Creating Sustainable Work Environments:
Key Conditions for Success

About this webinar

Sustainable work environments are essential for employee health, organisational stability and the long-term capacity of organisations to deliver key services. Yet many workplaces continue to struggle with turning existing knowledge about the organisational and social work environment into effective preventive measures in practice.

This webinar presents findings from the HAP research project, which examines how preventive work environment management can be organised and carried out at an organisational level. Drawing on empirical data from public and private organisations within education, health and social care, the session highlights common challenges that hinder preventive efforts, as well as the conditions that support successful and sustainable implementation.

Topics include the importance of organisational know-how, sufficient time, clear mandates, organisational support and
organisational learning processes in creating lasting improvements. The discussions will also address why preventive measures often fail to materialise in practice, despite legal obligations and extensive research on the links between working conditions, employee health, sickness absence and staff turnover.

Target groups

The webinar is relevant for employers, managers, HR professionals, occupational health services, researchers and policymakers interested in strengthening preventive work environment management and supporting more sustainable working conditions across sectors.

Lecturers

Magnus Åkerström, Research Leader and Associate Professor
Institute of Stress Medicine, Region Västra Götaland, and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Cathrine Reineholm, Associate Professor at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL), Division of Education and Sociology (APS), Linköping University, Sweden

Jonathan Severin, PhD Student
Institute of Stress Medicine, Region Västra Götaland, and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Contact person

Nora Tobiasson
Project Manager at NIVA
email: nora.tobiasson@niva.org