Indoor environment and building-related ill health
Problems in indoor environments are complex and can adversely affect both people and the organisation. Building related ill health means that people may experience more or less transient discomfort or discomfort when staying in a specific building or part of a building. The symptoms can be for example eye and respiratory symptoms, skin symptoms, fatigue or headache.
Other factors that affect the experience of the indoor environment are e.g. unpleasant odor, dirt and dust or too high or too low room temerature.
Remember to regularly and systematically examine the work environment in the workplace to also discover shortcomings in the indoor environment.
Campus management
- Recieves and forward error reports in accordance with current campus routines.
- Has information about which premises can be used as intended or not and informs about this to Uppsala University's lease agreement management.
- Coordinates possible evacuations with the departments.
Head of department/equivalent
- Is always responsible for the employees' work environment at the department/equivalent.
- Responsible for ensuring that faults are reported to property owners and/or campus management in the event of suspicion of building-related ill health.
- Responsible for continuously informing employees and safety representatives in matters concerning building-related ill health.
- Responsible for ordering a medical examination of employees at the occupational health service where it is deemed relevant.
Occupational health service
- Is responsible for participating in the problem-solving process regarding building-related ill health after an ordering from the Head of department/equivalent.
- Following and order from the Head of department/equivalent the occupational health service is responsible for carrying out a medical examination of the employee's health
Information about Falck, how to book appointments, prices etc.
Occupational health specialist
- Responsible for informing Head of department/equivalent and property owners about matters concerning building-related ill health that goes directly to the occupational health specialist.
- Acts as a support to the Head of department/equivalent and safety representatives during the investigation concerning building-related ill health.
Property owners
- Responsible for the property and for receiving and processing error reports regarding buildning-related ill health.
- Responsible for conductin in-depth invesigations in the building where it is deemed relevant.
- Responsible for reporting the results of remedied fault report and/or in-depth investigations of the property to the Head of department/equivalent and the campus manager.
- Responsible for taking measures related to technical systems and documenting this.
- Responsible for informing Uppsala univerity's occupational health specialist about matters/error reports that concerns building-related ill health.
Safety representative
- Represent the employees in work environment issues and shall be included as a support for the employees in investigations of building-related ill health (among other things).
- Is working for a good work environment conditions in accordance with the work environment legislation.
- Has the right to participate and comment on changes, alterations and planning that are important from a work environment point of view.
- Recive information about the investigation's progress in cases concerning building-related ill health.
Contact:
Anna Maria Näslund, Occupational health specialist