Sidst revideret: 19. July 2024
General prevention principles
Annex 1 to the Danish Working Environment Authority’s Executive Order no. 65 on systematic occupational health and safety work
- Prevention of risks.
- Evaluation of risks that cannot be prevented.
- Mitigating risks at the source.
- Adapting the work to humans, in particular as regards workplace design and the selection of work equipment and work and production methods, especially with a view to reducing monotonous and repetitive work and the effects of such work on health.
- Taking into account technical developments.
- Replacing what is hazardous with something that is safe or less hazardous.
- Planning preventive measures to make them a coherent whole within which preventive measures includes techniques, work organisation, working conditions, social relations and the impacts of factors in the work environment.
- Adopting collective protection measures rather than individual protection measures.
- Appropriate instruction of workers.