This booklet represents the short version of the START-procedure for the risk assessment of mental stress at the work. This procedure has been developed in the framework of a research project funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation.The research project aimed at developing strategies which...

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...