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Safety and health at work is everyone’s concern. It’s good for you. It’s good for business.

Healthy Workplaces

Working together for risk prevention

www.healthy-workplaces.eu

Campaign Guide
Management Leadership and Worker Participation in Occupational Safety and Health

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Contents

Introduction

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Scale of the problem

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Why the EU is running this campaign

7

Working together for risk prevention

9

What does prevention mean in practice?

10

The role of management

12

What does leadership mean in practice?

13

Why worker participation is vital

15

Encouraging worker participation

15

What is worker participation in practice?

17

About the Healthy Workplaces Campaign

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How the campaign works

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Who can take part?

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How you can get involved

20

Our existing network of partners

21

Our commitment to previous campaigns and their successes

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Resources

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Contact details

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Introduction
Workplace health and safety is good for business, for workers and for society as a whole.
It is easy to lose sight of these facts when deadlines or production targets are looming.
In such moments, rather than treating safety and health as ‘bureaucratic burdens’ it is more important than ever to be aware of risks in the workplace. This