The Double Diamond in Occupational Health and Safety Management

This guide provides you with inspiration for finding and solving the right occupational health and safety problem in collaboration with the employees who are facing the problem. The approach is based on design thinking and is both a systematic and a creative way of solving problems.

The guide is primarily aimed at occupational safety and health professionals, whether they are company employees or consultants with an occupational health and safety adviser. The guide is divided into two parts. In part one, we elaborate on what design thinking is, where the concept comes from, and how it can be used in occupational health and safety management. Here, you can read more about the Double Diamond process model and about how you can do a design sprint to solve a complex OHS problem. You can also read more about why it is useful to understand occupational health and safety issues in a system perspective if you want to apply design thinking as a method.

In part two, we present you with a range of auxiliary tools and methods that can be used in a design sprint. Here, you will also find an overview of templates that can be printed out and used in the workshops that make up a design sprint.

You can use the guide as a reference work which you do not have to read from start to end. However, it would be a good idea to start by reading through the first part. This will give you a basic understanding of the concept behind design thinking and present you with two cases that show how it can be applied in practice.