Cariad - Enabling employees for mentally safe and healthy work in tech
Department of Occupational, Social and Preventive Medicine
New Work requires both employees and organisations to engage deeply with the question: What constitutes ‘healthy working’ under new conditions? It is more important than ever to help shape operational structures from a clinical perspective in order to preserve the original approach to good work.
In a joint project between the Institute of Occupational Medicine and CARIAD SE (Health & Safety), new, evidence-based and future-oriented insights into occupational health management in the context of agile working practices are being attained. It consists of two interlinked sub-projects with the aim of working with employees to understand and manage the realities of work and life. This participatory approach offers a wide range of opportunities to jointly implement long-term and sustainable solutions and to develop an individualised and diversity-sensitive perspective on occupational health in corporate structures.
Subproject I: ‘Risk assessment of mental stress’
An online survey will be conducted at three different times (longitudinal study) to comprehensively record relevant work structures and their connection to employee health. The survey represents a risk assessment of mental stress. The aim is to determine the effects of work stress on mental health. From this, specific recommendations for action to maintain and improve occupational health will be derived.
Subproject II: ‘CARIAID – Empowerment for mental health & safety’
This subproject involves the development and evaluation of an online group intervention tailored to the specific needs of employees. The aim is to create a situational and behavioural prevention format that secures the employment of employees with mental health issues. This involves working with employees to examine how agile working structures can be organised, where individual employees experience stress and how the different needs and skills of all employees can be aligned better.
In order to enable a holistic health analysis of working and living environments, the Institute of Occupational, Social and Preventive Medicine uses targeted participatory and human-centred methods and continuously develops these in a practical manner.
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contact information
- e-mail address: susanne.voelter-mahlknecht(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
- Fachärztin für Arbeitsmedizin
- Fachärztin für Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten
- Mitglied des Ausschusses für Arbeitsmedizin (AfAMed) des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS)
- Weiterbildungsermächtigung für den Facharzt "Arbeitsmedizin" (Ärztekammer Berlin)
- Mitglied der Sachverständigenkommissionen beim Institut für Medizinische und Pharmazeutische Prüfungsfragen (IMPP)
- Vorstandsmitglied der Fachgesellschaft DGAUM (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Arbeits- und Umweltmedizin)
- Mitglied des AG "Zukunft der Arbeit nach Corona" der Leopoldina - Working Group "future of work"
- Mitglied des Ehrenrats der DGAUM