The increased prevalence of remote work, particularly quickened by the COVID-19 pandemic, has impacted employers' responsibilities regarding workplace safety within employees' homes. This thesis explores how the shift to remote work has redefined the legal and practical boundaries of a secure work environment. Special focus is given to the role of safety representatives in ensuring a safe

The aim for the thesis is to analyze the policy processes for the kilometre-based taxation aimed to regulate trucks heavier than 3,5 tons. The theoretical framework that constitutes this study is Kingdon´s three streams which include problem, policy and politics, and an aspect that describes institutionalized governance. Climate change has been the foremost problem definition for the coupling to t

Marknadsstörningsavgiften är en direktverkande sanktionsavgift i MFL. Trots att den vid första anblicken verkar vara ett praktiskt och smidigt verktyg för att komma till rätta med grova överträdelser av förbuden i MFL används den mycket sällan. Frågan är varför? Den här uppsatsens skildrar hur marknadsstörningsavgiften uppkok och dess utveckling samt beskriver gällande rätt genom en redogörelse avA market disruption fee is a direct penalty in MFL. Even though at first sight it seems to be a practical and flexible tool to deal with more serious violations of MFL, it is seldom used. The question is why? This essay describes how the market disruption fee arose, its development, and a description of established law. The purpose of this essay is to identify underlying interests, thoughts and id

Många svenska kommuner är inte förberedda inför klimatförändringarna. I bedömningen av vilka kritiska händelser som kan inträffa i kommunen har få uppmärksammat effekterna av ett förändrat klimat. Det visar ett examens-arbete på Lunds tekniska högskola. Klimatförändringarna bär med sig effekter som kraftigare regnväder, översvämningar och höjda havsnivåer. Svenska kommuner ansvarar för verksamh

The goal of this essay has been to analyze how hospital counselors establish a professional relationship with dying patients and treat them with compassion and professionalism. We wanted to find out how a counselor creates a supportive conversation and how a balance through closeness and distance is established. A qualitative study was done were we interviewed eight hospital counselors tied to pal

The aim of this study was to examine how social workers experienced their ability to affect what requirements were set on individuals receiving social assistance. The purpose was also to understand, from a social worker’s perspective, what use these requirements had and what role they played in the process towards self-sufficiency. The analytic framework used to understand our empirics, gathered b

This report covers the process and result in developing a hand hygiene station for a public environment. With disease spread getting more focus in todays media and society, we wanted to explore and develop a product that is helpful in decreasing the disease spread in our global society. Research was mainly conducted by information gathering from second hand sources, such as scientific- and trend