Structure of the Network

The Network has a decentralized architecture between fully autonomous national focal points in each country. All institutions participate on a voluntary peer-to-peer basis, and are responsible for their own country information. The focal points produce, collect, reposit and update the information on their pages in their national servers.

The following institutions act as focal points of the Network:
– National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark
– Ministry of Social Affairs, Working Environment Department, Estonia
– Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
– Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Germany
– Medical Academy of Latvia, Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Latvia
– Ministry of Health, Centre of Occupational Medicine, Lithuania
– St. Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies, Northwest Russia
– National Institute of Occupational Health, Norway
– Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland
– National Institute for Working Life, Sweden.

Participating institutions and country contact persons in the Baltic Sea Network project

The regional main homepage of the Network is maintained by the FIOH. As a technical focal point, the FIOH gives secretarial support e.g. in organizing meetings, and technical support especially for the Baltic countries, Poland and Russia.

Regular meetings for Network country coordinators are organized once or twice a year. These meetings discuss and agree on guidelines and directives for improving the structure and contents of regional and national information, also from the technical point of view.

Documents of Meetings

The Network supports the pre-accession activities of the Baltic and Eastern European countries to become members of the EU. In the long run the Network will offer one forum for collaboration of experts in the field of OH&S in an integrated Europe.

The Network is an independent arrangement without any official connections to any organizations and it complements other existing networks in the field of OH&S.

Last Modified: 11/11/2002