Breakfast seminar – The good working environment . Working life is changing – what about the working environment?
Digital breakfast seminar Tuesday, November 25, 2025 on TEAMS at 0830-1000
The work environment is about how we organize, plan and carry out our work. A good work environment is characterized by good management, employee participation and clear organizational frameworks. Competence, good communication, mastery and recognition provide both security and well-being.
Through the breakfast seminar series Working life in change – what about the working environment?, the safety service at UiB wants to shine a spotlight on the importance of factors that build a good working environment.
The fall semester’s second breakfast seminar in the series “Changing working life – what about the working environment?” will be held on Tuesday, November 25.
- Time and place: November 25th at 8:30-10:00 AM at TEAMS
- Deadline for registration: November 24 at 2:00 p.m.
In the spring of 2023, NOU 2023:5 The big difference was published, followed by NOU 2025:5 Women’s Occupational Health – Knowledge and Action . The reports document that women’s health has been systematically under-prioritized, and that gender has an impact on symptoms, disease course, drug response and use of health services.
Women also have higher rates of sickness absence than men, often due to musculoskeletal disorders and psychological stress. The socio-economic consequences are significant – impaired women’s occupational health is estimated to cost society 59 billion kroner annually. But first and foremost, this is about quality of life and the ability to remain in work over time.
UiB’s Action Plan for Health, Environment and Safety states: ” The working environment shall be stimulating, inclusive and health-promoting, and the integrity and dignity of the individual shall be safeguarded.” This value base shall be reflected in how we organize, facilitate and develop the working environment for all employees.
To achieve this goal, there is still a need for more knowledge and research on women’s occupational health. At UiB we have strong academic communities that contribute to this and who will tell us about the latest research in women’s health.
Invited to the breakfast seminar:
Nina A Grytten Torkildsen – center coordinator for DRIV – Center for Women’s Health Research
Eva Gerdts – professor at Clinical Department 2, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and has heart disease in women as her overarching research focus.
Marte Bjørk – professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine 1, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen. Bjørk works mainly with population-based studies on people with neurological diseases. One of these diseases is migraine, which is a disease that affects most women.
Una Ørvim Sølvik – Associate Professor at the Department of Global Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UiB. She is head of the research group Work, Health and Gender. Since 2023, Sølvik has specifically focused her research on women, menopause and work.
Meeting Chairs:
June Vibecke K. Indrevik, University Chief Safety Officer (UHVO) UiB and Ann-Elise Olderbakk Jordal, Deputy UHVO UiB.UHVO UiB.