Doctor’s notification

In certain cases, doctors are required to report illnesses or diseases that may be related to work or the working environment. Such notifications must be sent to the Swedish Work Environment Authority.

As a doctor, you must, for example, report illnesses or diseases, symptoms and problems that:

point to poor working conditions or inadequate procedures for work adaptation and rehabilitation;
have affected many people doing a certain type of work (when this number is greater than expected, or more than usual for this type of work or at a certain workplace);
become more common over time;
may be caused by exposure to carcinogens or mutagenic substances; or
are new, unexpected or unusual and can be linked to the work done by the patient.

You can read more about this in Section 2 of the Swedish Work Environment Ordinance.

Work Environment Ordinance (Swedish)

Description of the process

Description of Doctor's notification

1. Organisation and workplace

State the name of the employer. State, if possible, in which of the organisation’s workplaces work has been performed that led to the suspected link between work and ill health. Please also provide the address of this workplace.

2. Illness, disease or problem

Describe the person’s illness or disease, change in health, disorder, symptoms, etc.

Provide your diagnosis, using the National Board of Health and Welfare’s health classifications, where possible.

3. Working conditions

Describe the working conditions, working environment and/or any factors in the working environment that may be related to the illness, disease or disorder. For example, such factors may be technical (tools etc.), physical (e.g. temperature) or chemical (e.g. substances and materials). They may also relate to working methods, working hours, or social or other circumstances, whether individually or in combination.

4. Factors giving rise to a suspected link

Specify the circumstances supporting your suspicion of a possible link between the illness, disease or disorder and the working environment.

5. Number of people affected, age and gender

Specify the number of people affected.

Click ‘Add field’ to add more people of different ages and genders.

Number

Age

Female

Male

Delete

Add field

6. Details of the person notifying

Provide your name E-mail address Provide your address

Phone number

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Last updated 2021-12-07

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