Abstract:

Because personal assistance is relatively new in social care in Sweden we were interested in to get more knowledge in how supervisors for personal assistants worked. In our study we choosed to look into how the supervisors worked with the physical work environment for the personal assistants. The questions we wanted to found answers for in this study was, which work directions the supervisors for personal assistants have around the physical work environment, which legal provisions there were around the physical work environment for the personal assistants and how the supervisors experienced the work with the physical work environment for the personal assistants. We did a qualitative interview study with supervisors for personal assistants. We realised in our study that there were big differences in how the supervisors for personal assistants worked with the physical work environment for the personal assistants. The result indicated that the differences were because the supervisors didn’t have any guidelines but the legal provisions that handle the physical work environment for personal assistants. An idea for further studies would be to find out if the supervisors for personal assistants that had used guidelines around the work with the physical work environment experienced that the guidelines made the work easier?