The Annual Safety and Health Review
As a company with one or more employees, you are required to hold an annual occupational safety and health review. During this meeting, management and staff jointly plan the coming year’s cooperation on occupational safety and health, and evaluate whether the goals set the previous year have been achieved. You are free to choose how the review is carried out, but you must be able to document to the Arbejdstilsynet (The Danish Working Environment Authority) that it has taken place, for example by keeping minutes of the meeting.
If your company does not have the resources to conduct the occupational safety and health review internally, we can facilitate the process together with you. We can help initiate preparations, facilitate the review itself, and manage any administrative tasks, including documentation, depending on your needs. We participate in the review as specialists in occupational safety and health, meaning you can ask us questions throughout and receive immediate, expert input to strengthen your discussions and decisions.
Ensure clarity and compliance with requirements for the annual safety and health reveiw
With Human House, you are guaranteed that every aspect of the annual review will be thoroughly addressed. It is crucial first to reflect on the previous year – special challenges, how cooperation is organised, whether competences are sufficient, and positive developments. At the same time, the legally required review must address the coming year – responsibilities, meeting frequency, new challenges, targets, training and development, and possible use of external advisers.
How we can assist you with the annual review
Invitation to the annual review
Professional facilitation of the review
Status on the working environment over the past year
Mapping competencies in your OSH organisation (AMO)
Support for future collaboration within the safety and health organisation (AMO)
Setting goals for safety and health
Status on competence development plans for the safety and health organisation
Who should participate in the annual occupational safety and health review?
The size of your company determines who must take part in the annual review. Find out more about the rules depending on whether your company has an safety and health organisation or not.
Companies with a safety and health organisation
Companies with more than 10 employees are required to establish a safety and health organisation (AMO).
The employer or a representative with authority to make decisions regarding occupational safety and health must carry out the review together with members of the safety and health organisation.
Companies without a safety and health organisation
In companies with 1–9 employees and no safety and health organisation (AMO), the employer or an authorised representative must carry out the review together with the employees.
What topics must the annual review cover?
The annual occupational safety and health review aims to systematise and focus your company’s efforts in the working environment.
During the review, you must cover the following:
What should be prioritised in the coming year?
When planning your cooperation on safety and health, use your current challenges as a starting point. Perhaps you are experiencing high work pressure, frequent heavy lifting, or new tasks. Your workplace assessment (APV) is a valuable tool to identify relevant focus areas.
How will your cooperation work in practice?
Decide how cooperation will function and how you will achieve your goals for safety and health. For example, you might agree to meet at set intervals or establish routines for keeping each other informed about progress.
Have last year’s goals been achieved?
You must assess whether you reached your previous goals. If, for instance, you aimed to halve the number of workplace accidents or reduce sickness absence, evaluate your results.
What are the new goals?
Set new targets for your safety and health work in the coming year. If you choose to focus on reducing noise or manual lifting, define specific targets, such as reducing noise through office layout changes or eliminating certain manual handling tasks.
Do you have the necessary knowledge?
Discuss whether your company needs to build new knowledge, for example, based on your workplace assessment process and the coming year’s targets.
You might know that you will work with a new type of chemical or group of users, which requires additional professional insight to prevent working environment problems.
Supplementary training for the safety and health organisation
If you have a safety and health organisation, you must also discuss supplementary training for safety and health representatives and management representatives. This may involve courses in ergonomics, chemicals, accident prevention, or a specific challenges in the working environment relevant to your company and goals for the coming year.
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