Working and study environment

We all have a responsibility for the working environment, including you as a student. In order to prevent accidents and injuries, it is important to:

• Follow instructions
• Use protective equipment
• Report shortcomings in the working environment directly to the course leader and via the course evaluation
• Report accidents and near-accidents

If there is anything in the working and study environment that you think could be improved, talk to the course leader in the first instance and report any shortcomings in the course valuations. If you do not think that your department is listening to you or if the matter is of a more general nature, such as communal teaching premises, you can contact the student health and safety representative at your study programme.

What do I do if an accident occurs during study hours?

If an accident occurs during teaching, you should report this to the course leader in the first instance. It is also important to report near-accidents, i.e. when a dangerous situation arises which could have led to an accident. SLU uses incident reporting in its preventive working environment work.

• You can report an incident by clicking the green button on the top of this page.
• You can also report incidents by using an app.

Using the IA app

The IA app has a simplified function for submitting reports. The app is available for iOs, Android and Windows Phone.

It has an offline mode, which means you can submit a report even you are not connected to the Internet. As soon as you connect again, the report will be sent to the IA system.

Install the app and log on 

Before you can submit a report using the app, you need to download it from Google Play, the Appstore or Windows Store. In Google Play and Appstore, search for AFA Försäkring. For Windows Phone, search for IA.

Enter the username: appstudentSLU and the password: September2019

Enter your information. This information will be stored on the phone and you will not need to enter it every time you submit a report. Click Klar (Done) to save the information. 

Once you have logged in, avoid logging out as your data and any history will then be deleted.

To submit a report, click on one of the links below. You can also log in using the shared username and password above.

Please note that these are not the same username and password that you use for logging in to the web version of the IA system.

iOS: iaapp://ia.afaforsakring.se/SLUapp/September2019

Psychological working environment

We are each other’s study and working environment! It is important to respect other students and the teachers, even if their opinions are different to yours. Problems in the psychological working environment can be reported to the course leader, prefect or programme director of studies if they are a general departmental problem. By all means ask the study advisers for help. The student welfare groups at each study venue also work to ensure a good psychological study environment on SLU’s courses and study programmes.

Stress and high performance demands can create a negative study environment. The Student Health Centre can provide individual advice and also arranges courses on stress management, among other things.  

What does SLU do?

Work on the working environment at SLU takes place partly at local level through departmental cooperation groups and partly in four regional working environment committees (RAK):

• Alnarp
• Skara
• Uppsala (also covers Flyinge, Strömsholm, Wången and Grimsö)
• Umeå (also covers Skinnskatteberg)

At university level, there is a so-called chair conference for working environment and safety. More information about SLU’s working environment work can be found on SLU’s employee web.

Each year, SLU organises half-day training for the unions’ student health and safety representatives, which covers the most important elements of working environment legislation and how to work as a student health and safety representative.

What does the law say?

The Swedish Working Environment Act also applies to students. The Act applies to both the physical and psychological working environments. The employer must take measures to prevent health problems and accidents, provide instruction to students and employees in order to avoid risks, maintain premises, machinery and safety equipment, and investigate injuries at work.

The employer (SLU) must carry out systematic working environment work in consultation with the student health and safety representative, the employee health and safety representative and the trade unions.

Where can I find more information?

• Student health and safety representatives
• Insurance
• Student Health Centre
• I want to know more about SLU’s working environment work
• Student/Work Council at SLU
• The Swedish Working Environment Act
• Swedish Work Environment Authority