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Service description
The State Treasury will compensate the occupational accidents and diseases to persons with a Government employment relationship.
Compensation is primarily determined on the basis of the Workers’ Compensation Act. Remote work accidents are handled according to the Act on the Compensation for Accidents Caused by Conditions in Government Employees’ Remote Work (Remote Work Accidents Act).
The injured employee personally submits a notification in the State Treasury’s e-service, after which the agency’s accident contact person supplements, confirms and sends the notification to the State Treasury.
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Preconditions for receiving compensation
An accident refers to a sudden and unforeseen event arising from an external factor that causes the employee to be injured or develop an illness. Typical occupational accidents include slipping or falling at the workplace or on the way between home and the workplace.
Any accidents occurring in connection with the work are compensated under the Workers’ Compensation Act. Under the Remote Work Accidents Act, an accident is compensated when it occurs in activities that are usually related to the work but not in connection with the work itself. For more information about accident insurance for remote work, see the Remote Work tab.
A person who is participating in a work trial or coaching, serving a sentence, or is a pensioner or contract fire department member is subject to different practices when reporting occupational accidents. In this case, contact the State Treasury’s Compensation Services.
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What to do
- Consult a doctor.
- At your appointment, mention the name of your employer and that the State Treasury is your insurance provider.
- Immediately submit a notification of the accident in the State Treasury’s e-service.
- Notify your supervisor of the occupational accident.
- You can supplement a pending accident notification later with the additional information form.
- The accident contact person will be informed of your notification so that they can check and confirm it.
- You will be notified by email after the accident contact person has checked and confirmed your notification.
- You will receive the State Treasury’s decision by post.
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What will be compensated
Compensations paid under the Workers’ Compensation Act include
- medical expenses
- the immediate travel expenses caused by medical care
- personal aids that were damaged in connection with the accident
- compensation for the loss of earnings paid as daily allowance, worker’s compensation pension, and rehabilitation allowance for the duration of vocational rehabilitation
- compensation for a general permanent functional limitation that is the result of an injury or illness
- funeral assistance and transport costs of the deceased
- work trial and the rehabilitation allowance paid for its duration
If an accident falls under the Remote Work Accidents Act, it must be reported within two years after it occurred. Some examples of what is compensated under the act:
- medical expenses
- the immediate travel expenses caused by medical care
- personal aids that were damaged in connection with the accident
- daily allowance paid as compensation for the loss of income
- accident pension (after one year has passed since the accident)
- compensation for a permanent limitation caused by an injury or illness.
- funeral assistance and transport costs of the deceased
- work trial and the rehabilitation allowance paid for its duration
If you have already submitted a notification of your accident, report subsequent medical, pharmaceutical and travel expenses with the additional information form. Do not fill in a new accident notification.
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Accidents at weekly or fitness exercise
In case of an accident during a weekly or fitness exercise during working time, you are entitled to accident compensation. Compensation can be paid, when:
- the requirement to maintain physical condition is based on legislation or an authority decree.
- the weekly or fitness exercise is approved by the employer.
Special requirements for physical function apply to the work of police and military professionals, for example. The following are examples of accidents which happen during weekly or fitness exercise:
- during gym training, a weight falls onto a toe, breaking the toe.
- during a Cooper test, the runner steps into a hole on the track and twists their ankle.
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For accident ombudsmen
The State Treasury compensates occupational accidents and diseases suffered by persons employed by the State.
The process for reporting occupational accidents will change on 15 February 2021. During the current transition period, it is very important that the accident contact person regularly reads the messages and notifications received in the shared email inbox, as we will send information about all future changes and training events that way.
As a representative of the accident contact person or employer, you have the duty to check and confirm the accident notification for the State Treasury without delay after you have been informed of the accident.
Follow these instructions
- A notification will appear in the agency’s accident contact persons’ shared email inbox when an employee has filed in an accident notification
- Open the link in the email
- Select Employer’s confirmation
- Use personal authentication – the authorisation has been granted to you personally.
- Select to confirm the name of the agency and continue. In the Suomi.fi service, agencies are called companies.
- Select the application to be confirmed from the application list. Click “Edit” to open the application details. Check the information reported by the injured person (the first four tabs) and edit it if necessary. You can also save an unfinished application. You can find the option at the bottom of each page. Next time, you can find the unfinished application by logging in to the front page of our service at asiointipalvelu.valtiokonttori.fi
- Fill in the Employer’s confirmation tab (phone, email and any attachments)
- Confirm or reject the notification
What should I do in the event of an occupational accident? (Guide)
Frequently asked questions (Q&A)Processing compensation matters at the State Treasury
The State Treasury will notify the injured party without delay of the initiation of the proceedings in the matter and investigation will begin without delay, in no later than 7 weekdays. The State Treasury must issue a decision within 30 days after the necessary reports have been delivered.
