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Book Part Sick Relationship with Work Stress as a Psychosocial Risk: A Shopping Mall Example(AHFE International, 2024) Aytac S.; Bulbul S.; Akalp H.G.; Akalp, Husre Gizem; Aytac, Serpil; Bulbul, SahametRecently, buildings, residences, plazas, shopping malls, skyscrapers and towers that have been rising all over the world have begun to form our living spaces as smart structures where private, social and business lives are carried out. The fact that these closed spaces threaten the health of people living and working in them and cause diseases, has led to these buildings being called “sick building syndrome (SBS)”. Sick building syndrome results in the health of people who spend time and work in these buildings being affected both physically and psychologically. The aim of this study is to reveal the symptoms of sick building syndrome and its effects on stress, which is a psycho-social risk at workplace. A cross-sectional study conducted in two randomly selected shopping malls in Turkey involved 268 employees. Research findings indicate that employees suffer from symptoms like dry throat, runny nose, eye irritation, headaches, muscle-joint pain and fatigue. Additionally, it has been observed that these symptoms intensify during peak weekend traffic Moreover, the sick buildings phenomenon increases the stress levels of employees’ due to the conditions associated with enclosed spaces. © 2024. Published by AHFE.Conference Object Psycho-Social Impact of the Disaster on Employees in Terms of Occupational Health and Safety: The Case of Turkey(Springer-Verlag Singapore Pte Ltd, 2025) Aytac, Sevinc Serpil; Akalp, Husre Gizem; Bilir, Burcu Ongen; Mamaci, MerveThe earthquakes that occurred in Maras, Turkey, on February 6, 2023, with intensities of 7.7 MW and 7.6 MW, deeply affected the lives of millions of people in economic, social and psychological terms within a few seconds and caused loss of life. The aim of this study is to examine the moderator role of disaster preparedness plans in workplaces on the relationship between post-traumatic stress levels and depression, anxiety, stress levels of people who are directly or indirectly exposed to these earthquakes and have an active work life. The data was obtained from a total of 206 blue-collar employees who were actively working in a private company and were directly and indirectly exposed to the effects of the earthquake. In data collection, demographic information form, The Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) were used. According to the findings analyzed using structural equation modeling showed that having a disaster preparedness plan in workplaces weakens the strength of the relationship between post-traumatic stress level and depression, anxiety, stress levels.