Objective:

To identify and analyze psychosocial risk factors, exposure to traumatic events and mental health in employees of a textile company based on the requirements of the Official Mexican Standard NOM-035-STPS-2018 entitled "Psychosocial risk factors in work, Identification, Analysis and Prevention ”, and the instruments for this purpose.

Methods and materials:

Non-experimental cross-sectional descriptive correlational study, in a sample of 652 participants, through the questionnaires: General Health, Traumatic Events and Psychosocial Risk Factors. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) were performed with a statistical significance set on 5% or less.

Results:

Among the risk factors: Working environment, Working time organization, Leadership and Relations at work and Organizational environment are at a low level, except in Activity Factors with a medium level. According to the results 21% of the workers were exposed to severe traumatic events and 13% require psychotherapeutic attention 2% are in risk of suicidal. The correlations showed that when a traumatic event occurs, psychosocial risk factors, the work environment and mental health are interrelated and therefore affects the mental, physical, working environment and activities of workers.

Conclusion:

Exposure to severe traumatic events, mental health and psychosocial risk factors are statistically and significantly related, having an incidence on each other, therefore, in general, preventive and corrective intervention actions are required, as well as training to the performed activities.

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