Decision to the employer
The Workers’ Compensation Act restricts the employer’s right to obtain information on the health of the injured person and other confidential matters. The employer or other responsible organisation only receives the decision if loss of earnings is compensated for the period for which the employer has paid salary, or if the organisation has paid for treatment costs.
The employer will not receive any decisions that concern accidents that are compensated under the Remote Work Accidents Act. If the accident falls under the Remote Work Accidents Act, the employer must separately apply for the daily allowance from Kela, in accordance with the Health Insurance Act. The State Treasury will notify your agency’s shared email inbox when you need to apply for the daily allowance.
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Accident list
The accident list is a service provided by the State Treasury for the accident contact persons at Finnish agencies. The service is intended to facilitate the maintenance of the accident list required by the Workers’ Compensation Act (section 267).
The accident list is available on the front page of the e-service when you log in using your employer agency’s service role. The service role comes from the Suomi.fi e-Authorization “Processing notifications of occupational accidents”, which is the same authorization that you can use to approve accident notifications.
What does the accident list contain?
- Only information related to occupational accidents.
- The personal data of the injured person as well as the date, time and location of the accident.
- A free-form description of the accident written by the injured party in the accident notification.
- The circumstances of the accident according to the selections made in the accident notification.
- Information about the damaged body part and the quality of the injury.
- The accident list does not contain any information about the State Treasury’s decisions.
How can I use the accident list?
- The accident list can be found on the front page of the e-service, under the Reports section.
- You can download the accident list to your device as a .csv file. This file can be opened in MS Excel, for example.
- The data concerning an accident will be available for download from our e-service for up to two years after it was reported. However, please note that the two-year retention period went into effect on 1 August 2022, which means that, at the moment, no accident data is available before that date.
The State Treasury’s e-service is not meant for archival. We recommend downloading the accident list to your organisation’s archives, to the extent that is permissible under law.
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To the application forms
Accidents and occupational diseases
The procedure for government employees to report occupational accidents will change on 15 February 2021.
Immediately after the accident, submit a notification in the State Treasury’s e-service.
Filling in the form requires strong authentication (bank ID, mobile certificate or certificate card). Use Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, or IE11 to ensure that the service works properly.
You can supplement a pending occupational accident claim subsequently by using the additional information form.
When do I need an insurance certificate?
No insurance certificate is required for private clinics (e.g. Mehiläinen, Terveystalo, Aava, Pihlajalinna, etc.). You should mention that you are insured by the State Treasury already when making the appointment.
Public services require an insurance certificate to be able to correctly carry out invoicing.
You can find the insurance certificate here.Until 15.2.2021, use the method below:
If you already have all of the information required for completing the notification, you can fill in the form without identification. Direct link to the online notification form: Online notification form of accidents and occupational diseases (in Finnish) >Link to the identification page: After identification, you can save the information you have already filled onto the form to wait for further information or archiving, or view any previous notifications you have filed. Yes, I wish to be identified >
Insurance certificate of occupational accident >
Additional information
You can supplement a pending occupational accident claim subsequently by using the additional information form
Send requested additional information >
New legislation in 2023 improves accident insurance for government personnel.
Under a new Act that entered into force on 1 January 2023, government officials and employees are compensated for accidents on remote workdays that do not strictly happen in the course of work. In practice, this means that covered accidents include ones that occur during recreational or lunch breaks, on the way from home to a remote work office or when taking a child to day care.
Compensation applications for accidents that occur in remote work are submitted using the same electronic form as in other accidents.
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When are accidents that occur during remote work compensated as occupational accidents?
Based on the Workers’ Compensation Act (459/2015), accidents during remote work are only compensated when they occur in the course of work.
The new Act on the Compensation for Accidents Caused by Conditions in Government Employees’ Remote Work (1012/2022), which entered into force on 1 January 2023, is secondary and the basis for compensating accidents that occur during remote workdays when not carrying out work tasks. However, the coverage does not include extraneous tasks such as home or child care or other personal chores during remote workdays.
Activity Workers’ Compensation Act Act on the Compensation for Accidents Caused by Conditions in Government Employees’ Remote Work Conducting actual work Yes – In the workplace area: meals, coffee break, going to the washroom, break time exercise and related physical movement. No Yes Immediate travel between an apartment and a remote jobNo Yes Exporting children to daycareNo Yes Lunch break or other break outside in the vicinity of the workplace No Yes Activity Workers’ Compensation Act Act on the Compensation for Accidents Caused by Conditions in Government Employees’ Remote Work A person slipped on an icy sidewalk when they were going to their designated workplace, and fell and injured their wrist. Yes – A person was having lunch in the kitchen. They cut their finger when opening a tin. No Yes A person was plugging in their computer to a wall socket while working and was shocked. Yes – A person ran from the washroom to answer the phone and tripped. No Yes -
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