Hans Jørgen Limborg

• PhD
• Research Director at Team Working Life Denmark

Evidence-based practice or evidence-informed decision-making is considered a vital and practical approach to prevent workplace accidents and injuries (van Dijk et al., 2010; Van Eerd, 2019). Despite discussions to better support evidence-informed practice in occupational health and safety (OHS) (Baker et al., 2015; Schulte, 2017; Waterson, 2016), O...

The article situates the analysis of OSH monitoring and enforcement within the framework of regulatory studies. In particular, the empirically based Holistic Compliance Model clarifies the multifarious influences on compliance behavior. As well as examining how the OSH regulators organize and conduct monitoring and enforcement, and differences in t...

This paper reviews recent literature on prevention services for occupational safety and health (OSH) in the changing world of work found in the Member States of the European Union. Based on the findings of a wider review of the literature on support for securing compliance on OSH undertaken for EU-OSHA, it defines what is understood by ‘prevention...

Denne artikel stiller skarpt på arbejdsmiljørådgiverens rolle som brobygger mellem forskning og praksis. Artiklen præsenterer resultater fra en systematisk udviklingsproces med følgeforskning (Bifrost), hvor seks rådgiverenheder og seks små og mellemstore virksomheder (SMV’er) har samarbejdet om at skabe en metode til fremme af samarbejdet mellem r...

Rapporten dokumenterer projektets empiriske analyser, herunder brugen af programteori. Projektets teoretiske basis: Professionel kapital belyses og diskuteres i f t anvendelse til forskningsformål.

Young workers employed in temporary positions constitute a vast part of the employees in the Danish retail sector. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the implementation of an intervention to establish H&S groups for young workers in Danish supermarkets. The intervention aimed to include and involve the young workers in the management of t...

Denne bog introducerer vidensmobilisering som en strategi til at skabe bedre sammenhæng mellem arbejdsmiljøforskningen og dens anvendelsesmuligheder i praksis. Bogen præsenterer viden om overordnede perspektiver, konkrete aktiviteter og virksomme mekanismer, som har betydning for, når arbejdsmiljøforskningen skal virke i praksis. Sigtet med bogen...

Exposure to silica dust is a well-documented health risk for construction workers, particularly in demolition. The industry body for demolition companies wanted to raise the industry standards and integrate dust prevention in their business cases and thus agreed to collaborate in this project. We developed and tested a program to prevent demolishe...

The industrial relation (IR) tradition is often referred to as the ‘Danish Model’. The model is based on a tri-partite social partnership between the Danish state, and employers’ organizations and employee trade unions. The Danish IR system may be classified within the pluralist IR perspective, where of employer and employee subgroups are organized...

This study examined Nordic research on psychosocial work environment and disability management, specifically employer strategies for preventing work disability in common mental disorders (CMDs). A scoping review was performed to identify strategies across several research databases, alongside contact with content experts, hand-searching of non-inde...

In this essay we describe the development of health and safety professionals in Denmark. We show how the historical particularities of the so-called ‘Danish model’, compromises between various health and safety stakeholders, and a lack of pure health and safety educations led to the establishment of an occupational group of professionals characteri...

In the Danish retail industry, young workers employed in temporary positions for few hours a week constitutes more than half of the employees. For the main part of the young workers this employment is their first meeting with the labor market, they lack knowledge and awareness of the work environment, and at some workplaces the introduction is limi...

In spite of many years efforts it is difficult to prove substantial improvements of the work envi-ronment and policymakers are continuously searching for new efficient strategies. This paper ex-amines the concept of orchestration of work environment programs, based on an empirical analy-sis of recent Danish policy. Orchestration is a strategy where...

Små bygge- og anlægsvirksomheder har en række udfordringer med at gennemføre arbejdsmiljøindsatser på egen hånd. Derfor oprettede Forebyggelsesfonden i 2011 en særlig indsats kaldet Forebyggelsespakker (FP), som går ud på, at små virksomheder gennemfører et på forhånd fastlagt forløb beskrevet i en drejebog, og til det får de økonomisk kompensation...

Denne artikel handler om de erfaringer, som er gjort gennem otte projekter, der alle har brugt ressourcepersoner til at forbedre arbejdsmiljøet på deres arbejdsplads. Ressourcepersoner er medarbejdere, der tildeles en særlig forebyggelsesopgave og gives kompetencer og tid til at påvirke deres kollegers måde at arbejde på med det mål at øge forebygg...

