Research Topics in 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

• Health consequences, both physical and psychological, of work

• Influence of psychosocial factors related to work and occupational well being

• Workplace violence

• Organizational risk factors, risk perception, and health risk communication and training

• Human factors psychology and safety at work

• The interaction of individual, work, and non-work factors and occupational well-being

• The relationship among occupational stress, safety, and demographic variables (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, and age)

• Research methods, statistics, and epidemiology applied to occupational health psychology

• Evaluating the social and economic costs of occupational illness and injury

• Designing and evaluating organizational interventions and programs to enhance safe work behavior and prevent or reduce risk of occupational illness and injury