"A risk observation could be an incorrectly placed chemical or an unclear instruction. An incident: a lamp falls from the ceiling in the middle of the workplace, but no one is injured because no one was sitting there at the time. An occupational injury could be exposure to a dangerous substance that has led to eczema. Or that an employee who is on sick leave on a half-time basis states that the reason is a constant high workload and a lack of resources to meet the demands of the work. Another example is an employee who is in a hurry to a meeting and falls down the stairs and breaks his arm.”
Get help
As an employee, you report what has happened by logging in to the IA system. A link to the IA system can be found on Intramed. If you need help with the report, you should talk to your immediate manager, safety representative or work environment coordinator and they can help you with the report. It is possible to report afterwards, but then the benefit is that the event is included in the statistics. As time passes it often becomes more difficult to work with investigation, measures and follow-ups.
Violations and discrimination
"If you feel that you have been subjected to harassment or discriminationt, you should tell your manager about it so that the management have the opportunity to do something about it. If it is your manager who you think has violated you, you must tell your manager's manager”.
You can ask for a meeting with the manager, write down your story in an email to the manager or report it in the IA system. There are no formal requirements for how you tell the manager. The important thing is that the manager knows what has happened and how you experienced it so that the manager can do something about it. If you do not know who your manager is, talk to the Head of Department, Head of Division or an equivalent. You are welcome to bring a support person, such as union support or a safety representative, with you when you tell them about what you have been through.
"This also needs to be added to the IA system for the sake of statistics, but you do not have to do it yourself. It can be done by the manager or the safety representative. It is important that no names are revealed, and the info is anonymized!”