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Newsletter 1/2021

10 guidelines for the promotion of equality in recruitment

Recruitment practices promoting diversity may prove to be a practical solution to the lack of applicants while also reducing unintentional discrimination.

Discrimination in the recruitment process can be prevented by reforming recruitment practices. Recruitment practices promoting diversity were published in the Manifold More project of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

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Work engagement may decrease the risk of unemployment and incapacity for work

Study: When an employee experiences work engagement, the benefits are apparent in the individual’s life as well as in society in general.

Work engagement was discovered to have a positive effect in the labour market.

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FIOH guidelines for workplaces to prevent coronavirus infection

These instructions are intended for conducting a risk assessment at a workplace in order to identify the dangers related to COVID-19 infections. If activities of the workplace pose a risk of exposure to COVID-19, the employer must define the likelihood, nature, number and duration of employee exposure.

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New articles

3D-printing requires risk management at the workplaces

Material extrusion desktop 3D printing is known to strongly emit nanoparticles, and the need for risk management has been recognized widely.

Different emission control methods were studied for desktop 3D-printers. A simple enclosure over the printer was found to be very effective.

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Work disability may originate early during work history and involve repeated sickness absences and eventually permanent disability

This process was studied in a long-term follow-up of municipal employees, exploring first the various predictors of 5-year sickness absence trajectories, and continuing to the 10-year risk of disability retirement which closely associated with the trajectories.

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