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Workplace Assessment and Well-Being Survey

The Workplace Assessment process is a statutory process in Denmark to ensure that we solve and prevent health and safety problems. This is also a highly prioritised process at SDU.

 

Workplace assessment process at SDU 

The workplace assessment (often called APV, arbejdspladsvurdering, in Danish) is a key tool in the systematic health and safety efforts. It’s a statutory process in Denmark to ensure that we solve and prevent health and safety problems. 

Ongoing workplace assessments

Workplace assessments should be ongoing and if there are health and safety risks or issues, we need to assess the severity and decide how to deal with them. We also need to decide who is responsible for ensuring that risks are addressed through prevention and that health and safety issues are resolved, as well as when and how we follow up on whether our actions are working. As part of the workplace assessments, we must prepare written action plans that are accessible to employees. The action plans must be presented to the Danish Working Environment Authority if they come to visit.

Workplace assessment and well-being surveys are conducted every three years

At least every three years, we are obliged to get an overview of the work environment in all parts of the organisation. 

At SDU, the Workplace Assessment and Well-Being Survey is conducted as a collective questionnaire survey. The results are processed by departments and areas in the Central Administration as well as by the health and safety and liaison committees and the Board of SDU. Action plans are created, and we follow up on whether health and safety challenges are resolved. 

The workplace assessment process is conducted by SDU’s health and safety groups and SDU HR’s health and safety team. All levels of the organisation are involved and it’s a transparent process where the results of the survey and action plans are available to all employees. 

The Workplace Assessment and Well-Being Survey is anchored in a steering committee with representatives from the University’s management and employees, the general occupational health and safety committee and central liaison committees. 

To read more about SDU’s Workplace Assessment and Well-Being Survey, click the link below.

Last Updated 08.10.2024