Work environment is everything that affects you and me during study/at work.

The goal is that it should feel good to go to the study/work place. Different aspects of the study/work environment are:

How we thrive and how the study/work is organised.
Lifting, working position, premises, chemicals, machines.
Air, sound, light, workload, work content.
Stress and the possibility of recovery.
If the studies/work provides an opportunity for personal development and new knowledge.
Relations to fellow students/co-workers.
Accidents and injuries.

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Management of work environment can be divided into three areas:

Physical working environment
- Examples of this: premises, ventilation, lighting, sound and aids in a workplace. Having a good physical work environment can, for example, access to aids that facilitate lifting and moving patients properly, as well as good ventilation in the premises where you are working, or good lighting at your desk.
Organisational work environment
- This is how the work is arranged, managed, communicated and how decisions are made.
Social work environment
- This is how we interact and talk to each other in the workplace. This also includes communication in digital networks such as emails, text messages, chats and so on.

Recently, digital work environment has also begun to become its own work environment area.