Legislation

The basic enactment is the Work Environment Act (Swedish acronym: AML), passed by the Riksdag (parliament). This Act defines the outer framework governing conditions in the workplace. The Swedish Work Environment Authority (formerly the Swedish National Board of Occupational Safety and Health) has been tasked by the Government with framing the more detailed rules on the subject. This we do by publishing, in our Statute Book (AFS), Provisions and General Recommendations defining more closely the requirements to be met by the working environment. Rules issued before 1978 are called Directions and Notices, but few of them now remain in force. The Statute Book is generally updated on the web within three or four weeks of the printed version appearing.