Managerial and Ergonomic Measures for Reducing Psychosocial Risk Factors in the Workplace Under COVID-19

Abstract

Under COVID-19, organisations are in a crisis situation. Challenging are topics related to business survival, changing work processes and managing the psychosocial risk. The subject of research in the article are the psychosocial risk factors in the workplace, their manifestations in the pandemic and the management and ergonomic measures for their impact reduction. The following main goals have been achieved: the theoretical foundations of the issue of psychosocial risks have been discussed, their specifics in the crisis have been highlighted, the results of an empirical survey in organisations in the transport sector have been presented, conclusions and recommendations from the study have been formulated.