A Study on Occupational stress Faced by Traffic Police in Pune District.

Occupational stress refers to the amount of stress experienced by an employee in the work environment. Workplace-stress is caused by numerous factors, including what duties an individual must perform, or their peer group in an organization, and their overall workload. An employee who has stressful work-related duties, such as an emergency room doctor, law enforcement police officers and traffic police who is responsible for the lives of countless people each day, are more likely to experience workplace stress. An employee, who has a heavy workload, is also more likely to experience workplace-stress. Workplace-stress often leads to the stress outside the workplace due to the attending to other items of work in an individual’s daily life. This stress is the cause of experiencing lower quality of work life. Objective: To study the occupational stress faced by the Traffic police in Pune District. Methodology: The cross-sectional study was conducted among 392 traffic police personnel in Pune District. The researcher evaluated traffic police of different designations. After receiving informed consent, a pre-structured proforma was used to collect the primary data Results: The research study analysis revealed that 27 percent traffic police realizing job pressure at work ,whereas 23 percent traffic police Feel anxiety, nervousness, and unease at work But it is also worth noting that around 84.2 percent respondents have not denied that they are not feeling frustrated Conclusion: Traffic police experience job pressure, job overload, a bad work environment, lack of resources, infrastructural facilities, and a proportional number of traffic cops, leading to anxiety, nervousness, and unease at work..