The footwear industry has showed continuous development, imposing as an essential industry in Portuguese social and economic growth. Three shoe factories in northern Portugal were subjected to psychosocial risk as-sessment, using COPSOQ II. Results show that diverse psychosocial factors are detrimental to workers’ health and well-being, namely: work pace, cognitive demands, emotional demands, influence and job insecuri-ty. This negative exposure requires urgent psychosocial and organizational interventions in order to reduce the malicious effects of the work context on employees’ health. The results provide meaningful and important in-formation about the footwear industry specific psychosocial risk factors and their impact on health and well-being. Preventive measures should be taken in order to improve health at work.
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