Occupational chemical exposures and cardiovascular disease

New criteria document from the Nordic Expert Group Occupational chemical exposures and cardiovascular disease Article related to the NIVA course on Chemical Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease, 27th – 29th of April 2021 at Soria Moria Hotel, Oslo, Norway The main task of the Nordic Expert Group for Criteria Documentation of Health Risks from Chemicals (NEG) is … Continued

“It is not widely known how good personnel management has huge productivity potential, making it an under-exploited resource”

Course leader presentation: Guy Ahonen The Economics of Occupational Safety and Health2nd – 4th of February 2021, Quality Hotel The View, Malmö, Sweden What is your background? I am former professor of human resource accounting at Hanken Business School in Helsinki and former research professor at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), responsible for … Continued

“There is a need to revisit the approaches for transferring occupational health and safety research knowledge into practice”

Course leader presentation: Ulrik Gensby From Research to Practice in Occupational Health and Safety 7th – 9th of September 2020, Lysebu hotel, Oslo area, Norway What is your background? My engagement in occupational health and safety research is driven by a global vision of building capacity in workplaces to prevent and manage work disability. I … Continued

Report on New forms of work among young people

Report on New forms of work among young people: Implications for the working environment Changes in the labour market globally and in the Nordic countries entail new forms of work and atypical employment for young workers. The young people portrayed in the present report are between 21 and 30 years old, and they represent a wide … Continued

Labour inspection in the age of digitalization – cognitive and other aspects

Labour inspection in the age of digitalization – cognitive and other aspects Article related to the NIVA course Labour Inspection in the Age of Digitalization, 19th – 21st of November 2019 at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Stockholm, Sweden Carin Håkansta, Senior Analyst, Swedish Work Environment Authority, Sweden Digitalization has changed the way we live and how we … Continued

“Automation, digitalisation and robots are transforming our societies and lives – including work”

Course leader presentation: Carin Håkansta Labour Inspection in the Age of Digitalization 19th – 22nd of November 2019, Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Stockholm, Sweden What is your background? I am Senior Analyst at the Swedish Work Environment Agency (SWEA) in Stockholm, Sweden. I also work for Karlstad University and Karolinska Institute, where I teach and … Continued

“Risk-based OHS Enforcement is one of the best means to reach compliance and to protect employee health”

Course leader presentation: Håkon A. Johannessen Risk-based OHS Enforcement, 30th – 31st of October 2019, National Institute of Occupational Health STAMI, Oslo, Norway Håkon A. Johannessen is a research scientist at the National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI) in Norway. Johannessen has an MSc in sociology and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Oslo. … Continued