Abstract
Psychosocial risk factors are present in the worker’s environment and his perception about them depends on a variety of causes. This study, a non-experimental and cross-sectional one, was carried out in a manufacturing industry in southern Jalisco, Mexico, whose objective was to evaluate the perception of personnel on psychosocial factors, through the WorkingConditions of Psychosocial Character Battery. Regarding the company staff, 84.9% of the workers rated their perception of Individual Factors as good or very good, which makes them likely immune to Psychological Exhaustion, while for theWork Content variable, 55.2% of them rated their perception as good or very good, and for Work Context just 40.2%, resulting in a difference of 44.8 % and 59.8% respectively, a perception of normal, regular and harmful conditions,which turned them into a vulnerable psychosocial risk factor group for Psychological Exhaustion, which highlighted the need for improvement actions.
Keywords
Psychosocial factors; Organization; Occupational health