Introduction:

Psychosocial risk factors have been linked to different affectations, among which is fatigue, which not only affects the health and well-being of the worker, but also interrupts productivity.

Objective:

To evaluate the level of psychosocial risk present in the organizational environment of the staff of an Ecuadorian pharmaceutical company.

Method:

A non-experimental quantitative study with an analytical cross-sectional design was conducted. The study sample consisted of 112 workers. The Ecuadorian psychosocial risk assessment questionnaire called MDT 2018 and Yoshitake's subjective symptoms of fatigue questionnaire were used.

Results:

The presence of mental fatigue has a significant correlation with the self-perceived health subdimension (rb = .275, p < 0.05), while physical fatigue maintains a significant relationship with the recovery dimension (rb = .223, p < 0.05), with the subdimensions workplace harassment (rb = .196, p < 0.05) and workaholism (rb = .209, p < 0.05); however, the correlations are weak.

Conclusions:

Workers presented low results compared to the international literature; however, it is important to address the lack of recovery of workers between one workday and another to prevent the presence of physical and mental fatigue within the company.

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