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Working together for risk prevention Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2012-13 Name and title of speaker Date | Event title Safety and health at work is everyone’s concern. It’s good for you. It’s good for business. Scale of the problem Why is safety and health important? • Good for business, workers and for society as a whole • Significant improvements across the EU in recent decades, but … • Every year more than 5,500 people lose their lives due to workplace accidents • 159,000 die as a result of work-related illnesses (ILO estimates) • € 490 billion cost to the EU economy www.healthy-workplaces.eu 2 Benefits of good safety and health • Reduced risks and costs − Lower employee absence and turnover rates − Fewer accidents − Lower accident insurance costs • Productivity increases • Threat of legal action is lessened • Better reputation among customers, suppliers and investors www.healthy-workplaces.eu 3 Prevention is better than cure Prevention is the cornerstone of Europe’s approach to managing risks. Prevention is about managing work-related risks with the ultimate aim of eliminating and reducing the number of work-related accidents and occupational illnesses. www.healthy-workplaces.eu 4 What does prevention mean in practice? • Managers and workers working together to prevent risks • Managers and employers have primary responsibility • However….. active worker participation is vital for success www.healthy-workplaces.eu 5 Basic principles of risk prevention • Avoid risks • Evaluate risks that cannot be avoided • Combat them at source • Adapt work to the individual • Adapt to technical progress • Replace the dangerous by the non- or the less dangerous • Develop a coherent overall prevention policy • Prioritise collective protective measures over individual ones • Give appropriate instructions to workers www.healthy-workplaces.eu 6 Strategic aims of the campaign • Promotion of core message that workers and managers must work together • Giving clear guidance to employers to manage specific work-related risks • Provision of practical guidance to promote a risk prevention culture • Laying the foundations for a more sustainable risk prevention culture in Europe www.healthy-workplaces.eu 7 Management taking the lead It is the legal and moral duty of management to take the lead on workplace safety and health. In practice this means: • Visible and active commitment by management • Engaging with the workforce and their representatives • Effective ‘downward’ and ‘crossways’ communication • Using risk assessment to guide decisions • Integration of good health and safety management throughout an organisation • Promotion of these ideas throughout entire supply chain • Monitoring, reporting and reviewing health and safety performance www.healthy-workplaces.eu 8 Worker participation Worker participation is vital. Benefits include: • Lower accident rates • Cost-effective solutions • A happier and more productive workforce (lower absence rates) • Greater awareness and control of workplace risks www.healthy-workplaces.eu 9 Consulting on safety and health Employers have a duty to consult workers/worker representatives on health and safety. This means in practice: • Effective and open dialogue • Joint problem solving and decision making • Listening and acting on what is said • Participation in spotting hazards, assessing risks and devising solutions • Participation in implementing solutions and promoting safe working conditions • Workers fully cooperating with employers • Putting in place arrangements so these can happen in practice www.healthy-workplaces.eu 10 About the campaign How the 2012-13 Healthy Workplaces Campaign works • We help create safer and healthier workplaces for everyone’s benefit • But we cannot do this by ourselves • We need you to help foster and promote workplace safety and health www.healthy-workplaces.eu 11 Network-based campaigning Core strength: national focal points and tripartite networks. But also … engage other stakeholders/partners • Official campaign partners (Pan-European and international organisations) including social partners, NGOs, sectoral federations and networks, private companies • EU institutions including European Commission, EU Parliament, EU representations, EU agencies, Enterprise Europe Network www.healthy-workplaces.eu 12 How to get involved? The campaign is open to all individuals and organisations. You can get involved by: • Disseminating campaign information and materials • Joining in with one of the many events, conferences, competitions, advertising campaigns – taking place during the campaign • Organising your own activities www.healthy-workplaces.eu 13 Campaign partnership offer Pan-European organisations can also apply to be campaign partners. The Agency offers: • Partner certificate • Welcome pack • Promotion at EU level and in the media • Online Communication Platform • Partner web section www.healthy-workplaces.eu 14 European Good Practice Awards • Recognise outstanding and innovative contributions • Encourage managers and workers to work together • Enhance workplace safety and health • EU Member States, EEA, Western Balkans and Turkey • Two categories: − Workplaces employing fewer than 100 people − Those with 100 or more workers • Winners chosen from entries submitted by national focal points http://osha.europa.eu/en/about/competitions www.healthy-workplaces.eu 15 Resources • Campaign guide • Practical guides for workers and managers • Good practice examples • News about campaign events • Presentations and animated video clips • All available in 24 languages www.healthy-workplaces.eu www.healthy-workplaces.eu 16 Key dates • Campaign launch: 18 April 2012 • European Weeks for Safety and Health at Work: October 2012 and 2013 • Good Practice Awards Ceremony: April 2013 • Healthy Workplaces Summit: November 2013 www.healthy-workplaces.eu 17 Further information • Visit the campaign website www.healthy-workplaces.eu • To find out about events and activities in your country, contact your national focal point www.healthy-workplaces.eu/fops www.healthy-workplaces.eu 18