The institution’s prevention experts are in direct exchange with employers and safety representatives to enable the transfer of prevention knowledge and facilitate the implementation of prevention measures at the operational level.
Guideline code
PREV_01900
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The prevention and/or communications department should ensure that all information is carefully adapted for its target audience and takes into consideration all relevant (official) languages and levels of literacy (e.g. through readability, use of illustrations).
- The management and the prevention department should define the most important target groups for prevention information, both inside enterprises (e.g. safety representatives and managers, prevention experts and prevention representatives) and external to them (e.g. consulting occupational safety and health professionals and labour inspectors of authorities other than the social security institution).
- The prevention and/or communications department should regularly test and evaluate all information and communication tools in use, to improve the effectiveness of communications.
- The prevention and/or communications department should consider the use of contemporary information tools (e.g. social media) to better reach the target groups.
- The prevention and/or communications department should develop special communications strategies to reach difficult-to-reach groups (e.g. migrant workers, those without a fixed workplace, such as plumbers, and those who are usually unaware of safety and health risks at the workplace).
Structure
Structure
- The prevention department should identify groups in need of occupational safety and health information as target groups for prevention information and communication.
- The prevention department should define suitable communication paths for prevention information and the information and communication elements and tools to be used (e.g. guidelines, brochures, electronic and multimedia information provided via the Internet, CDs, DVDs, smartphone apps and any other electronic storage devices, along with seminars and personal consultation).
Title HTML
Guideline 13. Principles of information and communication on prevention
Type
Guideline_1
Weight
23