Occupational stress and work-related unintentional injuries among Iranian car manufacturing workers.

This study in 2004 and 2005 aimed to present the pattern of job stress among car manu- facturing workers in one factory in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and to assess its relationship with oc- cupational injuries. Data were collected from 608 male workers (508 at-risk general workers and 100 with injuries in the last year). Job stress was assessed by the Belkic occupational stress index. The prevalence of job stress was 21.3%. The main occupational stressors were time pressure (78.5%), mode of payment and evaluation (56.4%), and interaction with people and machines (41.3%). The risk of injury among those with job stress was significantly higher than those without job stress (OR = 2.0; 95% CI: 1.20-3.30). Job stress was responsible for 11.9% of all occupational injuries in this group. Stress professionnel et traumatismes non intentionnels lies au travail chez des ouvriers iraniens de l'industrie automobile