Occupational safety and health panel provides current information

The occupational safety and health panel is a survey that is targeted at the occupational safety and health personnel and focuses on current topics 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 on 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 has been conducted since 2012. The 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 managers’ 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 survey data consists of the surveys conducted in November 2019 (533 responses), October–November 2020 (572 responses) and October–November 2021 (521 responses). In 2019, 41% of the respondents were occupational safety managers and 57% occupational safety representatives, with 314 in the private sector and 219 in the public sector. In 2020, 35% of the respondents were occupational safety managers and 64% occupational safety representatives, with 191 in the private sector and 377 in the public sector. In 2021, 29% of the respondents were occupational safety managers and 71% occupational safety representatives, with 341 in the private sector and 178 in the public sector. The data is updated annually.