1 BILLION EUROS A YEAR (TNO), 2.7 BILLION OF WHICH IS DUEMENTIONED B...

6.1 billion Euros a year (TNO), 2.7 billion of which is duementioned by Dwyer [49] as the problem of 'misclassifi-to sickness absence and allowances. This is comparablecation' as an inevitable consequence of dividing a sampleof employees into those at risk and not at risk.with over 1% of the Gross National Product of the Neth-erlands.The occupational health physician can be confident thatthe employee is actually free of the chance to be absent forConclusionA distress cutoff of ≥ 11 was defined. This cutoff point willpsychological problems when the test result is negative.result in a measure that can be used as a credible selectionOn the other hand, the large majority of the selected pop-instrument for interventions such as stress managementulation with a cutoff point greater than 11 does notprograms to reduce distress and sickness absence due tobelong to the population on sick leave, which is a reasonpsychological complaints in occupational health practice