There are about 250,000 workplaces in Finland subject to monitoring by the occupational safety and health authority. We aim to target our inspections so that our monitoring will be as effective as possible. About half of our inspections concern workplaces with fewer than ten employees.

In 2025, we performed about 19,800 workplace inspections initiated by authorities or customers. We issued about 5,700 improvement notices and nearly 38,300 written advices on matters that should be corrected at workplaces. We submit an inspection report to the workplace in question no later than one month after the end of the inspection, or when the occupational safety and health authority has access to all the necessary material.

We received about 25,400 communications from customers in 2025. About 2,000 of these communications led to an occupational safety and health inspection.

On about 400 occasions we were obliged to use coercive measures: prohibitions on use, various obligatory decisions and fines for neglect of contractor’s liability.

We filed nearly 350 reports with the police concerning aggravated occupational safety and health offences, and we issued 280 statements to the police and prosecutors. We also investigated 790 occupational accidents in 2025.

For more information, please see the Annual Reports of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Matters inspected in occupational safety and health inspections in 2017–2024

The data published as a result of a joint project between the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and the occupational safety and health authority includes inspections between 2017–2024. The data includes nearly 180,000 workplace inspections, nearly 67,000 inspected employers and more than 80,000 workplaces. It enables comparison of the number of occupational safety and health inspections per sector and subject matter, the indicators provide information on the lawfulness of the inspected matters.

For more information, please see Finnish Institute of Occupational Health's Work-Life Knowledge service.