The stress-relevant scaling of vocational activities ascertains and compares with job demands which are characterized by many different human activities. It is the aim of ergonomic efforts to harmonize the influences resulting from the configuration o...
The stress-relevant scaling of vocational activities ascertains and compares with job demands which are characterized by many different human activities. It is the aim of ergonomic efforts to harmonize the influences resulting from the configuration of work content, workplace, equipment, working environment and work organization with man's physical and mental abilities and his psychosocial needs.
At present, physiological measurement still provide the best results for the evaluation of physical workoad and climatic stresses. Athough physiological measurements proved the best results, it is also true that the method is expensive and rather slow, not to speak of the problem of direct measurement of the psychological stresses and pressures of the job.
For these reasons, the standardized ergonomic analysis in presented : Job profiles. The principles and possibilities of method are explained and their utilities are shown on a practical analysis of car-engine assembling.