Complain about your own or others’ working environment

You can complain to Arbejdstilsynet, the Danish Working Environment Authority, if you suspect that the working environment regulations are being violated. This applies whether you work at the company yourself or wish to complain about the working environment of others.

You can also complain if you suspect that a foreign company carrying out work in Denmark is violating the working environment regulations.

You decide whether your complaint should be confidential or not

Arbejdstilsynet will treat your complaint with full confidentiality unless you choose to give digital consent allowing the Authority to lift its duty of confidentiality in relation to your complaint.

Why give consent?

When you give consent allowing Arbejdstilsynet to lift its duty of confidentiality regarding your complaint, you allow the Authority to share information about your complaint with the employer and others. This gives the Authority better opportunities to respond to the working environment problem you are reporting. This is because, when Arbejdstilsynet is permitted to share information about the complaint and its content during an inspection visit, Arbejdstilsynet can actively use the information in your complaint to clarify and document a possible violation of working environment regulations.

Whether you choose to complain confidentially or give consent, your complaint about the working environment is important for the Authority when supervising the working environment at your workplace or others’ workplaces.

What does giving consent mean for you?

It means that your complaint will no longer be confidential and that Arbejdstilsynet may share information about your complaint with the employer and others. The Authority may share information that you have submitted a complaint, what your complaint is about, and that it will carry out an inspection visit based on the complaint.