RESEARCH INFORMATION

Work-related stress is especially dangerous for men with medical conditions

According to a wide-ranging international study, work-related stress is especially dangerous for men with diabetes that has required hospital treatment, or men who have suffered a heart attack or stroke.

A study carried out in Finland, France, Sweden, and Britain followed over 100 000 participants from 1985–2002.

FIOH works actively to promote human biomonitoring in Europe

FIOH is contributing to a large EU initiative on human biomonitoring, HBM4EU (www.hbm4eu.eu).

FIOH coordinates a task related to the inclusion of human biomonitoring data in risk assessment/health impact assessment strategies.

Silent signals from work data: profiling conditions, not individuals

Is it possible to utilize digital footprint of work, work data, to design better working conditions?

We define work data as event traces, event logs, which are gathered in IT-systems continuously and in the future even more.

Most Finns sleep well or fairly well

According to recent research more than 70 per cent of working age Finns sleep well or fairly well based on a long term follow-up research study.

The cohort study conducted by FIOH and University of Helsinki followed the sleep quality of more than 4 800 persons over the course of 36 years. Save the date!

Join the Vision Zero 2019 Summit

Vision Zero is a strategy and a holistic mindset, that leads our safety thinking. It is continuous improvement and learning, not just a numerical goal.

Come to Helsinki on 12 – 14 November 2019 to share your experiences and ideas on Vision Zero and how to put safety in practice!