European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

We welcome this excellent BAUA initiative to offer a central risk assessment platform. This portal gives employers and workers the necessary tools to carry out sector and hazard specific risk assessments. It enables them to understand the action that they need to take to improve workplace health and safety, as well as productivity.

A central piece of this initiative is the database containing risk assessment tools and checklists. EU-OSHA has created an interface that allows feeding German features to the European database. (link)

Everybody has an interest in keeping workers safe and healthy! Most work-related accidents and illnesses are preventable and risk assessment is the first step in the process.

Therefore, we have organised “Healthy Workplaces”, our Europe-wide information campaign. The 2008/2009 campaign aims at reducing work-related accidents and illness through better risk assessment. It targets, in particular, SMEs and high risk sectors, such as construction, agriculture and transport.

All campaign material is available in 22 EU languages and can be downloaded free of charge from the website: http://hw.osha.europa.eu

EU-OSHA’s aim is to encourage individuals and organisations of all sizes to get involved in the campaign, and to organise their own events and activities during the European Weeks or at any other moment during the campaign.

Together with you, we hope to promote the importance of carrying out risk assessment in every workplace and to reduce work-related accidents and illnesses in Europe and beyond.

Jukka Takala,
Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work