The institution commits to promoting a nationwide prevention culture and recognizes that the development of a prevention culture is the responsibility of society as a whole.
Guideline code
PREV_05200
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The board and management should collaborate with all relevant stakeholders, including competent state authorities, employers and workers, as well as other actors in society, to combine efforts to establish and maintain a nationwide prevention culture.
- The management should ensure that all prevention programmes, campaigns and activities contribute to the idea of establishing a nationwide prevention culture.
- The management should foster good public relations which contribute to the idea of a nationwide prevention culture.
- The management should address all possible target groups (e.g. pupils, students, teachers, parents, employers, employees, politicians, the media and the general public) in fostering a nationwide prevention culture.
Structure
Structure
- The board should recognize safety and health at work as a basic human right as stipulated in Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- The board should commit to supporting and assisting moves to ensure that priority is given to national occupational safety and health strategies, and to building a strong and sustained preventive safety and health culture.
- The board should recognize that improving safety and health at work has a positive impact on working conditions, productivity and economic and social development, and therefore commit to prevention in every aspect of work.
- The board and management should actively participate in securing a safe and healthy working environment and give top priority to the concept of prevention.
Title HTML
Guideline 39. Establishing a prevention culture
Type
Guideline_1
Weight
56