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Municipal OHS is the base of Finnish OHS, because every municipality has to offer OHS. Developmental challenges are big: small units with scant resources. SEITTI–is a provincial development project for municipal OHS. The aims of the project are regional development of municipal OHS, integration of OHS to national healthcare development programmes run by Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, improving regional networking of municipal OHS. Better cooperation with primary health care is needed to improve the care of chronic illnesses.
Methods
This project is an intervention project where all municipalities in Middle Finland are involved (n = 15, OHS employer customers n = 52 000). An interactive cooperation process has been built between Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) and local OHS actors. Baseline measurements were done in 2008-2009 and the follow-up will be done in year 2011. Interventions were planned according to the developmental needs observed at baseline. The following barometers are used: theme interviews of OH personnel (n=26) and policymakers (n=17), self-assessment of the psychosocial factors of OH personnel at work (n=143), customer satisfactions, quality and functionality in OH unit (Quality Key) and network analysis to OH personnel. Interventions are going on for example interactive seminars and OH unit support.
Results
Some items have already been found to be important: networking, customership especially with enterprises, active communication with customers, planning of activities in OH unit (quality work), good cooperation between OHS and primary health care.
Discussion
SEITTI project has progressed as planned. Cooperation with FIOH and local OHS actors is active and networking is improving all the time. We support individually OHS units at need. We suppose that this interactive method facilitates implementation. The results and conclusion of this project will be presented in the congress.