The Swedish Work Environment Authority is responsible for ensuring that workplaces in Sweden are safe, healthy, and well-functioning. To support employers in monitoring the more challenging aspects of the organisational and social work environment, Brilliant has developed an index that serves as a general indicator of how things are working. This helps make risk assessments easier and enables employers to identify teams that may need extra support at an earlier stage.
Questions
- Do you generally have an acceptable stress level in your work?
- Do you have enough recovery time between working days?
- Do you receive support when you have a heavy workload?
- Do you have the prerequisites you need to do a good job?
- Can you influence your work situation?
- Do you feel that all employees have the same opportunities and duties regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation, or age?
Reporting
The index result is presented as an average score on a scale from 0 to 100 and includes team-level feedback for managers and a trend line with options for comparison against benchmarks and higher-level organisational groups.
Index results are categorised into different intervals, each with an associated colour and description.
(87-100) Great, a healthy and positive work environment
(69-86) Good, a sound and solid work environment
(49-68) Improvements required, this should be top priority
(0-48) Attention, critical to act on weak areas immediately
No results due to anonymity
📌 Read more about indexes and how they are calculated here
Background
The Swedish Work Environment Authority is responsible for ensuring that workplaces in Sweden are safe, healthy, and well-functioning. The agency develops and maintains regulations concerning health and safety at work. These regulations apply to all employers in Sweden, and it is the employer who holds the ultimate responsibility for ensuring compliance.
All individuals with an employment relationship are covered by these regulations: permanent employees, part-time workers, project-based staff, temporary agency workers, fixed-term employees, hourly staff, interns, and apprentices. Regardless of their job duties or the length of their employment, they are included under the rules.
The regulation of organisational and social work environment includes the following areas:
- Knowledge requirements for managers
- Requirements for goals for the organisational and social work environment
- Workload
- Working hours
- Victimization
The Swedish Work Environment Authority’s regulations describe what is regulated. How to comply is handled by the provisions on the Systematic Work Environment Management. The central activities within the Systematic Work Environment Management are:
- Examination of the organisation
- Assessment of the risks highlighted during the examination
- Actions to reduce risks
- Verification that the measures have contributed to a better working environment