högbelastande

Högbelastande is a Swedish adjective used to describe something that imposes a high load, strain, or burden on a person, system, or process. The term combines hög, meaning high, with belastande, the present participle of belasta “to burden,” to indicate a substantial level of demand or stress.

The term is commonly used in technical and professional Swedish, especially in occupational health, ergonomics, information technology, engineering, healthcare, and logistics. It often appears before a noun to denote tasks, data flows, or environments with substantial resource requirements or coping demands, for example högbelastande arbetsuppgifter, högbelastande dataströmmar, eller en högbelastande arbetsmiljö.

Compared with belastande or krävande, högbelastande emphasizes the magnitude of the load rather than just general difficulty. In English, it corresponds to high-load or high-demand. The usage is more frequent in formal, technical, or policy texts than in everyday speech.

Assessment and mitigation of högbelastande conditions are common in contexts such as workload analysis, capacity planning, and system monitoring. Mitigation strategies may include load balancing, scaling of resources, process optimization, or redesign of tasks to reduce peak demand and lower the risk of fatigue, errors, or failures.

In summary, högbelastande describes situations or components that place a substantial load on people or systems, and is a term frequently encountered in professional and technical Swedish discourse. See also workload, capacity planning, and load balancing.