The Occupational Stress Index

This book offers a practical way to apply a methodology derived from cognitive ergonomics and brain research for assessing work stressors: the Occupational Stress Index (OSI), originally developed by the author. To do so, some basic information is first presented about how the brain receives and handles information: the aversions and affinities of the human nervous system in relation to the environment. Two divergent trends in occupational psychosocial research are then discussed. One is represe