Psychological Stress Analysis

Keeping an Eye on Mental Health

Increased skills requirements, constant changes to job profiles, and a growing trend of employees within companies to network all place your staff under great pressure. Mental stress and job stress are hazards that work and occupational safety also needs to take into account, by including these factors in your required risk assessments. Our experts can help you analyze psychological stress methodically and can make concrete recommendations for improvement. After all, your employees' health is the key to your success.

Benefits at a Glance

With psychological stress analyses as part of a risk assessment by TÜV Rheinland, you:

  • Meet the requirements of occupational safety regulations in compliance with risk assessment
  • Get an objective assessment of the mental demands of jobs in your company
  • Rely on standardized methods of analysis – based on the DIN EN ISO 10075-3 norm
  • Can use our analysis to improve jobs in terms of their psychological stress
  • Benefit from our long-standing experience and from the expertise of our large network of experts, which includes occupational physicians, psychologists and health care managers
  • Gain additional peace of mind based on the scientific background of our services - in cooperation with an academic department for work and organizational psychology
  • Benefit from the quality of training of our staff through regular training and advanced education

Psychological Stress Analysis: Our Methodology

Our experts measure mental stress using validated and standardized procedures - based on the DIN EN ISO 10075-3 norm. It combines observation with structured interviews, which we conduct on-site at your company. These measures take the following into account:

  • Decision-making leeway
  • Complexity and variability
  • Qualification requirements
  • Risky work situations and specific requirements for reliable handling
  • Non-specific stress

Our Approach

Preparation of Detailed Analysis
It takes several stages to assess mental stress in your company. Before the actual analysis, we inform your managers and employees about the course of the proceedings. In consultation with the company, our experts select which jobs should typically be analyzed. They collect general information on the company as the basis for their future, detailed analysis, including the corporate structure, descriptions of work tasks, work time regulations, and rules on internal communications.

Stress Analysis: Observation and Structured Interviews
Once familiar with the features and descriptions of jobs, our analysts "watch" your employees at work in typical work situations. To capture work processes with as much detail as possible, we ask specific questions to understand work tasks, where necessary. In addition, we ask your employees, for example, about cooperation with other departments, frequency of specific activities, or organizational arrangements, to better describe the conditions of the job in detail. On this basis, we then run structured interviews with a few pre-selected employees from the specific workplace.

Evaluation and Recommendations
To conclude, our experts then evaluate all the jobs analyzed in a written report. In addition to the objective assessment of the mental demands of the various jobs, this report also includes policy recommendations. This lets you selectively reduce areas of psychological stress we identified in the various workplaces.