How can we better promote psychosocial working conditions in Nordic workplaces?

As part of the Nordic Overview of Organization-level Psychosocial Interventions project (NOOPI), we invite researchers, labour inspectorates, occupational health care professionals, labour market organizations, social security providers, consultants, and other stakeholders to a webinar presenting preliminary findings from our ongoing work.

The project aims to provide a Nordic overview of organizational-level interventions intended to improve the psychosocial work environment in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In addition to scientific literature, the project also includes grey literature and reports published in Nordic languages in order to capture knowledge and experiences that are often not included in peer-reviewed publications.

In this webinar, we will present preliminary findings from the systematic literature search and address questions such as: 

• Why do a Nordic overview?
• What types of interventions have been studied in Nordic countries?
• What are the similarities and differences between countries?
• What seems important for successful implementation?
• How do the studies link to national regulation and policy approaches?
• What can be learned from existing Nordic experiences?

Program

• Welcome and introduction, Laura Salonen, project leader and Senior Researcher, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
• The NOOPI project and preliminary Nordic findings, Laura Salonen, project leader and Senior Researcher, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
• Examples and lessons from identified Nordic intervention studies, Birgit Aust, Senior Researcher, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark and Gun Johansson, Researcher, Karolinska Institutet and The Centre of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Sweden
• Comments from invited discussants
  • Karoline Grødal, Senior Adviser, Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority
  • Mikko Henriksson, Senior Specialist, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
• Open discussion

The webinar is organized by Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (Finland), Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmiljø (NFA, Denmark), Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt (STAMI, Norway) and Centrum för arbets- och miljömedicin, Region Stockholm (CAMM) and Karolinska Institutet (Sweden).