Work ability management services and tools for you

Skilled and abled personnel are the key resources for your company. Work ability management is financially profitable for both the company and its employees. Work ability management is based on identifying work ability risks early and starting to manage them. With us you will find ways to reduce work ability risks and promote the work ability, so you can successfully manage not only your company, but also your employees. On this page, we have compiled for you the most important tools on the topics of work ability management.

Which topic are you interested in?

  1. Early support

    With early support activities you support employees’ work ability and prevent it from weakening in the long run.

    Read about early support

  2. Occupational health collaboration

    Occupational health collaboration helps you with work ability management.

    Read about occupational health collaboration

  3. Mental health

    Mental health is important part of work ability, and it also needs to be promoted at the workplace.

    Read about mental health

  4. Musculoskeletal (MSK) health

    Good MSK health is the basis of everyday life.

    Read about MSK health

  5. Work ability services

    Use our services from survey tools to online sparring sessions.

    Read about work ability services

Early support – what value does it bring?

Early support means that you support employees’ work ability and prevent it from weakening in the long run.

With the help of early support you are able to spot work-related problems as early as possible and address them before they become serious, suck as sick leaves. Therefore early support activities can save significant amount of costs.

94 percent of employers use a model for early support activities.

The goal is

  • to boost your employees’ ability to cope at work
  • to reduce the amount of sick leave and disability, as well as the costs they entail 
  • to assist supervisors and employees to quickly deal with concerns and problems,
  • to support employees’ return to work after a sick leave.

How to start the early support activities

  1. Guide supervisors to early support activities

    On our website you will find information and tips on how a supervisor can take care of the success of early support in their everyday-life.

    Go to the supervisor's early support pages

  2. Tell your employees about early support

    On our website you can find information on employee's point of view on how they can notice work ability risks on themselves, what they sould do then and what early support includes.

    Go to the employee's early support pages

  3. Calculate the cost of sick leaves for your company

    By reducing sick leaves, your company saves significant amount of money. Therefore, early support is also financially profitable.

    Go to the absence calculator

Occupational health collaboration – your support in work ability management

Occupational health collaboration is co-operation between the company and occupational health care. It means that employer, supervisors, the representatives of the occupational health care service and employees team up to take care of the employees’ work ability together.

In Finland, employers have a legal obligation to arrange occupational health care for all employees.

Impact and lead the occupational health services you pay for

The employer decides where the occupational health services are arranged and how comprehensive services are provided to the personnel in addition to the legally obligatory occupational health care. Be interested in the occupational health and actively participate in the planning of the activities.

Five steps of occupational health collaboration

Different steps include different actions. Get familiar with our instructions and tips on what to take into consideration on each step.

1. Choose a partner
2. Conclude a written agreement
3. Carry out a workplace survey
4. Draw up an action plan
5. Start up the collaboration
6. Assess the collaboration and develop the plan

Occupational health collaboration tools for your workplace's everyday life

1. Instructions: Five steps of the workplace survey

  1. Guide your supervisor to the occupational health collaboration

    Guide your supervisors on how occupational health collaboration, such as work ability assessment and occupational health care consultation, are part of their work.

    Read information on occupational health collaboration on supervisor's point of view

  2. How does Kela imburse the occupational health service costs?

    Reimbursements depend on the content of the action you planned. Reimbursement percents are defined by reimbursement categories.

    Read more about Kela's reimbursements

Mental health – approach mental health like any other health

Researchers have concluded on a number of occasions that working is essentially good for mental health.

Mental health is not only well-being of the mind or the absence of problems. Good mental health involves the ability to deal with the feelings of the mind, thoughts and symptoms, and to cope with them. Mental disorders are diagnosed by doctors. Although it is not always possible to influence the background risk factors of mental health issues, your workplace has a significant role in supporting, promoting and protecting the mental health of your employees.

Pay attention to how mental health and coping at work are discussed at your workplace. When everyone approaches to it such as any other health people find it easy to discuss without the fear of being stigmatized.

  1. How does different mental disorders impact on work ability?

    We have gathered information on most common mental disorders and their impact on work ability.

    Read about the mental disorders

  2. Get familiar with our example cases for mental health issues

    In the examples we have described different challenging situations and instructions on how to deal with them.

    Go to the example cases

Musculoskeletal (MSK) health – the basis of everyday life

Physical work ability and functional capacity means an employee’s characteristics and capabilities to cope with the daily physical demands at work and during free time.

Physical strain is necessary for a person’s well-being. That is why there is no need to eliminate physical strain at work. Work that requires various forms of physical effort maintains and promotes health. Therefore, the objective is to find a suitable workload, which varies somewhat between individuals according to body structure, gender, and age.

With ergonomic solutions workplaces can improve the fluency and quality of work.

Musculoskeletal health tools for your workplace's everyday life

1. Tip list: How to manage the physical workload?
2. Checklist: How to accommodate work?

  1. 8 tips for supporting MSK health in practice

    Use ergonomic solutions and make a use of our 8 practical tips.

    Go to the tips

  2. Guide supervisors on supporting MSK health

    From our website you can find information and tips on how a supervisor can support MSK health at the workplace.

    Go to the MSK health pages for supervisors

 

Use our work ability services free of charge

  1. Survey tools

    With survey tools, you can assess your personnel's work ability and work energy.

    Read more and start using the service

  2. Online learning environment

    In online learning environment you fill wind diverse video and material offering and trainings.

    Read more and start using the service

  3. Online sparring sessions

    In the online sparring sessions our specialists provide advice on different aspects of work ability management.

    Read more and book a session

Get familiar with all of our work ability services!

Read about the services and start using them