Occupational health services play a central role in workplace health and safety.
At the same time, the question often arises whether occupational health services alone are sufficient to manage psychosocial risk at organisational level.
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The core difference:
Occupational health services deliver interventions and support.
GATE is a governance layer that determines when, why, and with what mandate interventions are activated — and how they are followed up over time.
GATE enables psychosocial risk to be governed in the same way as other business-critical risks
What occupational health services do well
Occupational health services contribute with:
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professional support to individuals and groups
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work environment investigations, interventions, and rehabilitation
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medical, psychological, and ergonomic expertise
This is critical once the need for action has been identified.
What GATE adds
GATE focuses on the governance that determines when and why interventions are activated, by:
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establishing early and defined thresholds
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clarifying who has mandate and responsibility
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linking risk to decision logic and follow-up
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creating traceability in how risk develops over time
This enables psychosocial risk to be managed as a governable risk area — not solely through isolated interventions.
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How GATE and occupational health services work together
GATE does not replace occupational health services.
It enables occupational health services to be used more precisely and at the right time, as part of a coherent governance chain:
signal → threshold → decision → intervention → follow-up
This strengthens both the effectiveness of interventions and leadership’s ability to take responsibility for the whole.
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GATE is the governance layer that makes it possible to decide, prioritise, and follow up interventions at organisational level.