Your personnel’s work ability is our shared concern

Good work ability is in the interest of the individual, company and society. Healthy business creates conditions for good work ability, employment and longer careers. That is why we at Ilmarinen wish to help you. Together we can effectively develop work ability and reduce work ability risks and absences due to illness. We challenge you to team up with us to build tomorrow’s work ability.

What is work ability management?

Skilled and abled personnel are a key resource for your company. Work ability risk means the average risk of a company’s personnel to lose their work ability and end up on disability pension. With work ability management we predict, manage and reduce this risk systematically together.

It is an integral part of your company’s strategy and daily management. Work ability management benefits the employer, supervisors and employees.

Work ability management

Good work ability is the goal

The goal of work ability management is to improve employees’ work ability and well-being.

Keys to success

A company’s values and ways of operating are the keys to its success. You will succeed when you co-operate, define targets, processes and indicators and monitor how the implemented in daily life.

Key factors

Work ability management is based on identifying work ability risks early and beginning to manage them. Work ability management applies to employees, work communities’ operations and company practices.

Benefits of work ability management

Reduced costs

Direct personnel costs
- Wages for sick leave periods, pension contribution category, overtime costs
Indirect personnel costs
- Turnover, finding a substitute and orientatio

Improved productivity

Decreased absences 
- Less lost labour input 
- Less need for substitutes 
Fewer health problems related to work 
- Reduced Aamount of harm caused by illness in the work reduced 
Smoother workflow

Stronger responsibility

Better employer image 
- Personnel commitment and innovation 
Good corporate citizenship 
- Longer careers 
Sustainable competitiveness

Work ability management levels

The structures of Finnish society define what a company’s operating environment and opportunities are.

The company’s practices determine how you manage work ability risks, promote work ability and ensure the well-being of your employees.

Well-being at work cannot be successfully developed before you make sure that your employees’ work ability is sufficient. Similarly, you can improve the employees’ work ability only once you recognise the work ability risks and assess their significance.

You will succeed when you manage work ability in a systematic and goal-oriented manner together with occupational health services (occupational health care). Take risks into account and seize opportunities in order to support employees so that they consider their work to be meaningful, rewarding and an important part of life.

Only an identified risk can be impacted

Of employees, around 80 per cent are those whose work goes well and whose work ability risk is unlikely. For 20 per cent of employees, absences due to illness increase or the return to work becomes difficult. This requires the workplace to deepen its collaboration with occupational health services. It is the workplace’s job to identify in the work and work environment the factors that threaten work ability. These need to be removed or at least mitigated with measures carried out at the workplace.

Supervisors carry out the necessary measures at the workplace so that a return to work is possible. The measures are focused on identified risk. The return to work can be supported with a work trial, job coaching and retraining in co-operation with occupational health care services and the pension insurance company.

The idea behind work ability management is to prevent a possible or even likely work ability risk from materialising.

We will provide you with information and support for assessing and managing work ability risks. This way you can find successful and correctly targeted methods for improving both work ability and well-being at work. We help tailor solutions so that they are adapted to your company’s operating environment and the opportunities it offers.

Occupational health collaboration

In occupational health collaboration, the employer, employees and occupational health services promote employees’ work ability and healthy work through shared planning and actions.
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Early support

With early support activities you, together with supervisors, occupational health services, and the employees, support the work ability of your employees and prevent its weakening in the long term.
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Mental health

By fostering successful interaction, good leadership, competence development, genuine caring and responsibility at your workplace, you also promote mental health.
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Knowledge management

Make use of data in work ability management. Knowledge management lets you manage the work ability of your employees better than before.
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Ilmarinen is your partner in work ability management

Ilmarinen wishes to be your partner in work ability management. We provide evidence based information and tools to support you. Together with us, you can find ways to reduce the work ability risk and improve work ability so that you can successfully manage your company and your employees' work ability.