Work Psychology

Occupational Health Management (OHM):

The operating principle ofOHM orients on salutogenetically based findings (Antonovsky, 1987), which assume that inhibiting a risk factor strengthens ressources. The Ottawa Charter (1986) of the World Health Organization (WHO) has definitively abandoned the disease orientation of traditional preventive and health education programs and developed a program under the guiding principle "How to make health?". Health is therefore a process that takes place in the concrete working and living contexts. The relevant question is not what makes people sick, but what keeps people healthy despite risks and burdens. The focus of the OHM is therefore clear in preventive approaches. OHM includes the systematic approach to promoting health in enterprises, public administrations and non-profit organizations. OHM is based on analysis, interventional planning, the implementation of interventions at the behavioral and environmental level and the evaluation of interventions. All these activities are planned via a central control group. In doing so, company doctors as well as health and safety workers are key persons. Operational health management thus forms the central operational area for action, from which the measures of occupational health promotion, work and health protection (for e.g. psychological risk assessment) and health-oriented leadership can develop.

Work analysis, risk assessments and the derivation of work organisation measures:

According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (§5), employers have to regularly evaluate the physical and psychological hazards resulting from the work of the employees. Works councils have the right and duty to co-determination. We make it easier for employers and HR representatives to enter the topic of work analysis and risk assessment by means of long-term training courses with rich learning materials (for example as a workshop). Furthermore, we are experts in the planning, implementation and evaluation of holistic work analyzes, in particular with regard to the psychological strains. Our services range from the use of screening methods to fine analysis. Through integrative assessment of the subjective, work-related experience of the employees as well as objective data (document analysis, work inspection and observations, analysis of the absenteeism, performance analysis, analysis of the psychophysiological characteristic), we arrive at a very accurate and comprehensive picture of the risks and resources of the work activities. Our analysis methods meet international scientific standards and rules (DIN EN ISO 10075, 2000, 2004, DIN EN 6385, 2004) and are practically tested. All analyzes include the derivation of possible work organization measures. We accompany you during their implementation and evaluation.