Measures to prevent psychosocial risks to cleaners

Introduction 

This article focuses on measures that can be taken to manage psychosocial risk factors faced by cleaners. More details of the work of cleaners and the psychosocial risk factors that they are exposed to are given in this OSHwiki article and EU-OSHA E-facts 51[1]. Factors not covered in these articles, such as digitalisation and the implications of COVID-19, are briefly mentioned below. When workers do not have the right resources to deal with the demands of their work successfully, this can cause stress and affect their mental and physical health[2],[3].  Psychosocial risk factors faced by workers in the cleaning sector include poor work…