not provide missed questions to students.

This is an open book exam. Students are permitted to use a separate browser window to review course content while taking the exam. If you do not pass a final exam, you will see a "Retake Exam" button next to the course on your student dashboard.

If you have already paid for your certificate

If you have already paid for certificates, your exam score will be displayed on your student dashboard after successfully passing the final exam. If you chose PDF certificates, you can view and print your certificate and personal transcript from your student dashboard. If you chose original printed documents, they will be prepared and mailed to the address in your student account.

If you only want free training

OSHAcademy provides free access to all training materials, including course modules, practice quizzes, exercises, and final exams. However, exam scores, certificates, and transcripts are provided only if you purchase a certificate package to document your training. If you do not require official training documentation, we will archive your exam results should you decide to purchase official certificates later.

Take the Final Exam

Endnotes

1. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (2014). Managing Stress During a Crisis. Retrieved from: www.osha.gov/SLTC/emergencypreparedness/resilience_resources/support_documents/supervisorintra/ intradeployment_supervisors.html

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2014). Stress: At Work. Retrieved from: www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/99-101/

3. Government of Western Australia: Department of Commerce. (2014). Stress. Retrieved from: www.commerce.wa.gov.au/worksafe/stress

4. National Institute on Mental Health. (2014). Fact Sheet on Stress. Retrieved from: www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/stress/index.shtml

Additional Resources

1. Toolkits and Information Resources: Stress
2. HSE Management Standards Indicator Tool
3. Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
4. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: National Center for PTSD
5. Guide to Psychosocial Risks
6. CDC A-Z Index of Terms