“Anger Just One Letter Short of Danger”
If you have angry workers in your department or you yourself are angry, you may be more vulnerable to injuries on the job. A recent study by the Annals of Family Medicine found that high levels of anger increase the risk of injury.
Angry people are more likely to sustain injuries serious enough to require emergency medical care, and the risk is higher for men than women, says lead author Daniel Vinson of the University of Missouri.
The study, in the Annals of Family Medicine, found that nearly 32% of all the patients reported being irritable just before they were injured, 18% reported being angry and 13% reported being hostile. Anger more than quadrupled a person’s odds of being injured, while being hostile increased those odds six-fold.
For men, Vinson says, the link was particularly clear. Another study that followed 100 drivers for two weeks linked episodes of anger with “near accidents”.
Two additional studies found that angry people were more likely to have car crashes.
There is little doubt that anger can be a contributing factor in workplace injuries, but what do you do about it? Here are some tips:
And a bonus quote from W. W. Ziege:
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Thanks for the share, TO!
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