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ProZDRAV “S spoznavanjem in preverjanjem tveganj

skupaj do zdravih in varnih delovnih mest”

Lorenzo Munar, Evropska agencija za varnost in zdravje pri delu

(EU-OSHA)

torek, 5.11.2013 dvorana Ty, City Hotel, Ljubljana

Projekt

ProZDRAV »S spoznavanjem in preverjanjem tveganj skupaj do zdravih in varnih delovnih mest«.

Projekt je na podlagi Javnega razpisa za sofinanciranje projektov za promocijo zdravja na delovnem mestuv letu 2013 in 2014 finančno podprl Zavod za zdravstveno zavarovanje Slovenije.

1. Presentation EU-OSHA2. Presentation OiRA

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EU-OSHA Mission

Established in 1996

Our mission

We are the European Union organisation responsible for

the collection, analysis and dissemination of relevant

information that can serve the needs of people involved in

safety and health at work.

Role of EU-OSHA

To raise awareness of OSH risks and their prevention

Campaigning

To identify and share good practices in OSH

To identify new and emerging risks to facilitate prevention

To promote MS co-operation on information sharing and research

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EU-OSHA: A network Agency

A tripartite organisation

A network organisation

Providing information for:

experts

•policy makers

•the workplace (employers and workers) – good practice

•intermediaries (those who go into the workplace)

EU-OSHA: A network Agency

Providing information through:

•Website

•Campaigns

•Publications

Networks:

•National Focal Points

•European Institutions

•Social partners

•International network

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Focal Points (MS, EFTA, CCs)

Every Member State has a focal point

Every focal point has a tripartite national network

Focal point task is the coordination of information transmission between Member State and Agency

Focal Points

• Focal points are the means in which EU-OSHA can effectively support your State in occupational safety and health issues

• Agency is tripartite at European level and focal point network should be tripartite at national level

• Most important aspect of focal point work is to ensure that there is a structure and system in place to allow the flow of information between EU-OSHA and national OSH stakeholders

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Online interactive Risk Assessment

Why OiRA?

Enterprises need help in identifying risks (ESENER findings)

There is sufficient evidence at EU/MS level to conclude that micro

and small enterprises (MSEs) have some shortcomings/challenges

to overcome when it comes to risk assessment (RA):

• “It is not necessary, because we do not have any major

problems”

• “The necessary expertise is lacking”

• “A lack of technical support or guidance”

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Barriers

Reasons for not carrying out risk assessments regularly

% establishments, EU27Note: establishments where risk assessment or similar measures are NOT carried out

41 41 40

31

25

38 37 38

44

383835

33

40

25

7370

59

44 44

0

10

2 0

3 0

4 0

50

6 0

70

8 0

9 0

10 0

10 to 19 20 to 49 50 to 249 250 to 499 500 +

Lacking necessary expertise RA too time consuming/expensive

Too complex legal obligations on RA Not necessary, no major problems

Challenge: reach MSEs and get them to act

The evidence gathered shows that in order to support MSEs in the implementation of initiatives to improve OSH, it is required:

• To support RA activities

• To target employment sectors

• To be appropriate: neither too complicated nor too expensive (guides, tools,…)

• To involve trade unions and trade associations

• To disseminate (practical solutions like tools) through personal contact

• To combine active interventions with practical documentation and tools

The Agency’s OiRA tool and diffusion strategy meet these requirements

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Project Goals

OiRA aims:

• To contribute to the “development of simple tools to facilitate Risk

Assessment” (Community Strategy 2007-2012)

• To develop and promote practical tools to help MSEs to put in

place the RA process

• To help demystify the RA process among MSEs

• To build a critical mass of social partners (EU and national),

governments, public institutions interested in developing and

disseminating RA tools tailored to the specificities and needs of

European MSEs

OiRA Impact assessment & Evaluation: Overview

Increase percentage of small and micro sized enterprises assessing risks

Improve quality of risk assessment in

small and micro sized enterprises

Agency level

Framework model

Tools generator

Supporting material

Involvement of & support to/of stakeholders

Reduction of accidents at work

Reduction of work related

health problems

Reduction of occupational

diseases

Human resources

Mission & meetings

Impact assessment

costs

Software development

costs

Promotion costs

Translation costs

Stakeholder level

OiRA tools

OiRA promotion

Meetings & Agreements

Input Outputs Outcomes Impacts

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The Dutch Example

“RI&E MKB” 2004, was a project for MKB-Nederland, the Dutch employer’s organisation for SMEs

