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Stress...At Work

NIOSH Guide to Workplace Stress

By National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

About this book.

This NIOSH booklet explains common causes of job stress and outlines steps organizations can take to recognize and prevent it. It uses workplace examples to connect working conditions, employee wellbeing, and organizational responses. This is the original 1999 edition and is provided as background reading.

Publication: 1999; DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 99-101. Format: Original PDF, 32 pages.

Source credit: NIOSH [1999]. Stress...at work. DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 99-101. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Authors: Steven Sauter; Lawrence Murphy; Michael Colligan; Naomi Swanson; Joseph Hurrell Jr.; Frederick Scharf Jr.; Raymond Sinclair; Paula Grubb; Linda Goldenhar; Toni Alterman; Janet Johnston; Anne Hamilton; Julie Tisdale. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/publications/numbered/99-101.html Original PDF: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/media/pdfs/2026/06/99-101.pdf Rights: Public domain; explicit unrestricted copying/reprinting statement in original publication. License or reuse statement: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/media/pdfs/2026/06/99-101.pdf

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Materials developed by CDC/NIOSH. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC, NIOSH, HHS or the U.S. Government. Original material is available without charge from the agency website.

About the author.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Prepared by a NIOSH working group. NIOSH is the federal occupational safety and health research agency. Full working-group credits are preserved below and in the original PDF.