Occupational health care action plan
The employer and the provider of occupational health care services prepare an occupational health care action plan based on a workplace survey and the health risks identified in it.
The results of the workplace’s own risk assessment must also be taken into account when preparing the action plan. This ensures that the content of the action plan is based on the needs of the workplace and includes the measures essential to supporting work ability and preventing work ability problems.
The action plan must be reviewed in cooperation with the employees in the occupational safety and health committee or with the occupational safety and health representative, for example.
The action plan includes the contact details of the parties implementing the occupational health care service, the needs of the workplace and the goals of the activities, as well as the means of implementing occupational health care and those responsible for it:
- a plan for carrying out workplace surveys, their locations and schedule
- statutory health checks: whom they apply to, what they contain and how often they are performed
- any voluntary health checks: whom they apply to, what they contain and how often they performed
- providing information, advice and guidance; how the activities are monitored and evaluated at the individual and group levels.
The action plan also describes
- occupational health care activities in detecting the need for early support and providing support, in monitoring sickness absences and in preparing and presenting reports on the health and work ability situation at the workplace
- occupational health care cooperation and practices regarding support for work ability with operators outside the workplace.
If the employer offers medical care services to its employees in addition to the statutory preventive occupational health care, the scope and content of these services are specified
in the action plan.
The occupational health care action plan is revised annually. The employer and employees assess the occupational health care activities and their effectiveness in cooperation with the occupational health care provider. In this context, changes can be made to the following year’s action plan on the basis of, for example, new investigations or surveys carried out at the workplace.