Occupational health care

The purpose of occupational health care is to prevent work-related illnesses and accidents. It is also intended to promote employees' work capacity and functioning and to help the workplace to function more effectively.

Employees

Employees are entitled to preventive occupational health care financed and arranged by the employer. The provision of medical care is voluntary for employers. Contact your employer to find out what kind of occupational health care is available to you. You can influence the occupational healthcare services at your workplace through the co-determination procedure (Employers section, in Finnish).

Self-employed persons

You can choose to arrange preventive occupational healthcare coverage and medical care at the general practitioner level for yourself as part of the occupational healthcare services. Read more about occupational health care for the self-employed.

Employers

If you are an employer, you must arrange preventive occupational healthcare coverage for the employees, and in addition you can choose to provide the employees access to medical care at the general practitioner level. For more information on arranging occupational health care, see the Employers section (in Finnish).