Due to the changing world of work, mental stress is increasingly becoming the focus of statutory occupational health and safety and workplace health promotion. According to European standard EN ISO 10075-1, which forms the basis for employee protection and in particular the 2013 amendment regarding the evaluation of mental stress, this is "the totality of all detectable influences that come from outside and have a psychological effect on people".
It is therefore not about measuring job satisfaction, burnout, performance, stress or similar in individual employees, but exclusively about the conditions under which work takes place. It examines which work-related factors can potentially lead to psychological stress in order to specifically identify and improve them.
In 23 EU countries, the systematic recording of the stress situation is explicitly enshrined in law.
