New organisational and social provision in Sweden

Since 2011 there is on-going work at the Swedish Work Environment Authority (SWEA) to come up with a new provision regulating the area of organisational and social conditions in the work environment. During the last 15 years SWEA has made two efforts to come up with new provisions in this area but on both occasions the work has been cancelled for various reasons. The aim of the work is to create prerequisites for a good work environment considering organisational, psychological and social factors by delivering a new general provision of the area. In addition to the provision guidance will be delivered with the aim to support and explain to the reader how to fulfill the provision. At the moment there are mainly two provisions and a general advice that cover the area; Victimization at Work, Patient Care in Private Homes and General Advice on Psychological and Social Aspects of the Work Environment. These provisions and general advice have not been revised the last 20-30 years so there is a need to make a thorough revision. Also, regulations considering prevention of unhealthy work related stress will be included in the new provision. The European Stress Agreement which has been signed by the parties on the Swedish labour market is used as one of the inspirational documents when producing the provision. Also, the European Framework Agreement on Harassment and Violence at Work is of interest for the work. Another document of interest is the former draft provision that was stopped 2004.