Denne artikel1 bygger på en kortlægning af udviklingen i arbejdsmiljøarbejdet i 60 danske virksomheder. Projektet belyser forskellige tilgange, 'arbejdsmiljøprofessionelle' anvender i virksomhedernes arbejdsmiljøarbejde. De arbejdsmiljøprofessionelle er, i modsætning til medarbejderrepræsentanter i arbejdsmiljøorganisationen, ansat til at håndtere...

D en koordinerede arbejdsmiljøpolitiske indsats på nationalt niveau har været udviklet gennem en række planer; fra "Rent arbejdsmiljø 2005", lanceret af arbejdstilsynet i 1996 til "En strategi for arbejdsmiljøindsatsen frem til 2020", som blev godkendt af den daværende regering i (2020-planen). På trods af planerne består den samfundsmæssige arbejd...

Researchers and regulatory bodies lack an in-depth understanding of how small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) make decisions about workplace health and safety improvements and the role played by business networks in these decisions. To improve regulation and support there is a need to understand SMEs better and, to create the means to empower th...

The current Danish labor market system dates back to 1899 and has been regulated through general agreements since then. We refer to it as the Danish model. The social partners have responsibility over wages and working conditions, only health and safety are regulated by law. There is a long tradition for conflict resolution at company level and thr...

Hvordan hænger begreberne om social kapital og relationel koordinering sammen? I hvilken grad er der overensstemmelse mellem målinger af det ene og det andet, og kan man sige, at det ene er mere grundlæggende end det andet? Med udgangspunkt i spørgeskemadata fra ældreplejen i fem danske kommuner undersøger vi disse spørgsmål. Resultaterne peger på,...

In spite of progress in intervention research, our understanding of the transformation of knowledge from the research into national working environment programmes is limited. Research in state regulation is mainly aimed at compliance and efficiency of public administration, while little attention is paid to why and how public and private organisati...

I den psykosociale arbejdsmiljøforskning har der i de sidste 50 år overvejende været fokuseret på en række faktorer, der i denne sammenhæng kaldes job-faktorer: Krav, indflydelse, monotoni, udviklingsmuligheder etc. Dette fokus har vist sig i såvel de herskende teorier og modeller som i de anvendte metoder. Med udgangspunkt i en undersøgelse af soc...

Lærere og ledere i folkeskolen har i de senere år været udsat for en øget mængde af krav til dokumentation og registrering. Dette er et led i New Public Management styringsparadigmet, som på dette felt kan siges at have skabt en ubalance mellem en bureaukratisk systemtænkning og den fagprofessionalisme der har kendetegnet folkeskolen. Dokumentation...

Limited research has been conducted on owner-managers’ responses to the working environment (occupational health and safety). This should be understood in the light of the way owner-managers develop identity from their business, and a better understanding is needed to develop preventive programmes that fit the owner-managers’ interpretation of the...

arbejdspladser, hvor der 'arbejdes med mennesker', har en række særlige vilkår. Det er en grundantagelse om arbejde med mennesker, at klient-relationen på en gang skaber mening og kan være belastende. Andre vilkår ser dog ud til at være afgørende for, hvordan det psykiske arbejdsmiljø bliver håndteret. Artiklen viser på empirisk baggrund, at når ar...

The scientific literature regarding preventive occupational health and safety activities in small enterprises has been reviewed in order to identify effective preventive approaches and to develop a future research strategy. During the last couple of years, there has been a significant increase in the number of studies of small enterprises, but the...

arbejdslivet er under omfattende forandring, kravene til fleksibilitet øges og dermed ændres arbejdsmiljøet også. De psykosociale belastninger er blevet mere fremtrædende og får langt større bevågenhed. Nye metoder til at kortlægge de psykosociale belastninger anvendes i stort omfang, men for at udvikle en forebyggelsesstrategi over for det fleksib...

Denne artikel undersøger på baggrund af et omfattende casestudie i et social-center sammenhængen mellem ændringer i arbejdsorganiseringen og belastninger i arbejdet. Belastningerne vurderes i forhold til ændringer i de psykosociale rammer for arbejdet, og i denne sammenhæng inddrages en række overvejelser over det socialfaglige arbejdes kultur. End...

This article examines the development of the professionalized working environment activities as they are executed in the Danish Occupational Health Service (OHS). In an historical analysis of OHS, the development of professional approaches to the working environment is shown to have shifted in focus from: an early concern with the control of occupa...

Different professional strategies within the Danish Occupational Health Service (OHS) have emerged during the last two decades, all aiming to comply with the prevention objective of the OHS. This development can be described by four successive approaches to professional occupational health and safety work: the medical approach, the technical preven...