Financed by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and executed by TNO, an independent research organisation

Aimed to simplify the RA process for Dutch SMEs across various sectors

Led to the development of the 172 sector-specific digital RA tools available today at www.rie.nl

The OiRA tool is based on the successful development of the

Dutch RI&E (Risk Inventory and Evaluation) instrument:

OiRA Steering Committee

The OiRA project is developed by EU-OSHA, in partnership with its

stakeholders through the OiRA Steering Committee:

• EU social partners - ETUC, BusinessEurope, UEAPME

• Government representatives

• The European Commission

• The Dutch government and Dutch social partners

• Agency representatives

The mission of the OiRA Steering Committee:

• To give strategic and expert advice to the Agency on the

development, implementation and promotion of the OiRA tool

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EU- Social dialogue

partners

Micro &

small companies

OiRA target audience

• EU sectoral social partners

• Already on board: Private Security &

Leather and Tanning

19.39 million micro and small enterprises in

the EU27

National level• 27 EU Member States + Norway, Iceland

und Liechtenstein + accession countries

• Public/National OSH Institutes

• Social Partners

EU-OSHAOiRA

Steering

Committee

EU-OSHA

intermediaries

Micro &

small companies

OiRA tools generator

OiRA tools

available in 15 languages

11 tools available

60 under development

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Project Values

The OiRA philosophy :

• Provision of free and open source software

• More than a software, a diffusion model where social partners

play a key role

• OiRA tools available to the end-users free of charge

• Development of an OiRA community:

− Sharing tools (possibility to clone and translate/adapt tools

from other countries/sectors)

− Sharing of experiences/good practice

OiRA Drivers - New generation of RA tools

• Main features

• Easy access, easy to use, free, …

• Role of OiRA/interactive tools: “empower”, foster the autonomy of micro and small companies when it comes to RA (self-assessment)

• Advantages of OiRA/interactive tools:

• Diffusion/dissemination facilitated through Internet

• Evolutionary content (“easy-immediate” update)

• Didactic/methodological dimension (RA method: from Risk Identification

to documenting the RA)

• Access to other sources of information/documentation (through the links)

• Access to online help tools (didactic/pedagogic tools to be developed)

• Possibility to monitor the development and use of such tools

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OiRA Drivers 2. New generation of RA tools

• There is a more and more common perception that such tools …

• Are the future

• Need to be developed by governments/ministries/public

institutions and offered for free

• The EU OSH strategy and most of the national ones mention (more or less explicitly) the need to develop such practical/simple tools to facilitate the RA process among micro and small companies.

OiRA drivers - Offer a new service / product to the companies

• Our OiRA partners did not offer these kinds of tools to their members/target audience

• Motivations:

• Employers’ organisations: better meet the needs of their

members

• Ministries/Labour Inspectorate:

• implement the national strategies,

• facilitate RA by putting OiRA at the disposal of the

micro and smalls companies.

• Trade Unions: be more present among micro and small

companies

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OiRA national partners

BE – Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social DialogueBG – General Labour Inspectorate Executive AgencyCZ – Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsCY – Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, Department of Labour InspectionEL – Ministry of Labour & Social Security, Directorate of Working Conditions & HealthES – Catalonia Generalitat of Catalonia – Departament d´́́́Empresa i OcupacióIS – National AuthoritiesIT - The Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche SocialiLV – State Labour InspectorateLT – State Labour InspectorateMT – Occupational Health and Safety AuthorityPT – Autoridade para as Condiçoes do Trabalho – ACTSI – Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs of the Rep. of SloveniaSK – Labour Inspectorate

Preliminary contacts:

HU – National Authorities

OiRA national partners / collaborations

OSH national institutes

• INRS (Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité pour la prévention desaccidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles) – France

• FIOH (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health) – Finland• ELINYAE (Hellenic Institute for Occupational Health and Safety) - Greece

EU – OSHA collaborates with National Authorities / OSH instituteshaving developed interactive risk assessments tools similar to OiRA:

• INSHT – Spain,• HSA – Ireland,• HSE-UK,• TNO – RIE steunpunt – Netherlands

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Thank you

For further information visit:

http://www.oiraproject.eu

Or contact:

Lorenzo Munar by email at munar@osha.europa.eu