Sitemap

• Work environment work and inspections
  • Work with the work environment
    • Work with the work environment
    • Tips and guidance for your work environment management
    • Management systems
    • Safety culture
    • Gender equality in the work environment
  • Responsibility for the work environment
    • Report serious personal injuries, serious incidents and deaths
    • The work environment responsibility of politicians
    • For employers of young people in working life
      • Working tasks for young people
      • Working hours for young people
      • Practical training for young people
    • Work environment responsibility in schools
    • Foreign labor in the green industries
  • Employee participation in work environment management
    • New to the job
    • Young in work life
      • Work environment in different sectors
      • Risks in the work environment for young people
    • Employment agency employee
    • Foreign workers in agriculture and forestry
  • Safety representatives
    • Request for action on working conditions and working hours
    • Examples of 6:6 a requests to the employer
    • Suspension of work by safety representatives(6 kap 7§)
    • Pupil influence through the student safety representative
  • Acts and regulations about work environment
    • The Work Environment Act
      • About the Work Environment Act
    • The Working Hours Act
      • The Working Hours Act
      • About the Working Hours Act
        • Apply for an exemption from the Working hours act
    • The Domestic Work Act
    • The Posting of Workers Act
  • An accessible work environment
    • Risks and measures for an accessible work environment
    • Responsibility for accessibility
    • Preventive work for an accessible work environment
  • Inspections, investigations and checks
    • Inspection
      • What happens during an inspection?
      • How is the selection made?
    • Market surveillance
      • Reporting dangerous or defective products
  • Fines, penalties and sanction fees
    • Sanction fees
    • Company fines
  • Foreign workers in Sweden
    • Posting
      • Employer’s obligations
      • Posted worker's rights and obligations
      • Recipient’s of services obligations
      • The Swedish labour market model and collective agreements
      • Statistics on posting
    • Application for professional qualification
      • Use of biocidal products, class 1
      • Medical check-ups
      • Diving work
      • Blasting leaders
  • Publications
    • Provisions
    • Brochures
    • Books
    • Presentations
    • Reports
  • Knowledge compilations
  • E-services and forms
• Health and safety
  • Work posture and workload – ergonomics
  • Noise
    • Prevent noise
      • Noise from machines
  • Electromagnetic fields
  • Pregnancy and breastfeeding
  • Genetic engineering – contained use of GMMs
    • Notification and permission for GMMs
  • Chemical risks and airbourne patricles
    • Permits
      • Chemical permits
        • Chemical substances, group A
        • Chemical substances, group B
    • Plant protection products and other pesticides
      • Prevention - protect yourself against plant protection products
      • Prevention - use the correct sprayer
  • Laser
  • Medical check-ups and health assessments in working life
  • Mental ill health, stress, threats and violence
    • Threats and violence
      • Robbery, threats and violence in shops
      • Questions and answers about threats and violence
    • Bullying
      • Prevent sexual harassment
      • Questions and answers about bullying
  • Diseases, infection and microbiological risks
    • Risk of diseases in the workplace
      • Main risks of infection
      • Responsibility for risks of infection in the work environment
      • Preventive measures against risks of infection
      • More information about infectious risk in the work environment
      • Coronavirus and workplace safety and health
        • Systematic work environment management and risk assessment
        • Document and report exposure to covid-19
        • Personal protective equipment (PPE)
    • Serious incidents in relation to infectious risk
  • Vibrations
• Production, industry and logistics
  • Work with animals
  • Asbestos
    • Permits, notifications and forms concerning asbestos
      • Application for demolition of asbestos or materials containing asbestos
      • Application for machining or treatment of asbestos or materials containing asbestos
      • Application for authorisation to handle asbestos or material containing asbestos in research, development or analysis
      • Reporting removal of asbestos
      • Reporting working or processing of asbestos
  • Building and civil engineering work
    • Risks with building and civil engineering work
      • Work environment plan and its risks
        • Falls from height - work that is carried out at heights of over two metres
        • Excavation work with a risk of collapse
        • Chemical and biological substances
        • Work near high voltage power lines
        • Work with risks of drowning
        • Underground work – tunnels, wells, pipes
        • Work with diving equipment
        • Work in caisson
        • Work with heavy construction components and prefabricated elements
        • Work beside roads and railways
        • Demolition of load-bearing structures and health-endangering materials
      • Physical risks
      • Psychosocial work environment risks
    • Responsibility during building and civil engineering work
    • Work environment plan
    • Preventing risks at construction sites
      • Prior notification of construction site
      • If something happens at the construction site
      • To think about during construction work
    • Questions and answers about building and civil engineering work
    • Snow clearance
  • Vehicles
    • Forklift trucks
  • Agriculture and Forestry
    • Agriculture
      • Primary risks within agriculture
      • Responsibilities for work environment in agriculture
      • Prevent risks in agriculture
      • Accident statistics in agriculture
      • Inspections in agriculture
      • Questions and answers about agriculture
      • Other actors in agriculture
    • Forestry
      • Risks in forestry
      • Responsibility for the work environment in forestry
      • Prevent risks in forestry
      • In-depth about forestry
      • Questions and answers about forestry
  • Work with explosives
  • Scaffolding
    • Risks with the use of scaffolding
    • Responsibility during the handling of scaffolds
    • Preventive work with scaffolding
    • Questions and answers about scaffolding
• About us
  • Contact
    • Contact by email
    • Tips or make an employee report
  • Organisation
    • Management Group
    • Administration and Analysis
    • HR
    • Inspection
    • Legal Affairs and International Affairs
    • Communication
    • Our regional offices
    • Regulations
    • Joint Authority Control
  • Our task
    • Our activities
  • Work with regulations and provisions
  • Our international work
  • Press
  • About our website
    • Processing of personal data at the Swedish Work Environment Authority
      • Request for register extract under the General Data Protection Regulation
    • Cookies
    • Sitemap