Effect of racial discrimination on work stress
February 4, 2005
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a new report on ethnicity, work characteristics, stress and health, which concludes that the combination of racial discrimination with gender and ethnicity is powerfully influential in work stress.
The purpose of the report was to investigate the prevalence of reported occupational stress and psychiatric disorder in black Caribbean, Asian and white workers and to understand the reasons for differences in occupational stress between ethnic groups.
The study concludes that the combination of racial discrimination and gender and ethnicity has a key effect on work stress, making particular groups, such as black Caribbean women who have experienced racial discrimination, more likely to experience work stress.
The report says that tackling racial discrimination at work, by creating an inclusive, supportive and open workplace, would impact on work stress and in turn reduce the potential for psychological damage.
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