ABSTRACT
The "Instrument to Identify Regulation Hindrances in Industrial Work" is a psychological work analysis procedure. The instrument was developed over a period of four years and tested on approximately four hundred jobs from twelve branches of industry. RHIA can be used to identify, describe and quantify task-related mental stress of various work tasks in all industrial branches. The basic stress concept of RHIA is derived from the Theory of Action Regulation developed by Hacker, Oesterreich and Volpert. The approach attempts to represent the psychic structures of human actions, and assumes an active, goal-oriented regulation of actions. One general field of application for the RHIA instrument is scientific research. The detailed description of the regulation barriers (RB) and their causes together with the level of time binding, the characterization of monotonous conditions, and the estimation of the degree of time pressure, which are the main results of the RHIA analysis, give work designers specific information enabling design of a reduced-stress environment.
