Occupational Health and Safety Organisation (AMO)

The formal responsibility for DTU’s working environment rests with the management. In practice, a good working environment is created in a dialogue between management and employees as an ordinary part of the day-to-day work at DTU. The dialogue has been systematized via DTU’s occupational health and safety organization, consisting organizationally of the Corporate Work Environmental Committee at DTU corporate level, a network of occupational health and safety coordinators across the University entities, as well as of work environmental committees and occupational health and safety groups at University entity level. The occupational health and safety organization has interfaces with the Cooperation and Joint Consultation Committee and local collaboration committees. CAS AB and AHR support DTU’s occupational health and safety organization with secretariat services, as well as advice on the physical and psychological working environment. 

DTU’s overall occupational health and safety (OHS) organization (AMO) consists of the Corporate Work Environmental Committee which is composed of managers, employees, and students. The OHS coordinator network (AMK) consists of 30 OHS coordinators—one from each University unit. Each University unit has a Work Environmental Committee headed by the entity’s senior manager and with representation from the entity’s OHS groups, as well as possibly 1-2 student representatives. Each University unit has one or more OHS groups consisting of a work supervisor and an OHS representative.

The Corporate Work Environmental Committee is responsible for laying down the overall strategic framework for the working environment and for preparing cross-organizational working environment actions and initiatives at DTU. The OHS coordinator network handles the coordination of the OHS work across the University units. In addition, each OHS coordinator is responsible—together with the Work Environmental Committee and OHS groups—for supporting a healthy and safe working environment with high job satisfaction and well-being locally in the individual University unit.

The local OHS groups in the individual University units regularly handle the day-to-day dialogue on local working environment tasks, and working environment problems can be identified, e.g. via observation, sister screening, accident reporting, and APV (work place assessment). The working environment problems which cannot immediately be resolved are submitted by the OHS groups to the University unit's Work Environmental Committee for discussion. The individual Work Environmental Committee may have working environment problems which cannot be resolved locally and may submit such issues to the OHS coordinator network for discussion. If there is general recognition in the OHS coordinator network of the working environmental problem across DTU’s university units, the network may choose to submit the problem to the Corporate Work Environmental Committee.