Psychosocial evaluation: quantitative or qualitative?
Iván Fernández Suarez, senior technician in Occupational Risk Prevention at Fraternidad-Muprespa in Oviedo has written the article: “Psychosocial evaluation: quantitative or qualitative?, practical advice on the methodology to be used in the evaluation psychosocial", which has been published in the Magazine Management Practices of Occupational Risks No. 177 of last December.
The author explains to us how the psychosocial risk assessment aims to identify risk factors in the organization and establish preventive measures to minimize damage, since it is not an individual evaluation, much less a psychological evaluation, but rather the perception of the staff in relation to the social and organizational variables of the job is sought and the social functioning of the staff in the environment is analyzed. work.
With this article our technician aims to highlight the relevance of these techniques in reducing workplace accidents, as well as describe its fundamental methodology from a practical perspective by answering questions about this matter in the field of how an opinion can be numerically quantified or how we can delve deeper into a subjective element without breaking confidentiality.
The conclusions of Iván Fernández's text indicate that the benefits of a psychosocial evaluation directly result in the preventive culture of the organization, in the first place because it affects the perception of the worker who is the fundamental actor in any cultural change. Secondly, because it allows us to know variables that cannot be measured with other types of techniques and encourages worker participation in the organization's decisions.
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