Combined use of work diagnostic measuring instruments and ICF in occupational health and safety – first steps

Abstract

The work diagnostic devices (work simulators, desktop skill measuring devices) have long been used in the field of work psychology to assess the skills required for certain professions and to assess suitability for high-attention, high-risk jobs. The work diagnostic devices can also be used in a variety of contexts, for career-choice counselling, assessment of job suitability, return to work after illness, rehabilitation, employment os people with disability. In the same cases, the ICF („International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health”) may also be used. Using our previous research on the wider use of the work diagnostic devices and the ICF, we would like to develop a method to assess the skills required to certain jobs and the workloads caused by work environment, and to develop an understandable, usable coding method of these assessments for occupational health and safety professionals also.