In today's working environment, employees have opportunities for professional and personal development, but at the same time stringent demands and expectations for deliveries may lead to great pressure on the individual. It is important for us to strike the right balance between professional and personal development on the one hand, and demands and expectations regarding deliveries, on the other.

The changes taking place at work can lead to psychosocial risks. Such risks, which are linked to the way work is designed, organised and managed, as well as the social context of work, result in an increased level of stress and ill-health.

As part of our ambition to promote well-being and good health, leading practices to manage psychosocial risk have been implemented in certain business areas, including "The Psychosocial risk management approach" (PRIMA) and the awareness course "Middle Management in Change and Transition." The purpose is to increase managers' ability and competence with regard to promoting a good psychosocial working environment.

The main focus of PRIMA is to prevent work-related stress, through risk assessment and risk reduction. Feedback from entities undergoing the PRIMA process highlight the value of having a concrete and manageable approach to relevant psychosocial challenges that enables context-specific interventions.

More than 500 managers have participated in the awareness course "Middle Management in Change and Transition." This is a targeted effort related to health and well-being during the integration process in which middle managers have been offered training in how to prevent and handle health-related consequences of change processes. The participants highlighted the course's relevance and being able to exchange experiences with other participants as being especially valuable.

In our endeavours to become an industry leader in health and the working environment, we believe that key steps to success include the implementation of psychosocial risk control programmes and raising awareness of the importance of the psychosocial work environment.