Predicting new major depression symptoms from long working hours, psychosocial safety climate and work engagement: a population-based cohort study.

Objectives: This study sought to assess the association between long working hours, psychosocial safety climate (PSC), work engagement (WE) and new major depression symptoms emerging over the next 12 months. PSC is the work climate supporting workplace psychological health.

Setting: Australian prospective cohort population data from the states of New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia.

Psychosocial safety climate, emotional exhaustion, and work injuries in healthcare workplaces.

Preventing work injuries requires a clear understanding of how they occur, how they are recorded, and the accuracy of injury surveillance. Our innovation was to examine how psychosocial safety climate (PSC) influences the development of reported and unreported physical and psychological workplace injuries beyond (physical) safety climate, via the erosion of psychological health (emotional exhaustion). Self-report data (T2, 2013) from 214 hospital employees (18 teams) were linked at the team level to the hospital workplace injury register (T1, 2012; T2, 2013; and T3, 2014).