Purpose: This thesis aim is to examine the employer’s responsibility regarding the psychosocial work environment and to investigate the shape of employee surveys as a tool for the employer to discover psychosocial risks in the work environment. The aim is also to investigate how international organizations pay attention to the issue. Method: The legal dogmatic method is applied in the work to establish current law in the field of psychosocial work environment. Furthermore, the method of sociology of law is applied in order to study three different employee surveys as a result of established law. Results: The result shows several factors that the employer needs to take into account due to their responsibility when it comes to psychosocial work environment. An example of this is help and support units for employees that should be offered by the employer. The result of the employee surveys studied shows that they contain some disadvantages, such as that they tend to be too long. However, they pay attention to a lot of psychosocial risks. There also tends to be a clear correlation between regulations within the psychosocial work environment field and the formulated questions in the employee surveys. Conclusion: The study finds that the employer has an extensive responsibility when it comes to the psychosocial work environment. It also shows that the employee surveys have improved over time and that they have the potential to be a functional tool to discover psychosocial risks at work. The study also finds that the different international organizations have quite different focus regarding psychosocial work environment.