**6. Summary**

Occupational health care today consists of the combined efforts of employers, employees and other stakeholders to improve the health and well-being of people at work. This conceptual development has meant that the number of stakeholders in occupational health care is increasing. Modern successful occupational health care requires multifaceted collaboration, partnerships and alliances between various actors.

An essential element in occupational health care is well-structured work with various stakeholders. The work with stakeholders starts with stakeholder analysis. It aims to evaluate and understand stakeholders from the perspective of an organization. The first step is to identify the essential stakeholders of occupational health care in an organization. The stakeholders can be classified as internal, intermediate and external stakeholders. The most important internal stakeholders are the individual employees working in an organization; other internal stakeholders are peer employees and various managers (senior managers, line managers, HR managers) of an organization. Interface stakeholders include occupational health service providers and public healthcare providers. A wide range of various external stakeholders are pushing organizations to improve their work and respond in more responsible ways to contemporary challenges.

After identifying key stakeholders, the next step is to understand their key positions, arguments and interests in occupational health care work. A variety of methods can be used to map the opinions and positions of various stakeholders. It is important to summarize the views of the stakeholders and also analyse their relative positions according to power, influence and interest.

The stakeholder analysis should lead to planning and implementing strategies for managing stakeholder relationships and utilizing the full potential of various stakeholders in developing occupational health care within an organization.
