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occupational psychology
expertise field which deals with the psychological and mental demands of the job and how to evaluate the mental capacity of different individuals in order to achieve a proper placement from the health point of view

When training apprentices as fitters, electricians, mechanical/electronics engineers, etc., the company aims to make them ‘profitable’ for the future by providing them with a new skill called ‘Future Competence’. An inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach is taken to safety within ‘Future Competence’ which includes occupational medicine, occupational psychology, safety techniques, sports science, apprentice training and styles of management.
EU-OSHA, European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2006, “A Safe Start for Young Workers in Practice”, https://osha.europa.eu/en/tools-and-publications/publications/reports/GPB06
Translations
- Български: трудова психология
- Čeština: psychologie práce
- Dansk: erhvervspsykologi
- Deutsch: Arbeitspsychologie
- Ελληνικά: ψυχολογία της εργασίας
- English: occupational psychology
- Español: psicología del trabajo
- Eesti: tööpsühholoogia
- Suomi: työpsykologia
- Français: psychologie du travail
- Hrvatski: occupational psychology
- Magyar: munkapszichológia
- Íslenska: vinnusálfræði
- Italiano: psicologia del lavoro
- Lietuvių: darbo psichologija
- Latviešu: arodpsiholoģija
- Malti: psikoloġija okkupazzjonali
- Nederlands: arbeidspsychologie
- Norsk: arbeidspsykologi
- Polski: psychologia pracy
- Português: psicologia do trabalho
- Română: psihologia muncii
- Slovenčina: pracovná psychológia
- Slovenščina: psihologija dela
- Svenska: arbetspsykologi