The employees are the most important asset in all companies. A good working environment reduces sick leave, lowers turnover rates and increases efficiency. The key to obtaining a good and sound workplace is to systematically focus on factors that influence the working environment such as ergonomics, noise and chemicals. DNV can help your organisation promote a safe, healthy, efficient and productive working environment.
Purpose
DNV supports organisations by introducing systematic and continuous measures for improvement of their working environment and by this achieving and maintaining the high standard required by regulations and companies’ own governing documents.
Benefits
DNV assists your business to continuously work towards reduced hazardous exposure, a good working environment and good work relations. We aim to decrease sick leave, prevent accidents, and reduce long-term health hazards and increase efficiency and productivity. Preventive measurements are more cost efficient than the cost of accidents, incidents or liabilities.
Our approach
DNV provides competence on occupational hygiene, human factors, ergonomics and psychosocial working environment. Our goal is to help our clients implement, develop, maintain and improve their working environment by assessing their needs and deliver bespoke services. DNV may assist in design development, operation and decommission of industrial plants, offshore installations and ships.
Occupational hygiene aims at protecting workers from exposure to physical, chemical, biological and psychological hazards in their working environment. Ergonomics is the interdisciplinary knowledge between working environment, technology and the user. DNV employs competence in all aspects of occupational hygiene, ergonomics and human factors and provides a wide range of services to assist our clients in achieving a healthy working environment.
Our services include:
- Assistance with regards to compliance with national and international working environment regulations
- Development and implementation of a working environment management system
- Advisory services for implementing risk reducing barriers (technical, organizational and personal)
- Measurements and risk assessment of occupational hygiene factors such as noise, vibrations, illumination and chemical exposure
- Assessment of organizational and psychosocial working environment
- Evaluating physical and cognitive ergonomics related to work tasks
- Control room analysis, including function and task analysis
- Perform ergonomic risk assessments.