Mission
To promote work safety and health as part of good living.
Vision 2010
The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health is renowned in Finland and abroad as a specialist institute on occupational health and safety, and is in demand as a partner organization. Thanks to intervention models developed by the Institute, Finns stay on at work for longer than before. The Institute itself is an exemplary and sought after workplace.
Values
Our organizational values are effectiveness, reliability and partnership. Connected to these are expertise, respect and trust, which we consider correct guidelines for working together.
Strategic goals
Together with our partners and clients, we seek out the most effective solutions for promoting occupational health and safety. Our strategic goals are:
- The management of occupational health hazards at work as part of management practices and corporate risk management
- Innovative, regenerative and healthy work communities
- Each citizen equipped to ensure his or her occupational safety and well-being
- Providing authorities with information for promoting occupational safety and health
- Smoothly flowing work processes, safe and easy to use working methods and tools
- Solutions for increasing participation in work life
- Controlling new occupational hazards, exploiting new opportunities.
Structures and modes of operation
From the beginning of 2006, the six Centres of Expertise are the fundamental units of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. They consist of Thematic Areas, Teams and Units of Excellence. The Thematic Areas produce social innovations that meet the needs of work life in Finland. Teams concentrate on solving a clearly defined work life problem or serving a client group central to improving occupational safety and health. Units of Excellence carry out top-level research in well-targeted areas with the aim of producing scientific innovations. Our Regional Offices offer services to our clients throughout the country. We combine research and development, specialist advisory services, training and dissemination of information, as well as marketing to construct an innovative mode of operation.
We create solutions for our clients, and learn and develop together with our partners. At the same time, we create an overview of the needs of work life, and gather feed-back to help guide our operations. The Centre of Expertise for Internal Services produces support services for the other Centres of Expertise according to the principle of internal partnership.
Staff well-being and skills
Our highly skilled and motivated personnel are constantly in the process of improving their expertise; they are the cornerstone of our operations. We continue to develop our expertise and reform our management practices to ensure that our operations can best cater to the clients' needs and help them to find the best solutions. We strive to ensure that staff pay levels are competitive: more emphasis will be placed on the fact that good results are obtained through effective cooperation.
Resources and funding
Our aim is to keep our total resources at the present level, at about 600 work-year equivalents entitled to state subsidies, and about 200 work-year equivalents funded entirely from our own income. During the strategy period, resources will be channelled from the areas of work environment and health and from support services to the area of work organizations.