Occupational Stressors and Human Error Occurrence Reasons

7 Occupational Stressors and Human Error Occurrence Reasons 

There are many occupational stressors that may compromise safety and reliability in the oil and gas industry. These stressors may be grouped into four classifications as follows [2,14,16]  

Workload-related stressors These stressors are concerned with work overload or work underload. In case of work overload, the job requirements exceed the ability of a person to satisfy them properly. Similarly, in case of work underload, the current duties being carried out by the person do not provide sufficient level of stimulation. Some examples of work underload are lack of opportunity for using acquired skills and expertise of the person, task repetitiveness, and the lack of any intellectual input. 

Occupational change-related stressors These stressors are concerned with factors that disrupt the proper functioning of physiological, behavioral, and cognitive patterns of the person. 

Occupational frustration-related stressors These stressors are concerned with the problems pertaining to occupational frustration. Three examples of these problems are the lack of effective communication, poor career development guidance, and the ambiguity of one s role. 

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