Occupational safety and health and work outside the workplace
Occupational safety and health and work outside the workplace
Workplaces are divided into three groups according to the type of work performed outside the workplace:
- Digital work: mainly carried out with digital tools (computer work, e.g. remote expert and information work)
- Non-digital work: mainly carried out without digital tools (mobile work, e.g. service, maintenance and repair work, sales work at the client's premises, transportation, home care)
- Both: Both digital and non-digital work is carried out at the workplace
How employers support employees working outside the workplace
Think about how working outside the workplace affects the following matters in your workplace
Assess how well your workplace's occupational safety practices function in work outside the workplace
The occupational safety and health panel is a survey that is targeted at the occupational safety and health personnel and focuses on topics of current interest related to work life. The theme for 2022 was occupational safety and health and work outside the workplace.
Description
The results are based on the occupational safety and health panel, an electronic survey about occupational safety and health activities and topical matters related to current workplace activities and well-being sent once a year to a set of people in the occupational safety and health personnel register. The theme for 2022 was occupational safety and health and work outside the workplace.The purpose of the occupational safety and health panel is to support the occupational safety and health personnel’s work: the results give tips on the matters to which attention should be paid at workplaces. The survey also provides information on the current state of work life in Finnish workplaces.
The panel is carried out in co-operation between the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and the Finnish Centre for Occupational Safety.
What the graphs present
The graphs present the occupational safety officers and representatives' own assessment of occupational safety and health in work outside the workplace.The data consists of a survey conducted in November-December 2022, in which 372 people answered questions related to work outside the workplace. 64% of the respondents were occupational safety representatives and 35% were occupational safety officers.
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Occupational safety and health panel provides current information
The survey provides information about the phenomena, demands and trends of workplaces related to occupational safety and health.
Differences and similarities in occupational safety management between digital and non-digital work outside the workplace
In work outside the workplace, regular communications is a key means of supporting the staff's safety and well-being at work
Impact of climate change on occupational safety has not yet been widely identified
Approximately every second workplace has recognized the effects of climate change at the workplace, but they have not been dealt with from the point of view of occupational safety