Occupational safety election 2023 – Candidates at joint services election

2. Harri Ruutiainen

Hello voter,

For me, Aalto University is an excellent vantage point for the scientific community and its challenges. Throughout my time at Aalto, I have had the opportunity to train, learn new things, and progress to new tasks.

I am now applying to become an occupational health and safety representative, order to be able to participate in the development of occupational well-being and improving the comfort of the personnel at work.

I have attended and received occupational health and safety training.

information and practical lessons by occupational health and safety.

In my current position in the university's shared services, I have gotten to know new challenges and nice colleagues.

I have worked as a basketball coach for about 30 years, where the importance of team spirit, well-being and community are emhasized. As a coach, I have had to solve various problems and situations, which can be compared very well to the work community.

On the other hand, experience in former workplaces has also given perspective to dealings with the employer side. I have been working with security technology for over 10 years Vartioässät,

Engel and Securitas technology. I have an education in Electronics-as and a special profession in the field of security, I took a course and, through an accident, re-educated As Oy as a property manager, which I worked for 2 years, after which I moved to Aalto's service. Ea2 also visited.

My goal is to be elected as an occupational health and safety representative.

 I feel that the biggest challenge in Aalto is that, due to organizational changes, the community has fragmented and, at the same time, something of the collective spirit has also lost.

Thank you for voting for me, Harri

3. Mikko Raskinen

Hi! I've been involved with Aalto University since its beginning, and through my work at the University Communications I've been able to get to know all the schools, including research, teaching and services. So I'm quite familiar with the U-level environment spanning many years.

During the ongoing 2-year period I've worked as one of our Deputy Occupational Safety Representatives for the U-level. I've also served as one of our harassment contact persons for the past years. In addition, I'm  the communications representative at the Occupational Safety Committee.

I've constantly tried to improve our work environment and the wellbeing of my colleagues with a firm belief in empathy and pre-emptive measures for example in the matters of preventing burnout, and fixing the effects of long-term work-related strain. 

I'm running for Occupational Safety Representative, and I would be very grateful for your vote!