Workers who report high stress are 30 percent more likely to have accidents than those with low stress. Accident claims also have a psychological component. The connection between stress, employee satisfaction, and claim filing cannot be ignored. When people are under stress, they become preoccupied with the issues troubling them. This makes the stressed-out employee more susceptible to missing environmental cues and information required to make both effective and safe decisions.
Stress also dulls the thinking process.
Besides killing pain, these natural chemicals also dull our ability to think and feel. Under extreme or unremitting stress, people become intellectually, emotionally, and interpersonally dull. Conflict and Interpersonal Problems With a more diverse work force, the increased use of teams, and our increasingly more service-based economy, interpersonal demands on employees are increasing. This in itself creates tremendous stress. In fact, St. Paul's report indicated that interpersonal demands due to working with team members and supervisors were the most significant cause of burnout.