Cooperation and working environment organization

The cooperation and working environment organization has responsibility for and the roles to inform each other about and discuss workplace matters. The focus is on advancing working environment efforts, so that DTU continually meets the Danish Working Environment Act workplace OHS requirements in a constructive dialogue between management and employees.

Cooperation representative

All cooperation representatives are expected to work towards putting well-being on the agenda. This could be by drawing attention to well-being in the formal forums they participate in, or by creating opportunities to talk about well-being in the work setting. Dialogue can be between individuals or between groups, in order to stimulate more knowledge sharing and well-being across DTU.

Cooperation representatives are not expected to address well-being challenges on their own. However, it is expected that cooperation representatives, in their dialogue with the management, will want to share how employees perceive the working environment.

Occupational health and safety representative (AMR)

Each university unit has one or more occupational health and safety groups, responsible for the day-to-day tasks relating to health and safety. The OHS representative role is filled by employees who want to contribute actively to a safe and healthy working environment.

Occupational health and safety coordinator (AMK)

Each university unit has a health and safety coordinator appointed by management. The function of the health and safety coordinator is to help management structure and coordinate working environment efforts in ongoing cooperation with the OHS organization.

The AMK is responsible for documenting how the unit works systematically with well-being. For example, the AMK in Safetynet documents the organizational learning that has taken place in connection with executing and evaluating the unit’s DTU Well-being Dialogues. This learning could be input to recommendations on how the process can be planned next time, actors with which the working group has learned it is essential to have closer dialogue, working environment topics which the organization has an interest in working more systematically with, etc.

The documentation for the systematic approach to well-being is partial fulfilment of DTU’s legal requirement to conduct an employee satisfaction survey, as described in the cooperation agreement with the Danish Government. It may also be relevant to consult the documentation when visited by the Danish Working Environment Authority.