Doctor’s notification

In certain cases, doctors are required to report illnesses or diseases that may be related to work or the working environment. Such notifications must be sent to the Swedish Work Environment Authority.

As a doctor, you must, for example, report illnesses or diseases, symptoms and problems that:

point to poor working conditions or inadequate procedures for work adaptation and rehabilitation;
have affected many people doing a certain type of work (when this number is greater than expected, or more than usual for this type of work or at a certain workplace);
become more common over time;
may be caused by exposure to carcinogens or mutagenic substances; or
are new, unexpected or unusual and can be linked to the work done by the patient.

You can read more about this in Section 2 of the Swedish Work Environment Ordinance.

Work Environment Ordinance (Swedish), external website, opens in a new window

Description of the notification process

1. Fill out the notification
  - Fill out the form below.
  - Please note that you need to fill in the form and submit your notification at the same time.
2. Send your notification to us
- - Click on the submit-button in the form.
Send the information in a letter and post this to:
Arbetsmiljöverket (the Swedish Working Environment Authority)
Box 9082
171 09 Solna
Sweden
You will receive an automatic response at the email address you specified, with confirmation that we have received your notification. If you send us a letter, we will respond by letter.
We read all notifications and evaluate whether we have to inspect the workplace or not.
We will inspect the workplace in the six weeks after receiving your notification. Among other things, we will inspect the working environment problems that you described in your notification.

You will receive a letter, in which we will inform you that the inspection has been completed. If you wish to read up on the inspection, you can request the documents in question by contacting the Swedish Working Environment’s registry clerk on email:

arbetsmiljoverket@av.se
We decide not to inspect. You will receive a notification message about this.
Contact our response service:

010 730 90 00

1. Organisation and workplace

State the Name of the employer. State, if possible, in which of the organisation’s workplaces work has been performed that led to the suspected link between work and ill health. Please also provide the address of this workplace.

2. Illness, disease or problem

Describe the person’s illness or disease, change in health, disorder, symptoms, etc. Provide your diagnosis, using the National Board of Health and Welfare’s health classifications, where possible.

3. Working conditions

Describe the working conditions, working environment and/or any factors in the working environment that may be related to the illness, disease or disorder. For example, such factors may be technical (tools etc.), physical (e.g. temperature) or chemical (e.g. substances and materials). They may also relate to working methods, working hours, or social or other circumstances, whether individually or in combination.

4. Factors giving rise to a suspected link

Specify the circumstances supporting your suspicion of a possible link between the illness, disease or disorder and the working environment.

5. Number of people affected, age and gender

Specify the number of people affected.

Click ‘Add field’ to add more people of different ages and genders.

Number

Age

Female

Male

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6. Details of the person notifying

Name E-mail address Postal address Phone number

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Doctor’s notification

Description of the notification process

Send a notification

If you rather want to send a physical letter

You will receive an automatic response

We read all notifications

If we inspect

If we do not inspect

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