Title: Developing a prevention culture on workplace level: the perspective from workers viewpoint
1Developing a prevention culture on workplace
level the perspective from workers viewpoint
Viktor Kempa, Working Conditions, Health Safety
Department European Trade Union Institute
2 89/391/EEC Framework Directive on the
introduction of measures to encourage
improvements in the safety and health of workers
at work
Using of the work equipment
89/655/EEC Work Equipment (2)
Specific group of workers 92/85/EEC Pregnant
and breastfeeding workers and worker who have
recently given birth (10)
Specific activities 90/269/EEC Manual Handling
of Loads (4) 90/270/EEC Display Screen
Equipments (5) 92/91/EEC Drilling (11)
Personal protection 89/656/EEC Personal
Protective Equipment (3)
Exposure to agents 90/394/EEC Carcinogens
(6) 2000/54/EC Biological Agents (7) 98/24/EC
Chemical Agents (14) 2000/44/EC Vibrations
(16) 2003/10/EC Noise (17) 2004/40/EC Electromag
netic Fields (18)
Workplace 89/654/EEC Workplace (1) 92/57/EEC
Temporary/Mobile Construction Sites
(8) 92/58/EEC Safety and/or Health Signs
(9) 92/104/EEC Surface and Underground
Mineral-extracting Industries (12) 93/103/EC
Fishing Vessel (13) 1999/92/EC Explosive
Atmospheres (15)
2000/39/EC Indicative occupational exposure limit
values
3What is in game?
- Policy Strategy
- Legislation Principles
- Institutions Agencies (tripartite)
- Social dialogue (European Framework Agrements)
- Guidelines Codes of Practice
- Standards
- National transpositions and implementations
4Presentation outline
- Definitions
- Role of workers and worker participation in
developing a preventive culture - How to measure a quality of prevention culture?
5Definitions
- Prevention culture the ways in which OHS is
managed in the workplace, and often reflects "the
attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that
both partners share in relation to OHS -
- Prevention culture vs. workplace democracy
(including voting system, debates, democratic
structuring, due process, adversarial process) - Social dialogue
- Worker participation methods, procedures,
actors, representation - Direct vs. Representative
- Trade Unions, Work Councils, Mix, Worker Reps
- Joint HS Committee, Coll. agreements, Specific
agreements (election of Reps, rights to info,
consult, particip, or codecision)
6Worker participation methods, procedures,
actors,
- Direct vs. Representative model
- Trade Unions, Work Councils, Mix, Worker Reps
- Joint HS Committees
- Coll. Agreements
- Specific agreements
- Legislative rights
- (Workers, Reps, ICP)
7Culture is a combination of an organization's
- Attitudes
- Behaviors
- Beliefs
- Values
- Ways of doing things, and
- Other shared characteristics of a particular
group of people.
8A strong prevention culture is the result of
- Commitment and leadership of management
- Positive workplace attitudes
- Support to worker participation in OHS
- Mutual, meaningful, and measurable OHS goals
- Policies and procedures that serve as reference
tools - Training at all levels within the organization
- Responsibility and accountability throughout the
organization
Multi-Country Workshop on Developing Systems for
Occupational Health and Safety through Social
Dialogue Mercure Brussels Center Louise,
Brussels, Belgium Dates 18-19 February 2013
9Basic questions to be raised at the beginning
- Have you introduced a policy on OHS in your
company? - Is there any agreement between company and
workers on a creation and maintaining of this
policy? - Have you introduced any system of OHSM?
- Are the workers involved satisfactorily in the
OHSMS? - Is there indirect participation of workers in
your company? - Are there exact and defined procedures for
information and consultation of workers in your
company?
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10Questionnaire / Test
- For example divided into net chapters
- Management commitment
- Communication
- Worker participation
- Training/Information
- Compliance with procedures
- Learning organisation
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11Questions to be asked
Source HSE
12Questions to be asked
Source HSE
13vkempa_at_etui.org (2012)
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15vkempa_at_etui.org (2012)
16Key principles of the EU OHS law
- Prevention first! (proactive rather than
retroactive compensation) - Employers' responsibility
- Hierarchy of prevention measures
- Continuous improvement (OHSM)
- Health AND Safety
- Social dialogue workers' participation (ICP)
- Multidisciplinarity of prevention services
17Hierarchy of prevention measures
? Avoid/eliminate the hazards ? Evaluate the
risks that cannot be avoided ? Substitute
dangerous by less dangerous ? Combat risks at
source ? Adapt the work to the individual ?
Adapt to technical progress ? Develop a coherent
overall prevention policy ? Give collective
protective measures priority ? Give appropriate
instructions
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18An efficient prevention at the workplace
- Comitted employers
- Recognize the problem!
- Risk assessment management
- Assess the risk on participatory basis!
- Hierarchy of preventive measures
- Remove the hazard first!
- Technical and organisational measures
- Use a feedback from the workplace!
- Social dialogue at the workplace
- Talk to and listen to Workers HS Reps!
- Concerted cooperation of all the actors
- Identify, evaluate and combat the risks using
synergy of knowledge and powers!
Participation
Multidisciplinarity
Comprehensiveness
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19Thank you for your attention!