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Workplace stress and health are important subsets of the safety engineering field. Engineers need to maintain physical, emotional, and mental health to be productive and safe employees, which is beneficial to their employers through the reduction of accidents. Besides the human element, which may involve injury, death, or other lasting physical or mental consequences, accidents cost companies time, money, and valuable resources spent on extensive litigation. This paper focuses on mental health within the context of workplace stress since the globally felt adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought high priority to research on identifying and combating mental health problems. While most mental health research focuses on healthcare professionals, our contribution is the extrapolation of this research to engineering. A systemic literature review was performed, which consisted of gathering data, using multiple bibliometric software, and providing discussion and conclusions drawn from the metadata. The software utilized for analysis included Vicinitas, Scopus, Google n-gram and Google Scholar, VOSviewer, Scite.ai, CiteSpace, BibExcel, Harzing, and MaxQDA. The original keywords included “workplace stress”, “mental health”, and “engineering,” but our analysis revealed additional trending terms of mindfulness, nursing, and COVID-19. Our findings showed that workplace stress is experienced throughout multiple industries and causes significant harm to employees and their organizations. There are practical solutions to workplace stress studied in nursing and construction that can be applied to other fields that need intervention.
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Torres, G.M.S., Backstrom, J., Duffy, V.G. (2023). A Systematic Review of Workplace Stress and Its Impact on Mental Health and Safety. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J., Duffy, V.G., Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14055. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48041-6_41
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