Report an occupational disease

You must use your MitID in order to log in to ESS.

If it is the first time that you log in to the reporting system for occupational diseases (ESS), you must fill in your profile information before you can report an occupational disease.

Fill out a report (information in Danish)

Fill out ‘Min profile’ (‘My profile’) (information in Danish)

Using drafts (information in Danish)

Labour Market Insurance (AES) is not automatically notified of information about a patient’s GP, so it is very helpful if the fields are filled out as accurately as possible.

If you are a GP, the fields are filled out with information from your profile. You can overwrite the fields with the correct information if you are not the patient’s GP.

If the patient has been exposed to impacts from multiple employments, you must write in the patient’s most recent employment.

AES retrieves information on all employments where the impact has occurred when processing the industrial injury case.

In order to state the person’s diagnosis, you can search for the diagnosis in the field ‘Patientens diagnose’ (‘The patient’s diagnosis’).

Alternatively, you can look up the list of diagnoses by clicking on the link ‘Vil du søge i ICP-2, oftest anvendte eller alle ICD-10 diagnoser?’ (‘Do you want to search in ICP-2, most frequently used or all ICD-10 diagnoses?’).

See the instructions:

How can I search for diagnoses (information in Danish)

In order to state the impact that the person in question has been exposed to, you can search the field ‘Påvirkning’ (‘Impact’). For some diagnoses, the system will also suggest the most relevant impacts.

Alternatively, you can search the impact lists by clicking on the link ‘Vil du søge i oftest anvendte eller alle påvirkning?’ (‘Do you want to search most frequently used or all impacts?’).

See the instructions:

How can I search all impacts? (information in Danish)

It is only you that can see your own reports, invoices and drafts.

• Click on the menu item ‘Overblik’ (‘Overview’) on the left side of the screen. Here you can see ‘Anmeldelser’ (‘Reports’) and ‘Kladder’ (‘Drafts’) on separate tabs.

• Select the ‘Anmeldelser’ (‘Reports’) tab to view your previously submitted reports and, if relevant, invoices.

• Select the ‘Kladder’ (‘Drafts’) tab to see the drafts you have created.

• If you are entitled to a payment for your report (for example, if you are a doctor) you have access to your reports and invoices 1.5 years from the reporting date.

• If you are not entitled to a payment for your report (for example, if you work for a labour union) you can access your reports for 3 months from the reporting date.

• Drafts are automatically deleted in the system each night. This is done regardless of whether you receive a fee or not.

The above is due to the rules governing the handling of personal data.

Reports are sent to Labour Market Insurance (AES) who processes cases concerning industrial injuries and The Danish Working Environment Authority (Arbejdstilsynet) who uses data from reported occupational diseases to plan and prioritise the work environment initiatives, prepare statistics, respond to requests and conduct oversight of companies.

Doctors and dentists have a duty to report diseases that may have occurred due to the patient’s work (occupational diseases). The reports must be filled out in the reporting system for occupational diseases (ESS). According to Administrative Order on the duty of doctors and dentists to report occupational diseases, Section 5 (information in Danish)

An accident at work is a physical or mental injury that takes place due to an incident or impact. The incident or impact must be sudden and last no more than 5 days. An accident at work can be recognised as an industrial injury if the harm was caused due to your work or the conditions in which you were working.

An occupational disease is a disease that is caused by the work or the conditions that the work has been performed under. The disease must be a result of impacts at work and the correlation between the impacts and the disease must be recognised by medical research.