Preventive measures
Examples of preventive measures that can contribute to ensure that the impact on the psychosocial environment of workers are fully responsible with due regard to health and safety:
- Responsible planning and organisation of the work.
- Adequate and appropriate training and instruction in carrying out the work.
- Effective supervision of the work.
- Proper design of the work site.
- Correct use of technical aids that must be suitable for, or adapted to the work.
- Possibility for support in the work, including managerial and collegial support.
- Possibility of influence in relation to the work to be performed.
General prevention principles
(Cf. article 6, part 2 of Council Directive 89/391/EEC on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers). The general prevention principles are:
- Prevention of risks.
- Evaluation of risks that cannot be prevented.
- Combating risks at source.
- Adapting work to the worker, particularly with regard to workplace design and choice of equipment, working and production methods, especially with regard to limiting monotonous work and work in a constant rhythm and to reduce the effects of such work on health.
- Regard to technical developments.
- Replacement of anything hazardous with something that is non- or less hazardous.
- Planning prevention to make it a cohesive part of the whole, within which prevention covers techniques, organising work, working conditions, social relationships and the effects of factors in the working environment.
- The adoption of measures for collective protection rather than for individual protection.
- Appropriate instruction of workers.