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. It provides information about the phenomena, demands and trends visible at workplaces to support everyday work.
Description
The purpose of the survey 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 about the status of current topics related to work life at Finnish workplaces.A short electronic survey is sent once a year to a sample extracted from the occupational safety and health personnel register. The survey focuses on occupational safety and health activities and topical matters related to workplace activities and well-being at work at each particular moment.
The occupational safety and health panel is carried out in co-operation by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and the Centre for Occupational Safety.
What the indicators describe
The indicators describe occupational safety officers’ or occupational safety representatives’ own assessment of the development of occupational safety and health activities in different areas. The results of the occupational safety and health panel can also be compared between employees in the public and private sectors. The data consists of surveys carried out at the end of the year as follows:| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answers | 597 | 545 | 521 | 572 | 533 |
| Occupational safety manager | 33 % | 35% | 29% | 35% | 41% |
| Occupational safety representatives | 65 % | 64% | 70% | 64% | 57% |
| Private employers | 67 % | 71% | 78% | 66% | 59% |
| Public or other employers | 32 % | 28% | 21% | 33% | 41% |
The data is updated annually.
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Further information about the dataset
Occupational safety and health activities during the COVID-19 situation
The occupational safety and health panel provides information about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the workplace and how successfully the situation has been managed.
Occupational safety and health and climate change
According to the 2021 Occupational Safety and Health Panel, 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
Occupational safety and health and work outside the workplace
More than half of the workplaces have agreed on basic rules regarding work outside the workplace
Occupational safety and health and psychosocial factors
Psychosocial stress factors are identified, but their management is perceived as challenging.
Occupational safety and health and artificial intelligence
The majority of workplaces are in the early stages of using generative artificial intelligence.