Amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health Act are entering into force at the beginning of June, the aim of which is to prevent incapacity for work, promote coping at work and, thus, improve the opportunities for employees to extend their careers while also maintaining their work ability. Instead of introducing new occupational safety obligations for employers, the existing obligations were specified.
Working Together: A Handbook helps to build a psychologically safe workplace. The handbook contains familiar, recurring situations from the workplace. We have chosen methods for each situation, which can help everyone get involved and use their own expertise to achieve a common goal.
Regular communication and agreeing on work methods are good ways of supporting those who work outside the actual workplace. According to the annual Occupational Safety and Health Panel, of workplaces where work outside the workplace occurs, more than half had agreed on common, clear and open work rules with the employees. This time, a total of 545 occupational safety representatives and managers responded to the survey.
The assessment of well-being at work will help you evaluate the practices that promote well-being at your workplace: what areas of well-being at work are implemented well at your workplace and what areas still need development.
In more and more work communities, a substantial share of the interactions and encounters take place virtually. This publication provides some tips on how the host of the event can support and strengthen a sense of connecting with people and an open, conversational atmosphere in online meetings.