The European agency for health and safety and accidents at work

The European Agency for Health and Safety at Work collects and disseminates information about health and safety practices in the workplace and works to create a safer, healthier and more productive working environment to prevent accidents at work.

Health and safety at work is high on the list of EU's health and safety priorities. Every five seconds a worker in the EU experiences a personal injury as the result of an industrial accident or accident at work. Every two hours a worker dies in an accident at work.

The European Agency for Safety and Health at work was set up in 1996 to collect, analyse and promote occupational safety and health information. The Agency's mission is to make Europe's workplaces safer, healthier and more productive and to promote an effective prevention culture.

The Agency's managerial set-up comprises a director, a governing board made up of representatives of government, employers and workers from the 25 Member States as well as representatives of the European Commission.

Every year, the Agency hosts the European Week for Safety and Health at Work - dedicated to young people to ensure that they get a safe and healthy start to their working lives.

At the end of last year, a Wise Up to Work scheme was also launched to improve health and safety work practices and to reduce the number of accidents at work.

Giving young workers a safe start
The Agency is responsible for the promotion of videos like 'Safe Start' designed for new entrants to the labour market including migrant and temporary workers. The characters in the video provide amusing storylines and humour to promote work safety practices.

The Safe Start summit takes place every year to discuss health and safety issues. The closing event will be held this year, 2007, at the Euskladuna Conference Centre in Bilbao, Spain, in March.

A formal opening plenary session with contributions from key political partners is followed by workshop sessions and discussion groups. Health and Safety videos to prevent accidents at work will be featured along with a closing statement from the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.

Maive Rute, Director for Promotion of SME's Competitiveness at the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry and Deputy SME Envoy says: "The Euro Info Centre Network, with a longstanding experience in informing and raising awareness among SMEs, is contributing to and supporting the Agency's campaign to ensure that young workers benefit from the highest standards of health and safety in the workplace."

Read more about the Agency at www.osha.europe.eu.

Accident at work compensation claims
Across the EU, employers are striving to improve workplace safety and working conditions in order to reduce the number of work accidents and work accident compensation claims.

However, current legislation is often difficult to implement and some employers continue to cut corners. New employees are often not trained properly and many younger employers who are inexperienced don't know their rights. Site inspections don't happen as regularly as they should and as a result, accidents at work continue to occur.

Here at YouClaim we can help you make an accident at work compensation claim. We work on a no win, no fee basis and guarantee that at no point will you have to pay us anything. You will be able to keep 100 % of all compensation that is awarded to you as part of your accident at work compensation claim.

You have nothing to lose and everything to gain so why not get some free legal advice and find out more about how we can help you.

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