THE COORDINATOR FLAIR FOR ORGANISING AND GATHERING KNOWLEDGE THE COORDINATOR As a working environment and emergency and security coordinator Henriette Lerche no longer works in the laboratory. Her workplace is the long corridors and offices at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University on Blegdamsvej in Copenhagen. Since the autumn of 2012 she has worked full-time in the institute's administration. Henriette Lerche started as a laboratory technologist at the Niels Bohr Institute and was then employed in a research department at the same place. She was there for four years where she became a part of the working environment organization and was elected employee representative. Management chose to abolish her position and offered her instead a position where she would be working full-time with the working environment, which she already knew something about. I have also been a shop steward, so the management had already seen that side of me. It is important in my job to have integrity and to remain objective at all times. I am neither on management nor the employees' side. My function is to create a bridge to get things to play along together. The management was of the opinion that I, as shop steward, could manage this. And I have had the position of working environment coordinator since the autumn of 2012, says Henriette Lerche. She believes the best thing about the job is that she is an integral part of the many processes. The management or the working environment 10 organization often have an idea that they want something being investigated. Has influence My function is to collect and find the necessary information, which I present to them. We then find out together how the plans can be realized. And often I am also involved in putting them into practice. My work also has something to do with influence. Management can be in doubt about how something has to be managed. Then I can come along with input and tell them how I think we shall proceed. Here I draw on my long experience. I have a greater insight as to how things function practically in a laboratory if you want to make changes. The management do not have the same insight. Then I can come along with my proposals, so that in some areas I am my colleagues' representative in relation to change, says Henriette Lerche. Her skills as a working environment coordinator are first and foremost organizational flair and a sense of where she can find the necessary knowledge. But also, an ability to get these things linked to the visions and strategies of the organization. Intricate executive orders We would all like to see our employees healthy and well. But at the same time, I also know that we cannot just decide what people are to do, whether they have to go on a diet or something. It s more about communicating health related issues. At other times it can be an intricate executive order in the legislation I have had a look at. It can be written in a nonsensical language and it is necessary to translate it, so I work with it until it is meaningful, says Henriette Lerche. She is also a security and emergency coordinator. In this job she is responsible for coordinating the Niels Bohr Institute's emergency response at the workplace in case of accidents or something as extreme as a school shooting. At the present time the institute is in the process of getting a new building in which the employees will be moving to in a year's time. There Henriette Lerche will via her coordinator's role in some of the working groups come with input regarding the working environment. What do you have to take into consideration about the working environment when you are building something new? It is also her work to ensure a good working environment and, in this way, stamp a mark on the new building. denly become very personal. That is why we have got somebody like me, who without the employer's prerogative can go in and investigate and look on things with fresh eyes as to how we can solve the problem and move on, says Henriette Lerche. She emphasises that her task is to move the workplace forward and help make it better all the time. n My function is to create a bridge to get things to work together The framework for performance Henriette Lerche's job is important because the working environment is what creates a framework for what one can undertake at the workplace. I believe that in my coordinating role I have a different overview in relation to the working environment representative. I am a little more in the forefront and plan working environment meetings together with management and draw up agendas. In my case my leader leans on me quite a lot because he has not so much time and resources for this work even though he would like to. So, in this way I have rather a lot of influence and I believe it is a good thing for the workplace. It often happens that my leader openly admits that there are things he does not know. But then we sort it out. For myself it is all about having a network, so I have people I can discuss things with. Especially psychological working environment problems can be very complex and difficult. Many in management can be afraid of them because they can sud11 MEET 9 SPECIALISTS WHO ARE CREATING THE FUTURE THE DEV ELOPER THE IT SUPER USER DITOR THE QUALITY AU THE TECHNOLOGIST THE COORDINATOR THE LOGISTICIA N THE ANALYST THE TRAINER LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST EDUCATION THE WORLD CITIZEN CONTENTS A PROFESSION UNDERGOING CHANGE In Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) we know that our profession contains a vast number of exciting job opportunities. 03 Preface: A profession undergoing change 04 The Analyst: Guarantor for consumer safety 06 The Quality Auditor: Ensures that quality THE ANALYST ANALYTIKEREN 1 GUARANTOR GARANT FOR FOR CONSUMER SIKKERHED FORBRUGERNES SAFETY THE ANALYST Eva Jørgensen has been a laboratory technologist since 1989 and has worked at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration's laboratory in Ringsted since 2006. At that time, she was, together w THE QUALITY AUDITOR ANALYTIKEREN 1 ENSURES THAT GARANT FOR QUALITY IS OF THE FORBRUGERNES SIKKERHED HIGHEST ORDER DITOR THE QUALITY AU When laboratory technologist, Susanne Jeppe sen, is doing her job at Novo Nordisk A/S in Bagsværd it is done for the most part at a desk and in front of a compute IT SUPER USER BRIDGE-BUILDER BETWEEN RESEARCH AND IT DEVELOPMENT Since Mads Molich completed his education as a laboratory technologist in 2006, he has for the most part not had two working days that are the same. Today he works at Novozymes A/S in Bagsværd as a scientific laboratory technologist o THE COORDINATOR FLAIR FOR ORGANISING AND GATHERING KNOWLEDGE THE COORDINATOR As a working environment and emergency and security coordinator Henriette Lerche no longer works in the laboratory. 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