Are you interested in helping to make the work environment even better at AU?
As an occupational health and safety representative at Aarhus University, you cooperate closely with management and make your voice count. Does this sound like something for you? Stand for election in the occupational health and safety organisation elections this November.
Our physical and psychological work environment has a direct impact on our well-being and productivity, which is why it’s important that managers and staff continue to focus on our safety, health, psychological safety and culture at work. As an occupational health and safety representative, you can help to ensure a good work environment in your unit.
If this sounds like something for you, you can register as a candidate in the occupational health and safety organisation elections at AU from 27 November. Registration is open for two weeks. Contact the occupational health and safety group or manager in your unit to find out how. Your motivation and engagement can make a difference.
If you want to know more, you can find lots of relevant information about the different occupational health and safety groups at AU on their websites. You can also read more about what being an occupational health and safety representative at AU actually involves.
- Read about the work environment at AU
- Find out how the elections for occupational health and safety representatives work in practice
- Find the occupational health and safety group in your unit
What does an occupational health and safety representative do?
A good work environment should provide a supportive framework for our daily professional lives. But what does being an occupational health and safety representative actually involve?
An occupational health and safety representative:
- is a spokesperson for members of staff who communicates observations and recommendations about the work environment
- is part of a local occupational health and safety group with a manager
- has a say in initiatives and decisions that improve the work environment in your unit
- support management in their ongoing focus on ensuring and developing a good work environment
Some of the tasks that occupational health and safety representatives perform in collaboration with management are:
- analysing and preventing work-related injuries
- planning and carrying out specific health and safety-related tasks, such as risk assessments and evacuation drills
- participating in workplace assessment processes in their unit, such as following up on action plans
- helping to ensure a good psychological work environment and to develop AU as a workplace
Read more about the role of occupational health and safety representative
About the occupational health and safety elections
• You can register as an occupational health and safety representative candidate from 27 November 2023
• Registration is open for two weeks
• You must have worked at AU for at least nine months to register as a candidate
• You are elected for three years at a time, starting on 1 March 2024.
• If there are fewer seats than candidates, elections will be held to select a representative
About the occupational health and safety elections
- You can register as an occupational health and safety representative candidate from 27 November 2023
- Registration is open for two weeks
- You must have worked at AU for at least nine months to register as a candidate
- You are elected for three years at a time, starting on 1 March 2024.
- If there are fewer seats than candidates, elections will be held to select a representative