The purpose of this study is to explore Swedish leaders in staffing agencies experiences, thoughts, and insights regarding the implementation of the legislative works around SAM (Systematic Work Environmental Management AFS 2001:1). In the context of SAM, the legislation entails a complex triangular relationship between the staffing agency, their customer, and the consultant. In this relationship the consultant finds themselves with two leaders, who must establish a cooperation across organisational borders to create a sufficient working environment. With an inductive approach to this phenomenon, three themes were derived from the conducted interviews: Risk for complacency, Tear in responsibility and Experiences of Shared Leadership. The findings displayed a risk for complacency for the respondents, as the comfort of long-term contracts and well-established routines diminished the incentive to conduct recurring risk assessments. The respondent’s detachment from the daily activities of the consultants resulted in a sense of deflection of the daily responsibilities on the customer and consultants. Finally, the theoretical notion of shared leadership offered some insight in the dual managerial position that is created in the context of working environment management in the staffing industry. This relation was explored through an inter-organisational perspective.

Studiens syfte är att beskriva hur ett systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete kan bedrivas effektivt så att det bidrar till en bra arbetsmiljö. Tidigare forskning lyfter bland annat ledarskapets betydelse och vikten av att involvera medarbetarna i arbetsmiljöarbetet. Forskningen visar också att det hårda och tekniska delarna ofta prioriteras före de psykosociala bitarna. Det empiriska materialet insamlades genom en metodtriangulering bestående av en fokusgruppsintervju och en enkätundersökning på ett företag i Sverige. Resultatet visar att respondenterna lyfter flera olika delar som viktiga för att kunna bedriva ett effektivt systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete. Studien utmynnade i slutsatserna att SAM kan bedrivas effektivt om det finns ett helhetstänk där alla delar i arbetsmiljön är viktiga. Det har visat sig att den psykosociala arbetsmiljön är svårare att behandla än den fysiska arbetsmiljön. Ledarskapet är en del som har visat sig vara av betydelse för hur arbetsmiljöarbetet lyckas, dessutom lyfts den ekonomiska aspekten som viktig för möjligheten att kunna bedriva ett effektivt SAM. / The purpose of this study is to describe how a systematic work environmental management can be conducted effectively to contribute to a good work environment. Prior research enhances the importance of leadership and the necessity of involving the co-workers in the work environmental management. Research also shows that the hard and technical parts are often prioritized before the psychosocial part. The empirical material was gathered through a mixed method consisting of interviews of a focus group and a survey on a corporation in Sweden. The result shows that respondents raise several different parts as important in order to conduct effective systematic work environmental management. The study gave the conclusions that systematic work environmental management can be conducted effectively if there is a thought-through plan and commitment where all parts of the work environment are covered and taken with importance. It has been shown that the psychosocial work environment is more difficult to treat than the physical environment. Leadership is a part that has shown to be of importance on how the work environmental management will succeed and that the economic aspect is regarded as important for an effective systematic work environmental management.