ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL REPORT

HUMAN RESOURCES
Human resources
*Absenteeism due to illness in 2005 totalled
5.37% (5.97). Among women,
absenteeism due to illness was 6.44%
(8.16), with 5.07% (5.41) among
men. One reason for the reduction in
absenteeism due to illness is the impact
of the health care programme. Reported
cases of occupational injury totalled 20
during the year.
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❯❯ The Swedish Maritime Administration
seeks to promote a favourable
long-term supply of personnel with
the appropriate working skills, and
endeavours to gain an even distribution
of authority and influence between
men and women. Accordingly,
the agency works actively and longterm
to market itself as an attractive
employer and continually ensures
training and strengthening of skills
among the workforce. The Administration
also has a policy of overriding
goals and guidelines in terms of
equality and diversity. On the base of
these objectives, concrete, long-term
goals are drawn up each year through
programmes in the various groups in
the agency’s coordination organisation.
A large spectrum of occupational
categories is represented in the organisation.
In addition to the executive
and administrative personnel,
occupational groups include pilots,
boatmen, VTS operators, ship surveyors,
engineers, construction personnel
and cartographers. The number
of employees at year-end was
1,279 (1,293), corresponding to
1,137 (1,144) standard working
years*.
The agency’s workforce is reported
on the basis of employee groups in
three categories, namely, management,
core and support skills. Management
skills are represented by
people with formal personal responsibility
and who have the task of
planning and supervising the agency’s
operations at various levels. Core
skills are represented by personnel
with specific proficiencies in the
agency’s operating areas. The final
group, support skills, consists of personnel
who perform a support function
for management and core skills
and who do not have specific proficiencies
in the agency’s operational
areas.
Skills supply
The planning and content of training
courses at the Swedish Maritime
Administration is done largely within
four training groups in which representatives
from the training unit and
the particular departments and personnel
organisations participate. Efforts
involved in developing, supplementing
and strengthening skills
among the Administration’s workforce
continued in 2005.
As part of efforts to offer development
opportunities to the entire
workforce, the agency each month
allocates 0.3% of payroll costs to a
security fund. All permanent employees
may apply for a contribution
from this fund for various forms of
skills development programmes. In
2005, there were 57 applications,
with 74% gaining a positive response.
Of these, the categories support
and core skills are evenly represented,
while only one application
was received from the management
skills category.
As part of the agency’s management
enhancement programme, a number
Number of permanent employees by skills category, 31 December
Category Management skills Core skills Support skills
Gender F M F M F M
Number 10 46 87 850 178 108
Total 56 937 286