Construction workers have been long recognized as stressful occupation. Stress is not limited to any particular Person or Industry but when comparing to other Industry, construction work is the third most stressful work after mining and police work. It is because the nature of construction industry which involve to the process of production and these contribute to dangerous and stressful occupation. Construction industry also contributes to the process of development and it is important in any nation’s economy. It is most frequently applied to major works such as buildings, civil works and related to the process of erection and assembly of large structure where all of these variables contribute to stress throughout the project life cycle because it involve a lot of physical activities especially the artisans who occupy the lower part in the pyramid. A building worker is a person who is employed to do any skilled, semiskilled or unskilled manual, technical or clerical work for hire or reward in connection with any building or other construction work and not the one who is employed in managerial or administrative or supervisory work. Occupational stress can affect not only individual and organization level and even affect the society. The Present study aims to identify the factors and outcome of Occupational Stress related to building construction workers. Both Primary and Secondary data were used for this study, 60 sample respondents were taken randomly for analysis purpose. Based on the findings, the researcher has given suitable suggestion to overcome the stress.

Construction Industry, Building Worker, Occupational Stress, Factors and Outcome of Stress