Mental and Occupational Stress Assessment of Pink Collar Workers

Suchismita Satapathy is an associate professor in the School of Mechanical Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. She has published more than 130 articles in national and international journals and conferences. She has also published many books and e-books for academic and research purposes. Her areas of interest include production operation management, operation research, acoustics, sustainability, and supply chain management. She has filled three Indian patents, among them two published. She has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. She has guided many Ph.D., M.Tech., and B.Tech. students. She has published books such as Production Operation Management (Stadium Press) and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques in Waste Management (CRC Press), Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (Springer), Soft Computing and Optimization Techniques for Sustainable Agriculture (De Gruyter), and many of her projects are ongoing. Arturo Realyvásquez Vargas is a full-time professor from the department of industrial engineering at Tecnológico Nacional de Mexico/Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana in Mexico. He received a master's degree in industrial engineering and a Ph.D. in engineering sciences from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. Currently, he is studying a Ph.D. in innovation in product engineering and industrial process at the University of La Rioja (Spain). In addition, his main research areas are related to the optimization of industrial processes, lean manufacturing, and ergonomics. He is an active member of the Society of Ergonomists of Mexico Civil Association (Sociedad de Ergonomistas de México, SEMAC) and the Network of Optimization of Industrial Processes (Red de Optimización de Procesos Industriales, ROPRIN). Currently, he is a national researcher recognized by the National Council of Science & Technology of Mexico (CONACYT) as level I. Meghana Mishra is a research scholar in the KIIT school of Management, Bhubaneswar, India. She has published more than 4 articles in national and international journals and conferences. Her areas of interest include production operation management, economic study of agrisector, sustainability, business process reengineering, ergonomics, etc.

• Introduction.- Review on mental health and workplace hazards.- Assessment of stressors and risk factors of nurses engaged in health care service.- Evaluation of Risk and mental health for nursery, school teachers and child care workers.- Designing a framework to reduce the mental work load and improve mental health of workers engaged in pink collar jobs.- Exploring the physical and mental pressure of workers in hotel service.- Conclusion and study on the changing scenario of the pink collar workers industry.