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403-1). IVL’s Working Environment Committee holds meetings once a quarter. Safety rounds, risk analyses and other matters are discussed and implemented in collaboration with the safety representative organisation (GRI 403-4). A large proportion of the working environment activities are carried out by IVL’s managers in operational activities.

The challenges IVL faces in the working environment are mainly related to stress and sedentary work, as well as activities in laboratories and in the field. For stress-related disorders, we employ counselling through occupational health care, which we also engage for ergonomic issues, sampling, vaccinations and other health-related examinations (GRI 403-3). All employees at IVL are covered by occupational health care (GRI 403-8). IVL usually offers employees massages and encourages physical activity through the sports clubs, although this has been limited in 2020 due to the pandemic. The fitness benefit is utilised to a great extent. Systematic working environment activities are essential for our laboratories, and these are followed up during annual safety rounds etc. For field operations, we work actively with risk analyses for certain types of projects.

Using these preventive measures, we believe that we are minimising incidents, illness and accidents. 2020 has been an unusual year in terms of sick leave, due to Covid-19 and the rules regarding staying at home in case of symptoms of the disease. Sick leave at IVL stood at 3.4 percent in 2020 (2.5 percent in 2019).

IVL works systematically with reports regarding incidents and occupational injuries. We have a registration tool that is well known among our employees. There have been six types of injury and six work-related injuries (GRI 403-2 & 403-9) during 2020.

During 2020, a large proportion of IVL’s managers have undergone an external two-day working environment training course. Several of our safety representatives also took part in this course or in similar training (GRI 403-5).

During 2020, there has been additional focus on the results of the employee survey, which is one of our main tools for investigating the psychosocial working environment. Our managers have received training in how to improve their operations based on results. In 2020, IVL had an eNPS (Employee Net Promoter Score) of 18 (benchmark 11) and a psychosocial work environment index of 75 (benchmark 73).

Two studies have been carried out in 2020 to see how e.g. working from home has gone during the pandemic. The results were relatively good, but IVL has nevertheless initiated measures based on them. Ergonomics when working from home are a challenge, which is why IVL has offered loans of ergonomic chairs as well as IT equipment such as monitors and keyboards. IVL conducted an activity challenge during the autumn of 2020 (see the text on Stockholm to Beijing, page 48), where the primary areas of focus were physical activity and social activities.