Occupational Health Cooperation
The main task of occupational health care is to promote, in cooperation with the workplace, the health and working capacity of employees, safe working conditions, the functioning of the work community and the prevention of work-related illnesses and accidents.
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The Occupational Health Care Act (1383/2001) (pdf)(avautuu uuteen ikkunaan, you will be directed to another service) obliges the employer to provide occupational health care to the staff when there are one or more employees, regardless of their working hours or duration of employment.
The employer is legally obliged to provide preventive occupational health services to their employees. Organizing nursing care is voluntary, however. Entrepreneurs can also procure occupational health services for themselves.