“A positive approach to diversity will serve to improve effectiveness and performance”

Course leader Presentation: Annette Risberg Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace, 11th – 13th of June 2019, Quality Hotel View, Malmö, Sweden Presentation of Annette Risberg, PhD, Professor at Copenhagen Business School, DK and Norway Inland University of Applied Sciences, NO I have taught and studied diversity in organizations for the last ten years and more. I … Continued

“The possibility to utilize AI in analyzing big data gives new ways of approaching silent signals of safety”

Course leader presentation: Tuula Räsänen Safety Promotion – Research and Good Practice, 7th – 9th of May 2019, Hanasaari/Hanaholmen, Espoo, Finland Presentation of Tuula Räsänen, Senior expert at Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Solutions for safety Tuula Räsänen (sociologist and PhD – Tampere University of Technology) has been involved in safety promotion since 1986 in … Continued

“The need to create a good work environment where employees can thrive and perform well is crucial to organizations”

Course leader presentation: Karina Nielsen Designing, implementing and evaluating organizational interventions, 13th – 15th of May 2019, Hotel Copenhagen Island, Copenhagen, Denmark Presentation of Karina Nielsen, Professor, Director of the Institute for Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK: I am a work psychologist and did my PhD in Applied Psychologist at the University of Nottingham. … Continued

“A lot of new research challenges some of the traditional ways of approaching safety promotion”

Course leader presentation: Pete Kines Safety Promotion – Research and Good Practice, 7th – 9th of May 2019, Hanaholmen/Hanasaari, Espoo (Helsinki area), Finland Presentation of Pete Kines, Senior scientific researcher, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment Pete Kines (psychologist and PhD-civil engineering) has been involved in safety promotion since 1996 in both traffic and … Continued

“It is important to discuss what kind of information is actually trustworthy and who we can label as being credible experts”

Course leader presentation: Jani Ruotsalainen Finding and Implementing Scientific Evidence – a core element in OSH expertise, 10th – 12th of April 2019, National and University Library of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Presentation of Jani Ruotsalainen, Managing Editor, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health I am a research psychologist by training and I have been working in … Continued

Suzanne Stannard: “An illness or injury that may be ‘minor’ on shore may become an emergency on board”

Course leader presentation: Suzanne Stannard Managing Medical Emergencies at Sea: Risks and responses, 30th of October – 1st of November, 2018, Hotel Marienlyst, Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark 1. What is your background? A short presentation of yourself. Since 2014 I have been working as a Medical adviser in the Norwegian Centre of Maritime and Diving Medicine … Continued

“The workshop is important because it presents how work well-being can be approached from an economic point of view”

Course leader presentation: Guy Ahonen The Economics of Occupational Safety and Health, 6th – 8th of November 2018, Park Inn by Radisson Uppsala, Sweden Guy Ahonen is previous professor of Knowledge Management, especially Human Resource Accounting, at Hanken School of Economics (Hanken), and Research Professor at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) in Finland. He has been Director of the Research … Continued