The Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Employer's Responsibilities
Under the Work Environment Act, employers are responsible for preventing health problems and creating a safe, secure, and sustainable work environment. Hartic helps organizations take a more systematic and research-based approach to the work environment through ongoing surveys, organizational analyses, and follow-up over time.
Workplace safety is a legal responsibility
The Work Environment Act requires employers to take a preventive and systematic approach to the work environment. Work environment efforts must be a natural part of business operations and must encompass both the physical work environment and the organizational and social factors that affect people’s health and working conditions.
This involves, among other things, continuously assessing the work environment, identifying risks and areas for improvement, implementing measures, and monitoring progress over time. For many organizations, it is a challenge to address these issues in a structured and consistent manner in practice.
Hartic helps organizations develop a more systematic and research-based approach to workplace health and safety through employee surveys, Pulse surveys organizational analyses that make it easier to understand the workplace environment and prioritize the right initiatives.
How Hartic supports systematic work environment management
Systematic work environment management involves investigating, risk assessing, implementing measures, and monitoring the work environment over time. Hartic supports the entire process, from current status and insight to development and follow-up.
Through continuous measurements and organizational analyses, Hartic helps organizations work more proactively with the work environment and organizational health instead of merely reacting when problems have already arisen.
Organizational and Social Work Environment (OSA)
A significant part of today’s work environment revolves around organizational and social factors. Workload, clarity, collaboration, leadership, recovery, and psychological safety all influence both people’s well-being and the long-term sustainability of organizations.
Hartic’s method helps organizations understand how employees perceive their work environment and identify both risk areas and positive factors in the workplace. Through continuous monitoring, it becomes easier to detect changes over time and develop a more long-term and sustainable approach to workplace health and safety.
Based on research and modern occupational safety regulations
Hartic’s method is based on established research in occupational health and safety, organizational psychology, and sustainable work life. Our research framework draws inspiration from sources such as QPSNordic, the Danish Psychosocial Questionnaire (DPQ), and research on psychological safety, motivation, and sustainable performance.
This means that Hartic does not merely measure job satisfaction or engagement, but also organizational factors that influence the work environment, culture, leadership, and sustainable development over time.
The method has been developed to support organizations in their systematic health and safety efforts in accordance with the Swedish Work Environment Authority’s regulations and to contribute to a more continuous and actionable approach to health and safety.
A more modern approach to workplace safety
Many organizations find that workplace safety and health efforts tend to become administrative, reactive, and difficult to monitor on a day-to-day basis. Hartic is designed to make workplace safety and health efforts easier to understand, simpler to monitor, and more effective over time.
By combining research, data, and organizational insight, Hartic helps organizations to:
- Identify organizational risks early on.
- Continuously monitor workplace conditions.
- Create a better foundation for dialogue and improvement.
- Take a more preventive approach to work-related health issues.
- Strengthen organizational health and sustainable performance.
Do you want to strengthen your workplace environment efforts?
Contact us and we will explain how Hartic can support your work with workplace environment, SAM (Systematic Work Environment Management), and organizational health.