The institution supports research in occupational safety and health, and research related to innovation and improvements in products, production processes and other relevant matters.
Guideline code
PREV_04200
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The organizing policies and principles of the research and development unit should encompass:
- Definition of the general orientation of the research and development work;
- Clear definition of the objectives of research;
- Description of the unit’s characteristic features, particularities and structures;
- An outline of the unit’s interaction with other prevention services and functions (e.g. services for the measurement of hazardous substances);
- Specification of the unit’s focus and priorities.
- The management should ensure that research topics and priority areas are mainly derived from the systematic use of statistics, risk assessment and risk analysis, which should be available within the institution. New areas of priority and emerging risks can be identified through the use and development of relevant statistics and risk observation.
- The research and development unit may conduct research on fundamental areas such as carcinogenic potentials and mechanisms, as well as case-related applied research in any of the following exemplary, needs-focused topics: safety technology; chemical, biological and physical environmental factors; accident prevention; product safety; work science and ergonomics; occupational diseases; work-related health hazards in the fields of epidemiology, allerology and immunology, molecular biology, pathophysiology, toxicology; occupational psycho-social risks; and work organization.
Structure
Structure
- The board should decide to develop and maintain the institution’s research and development capacities in the field of prevention. It should agree to finance or share the institution’s research and development capacities.
- The management should define the policies and principles to be followed in research and development work.
- The research and development unit should make available, to the general public and enterprises, information on newly developed solutions, techniques and knowledge, to enable all those concerned with prevention to make use of solution-oriented research results.
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Guideline 32. Research and development in prevention
Type
Guideline_1
Weight
46