Traduction de «national health and safety committee » (Anglais → Français) :

To raise Nation-wide awareness of internationally agreed normative documents of relevance, namely the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Workshop Agreement, ISO 15793:2011 Laboratory biorisk management, ISO 15189:2007 Medical laboratories — Particular requirements for quality and competence, ISO 15190:2003 Medical laboratories — Requirements for safety, ISO/IEC 17025:2005 General requirements for the competence of testing ...[+++] and calibration laboratories, ISO 9001:2008 Quality management systems — Requirements, as well as ISO 14001:2004 Environmental management systems — Requirements with guidance for use, involving national health policy makers as well as laboratory managers and staff who are encouraged to commit to a transparent and accountable culture of biosafety, biosecurity and laboratory quality systems.

The agency is working on this matter with the union at the local and national levels and has shared the strategy with them through the national health and safety policy committee.

‘Health and safety at work - Advisory Committee on Health and Safety at Work’ on the European Commission's website.

(9) The structure of the Advisory Committee on Safety, Hygiene and Health Protection at Work should be retained with changes made to streamline its operation and with a clear statement of the horizontal nature of its competences to cover all public and private sectors of activity in accordance with the scope of Community legislation on health and safety at work.

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety is a well-respected source for information on national health and safety issues, but it lacks the investigative and enforcement powers necessary to protect Canadian workers in general and firefighters in particular.

TRAINING On the training front, the Commission plans : - to ask CEDEFOP to take these issues into account in its work on the training of instructors; - to encourage, under its draft programme on the training and preparation of young people for working life, joint initiatiives relating to training, the development of educational materials and improvements in the methods used to ensure health, hygiene and safety at work. SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED UNDERTAKINGS The Commissin will devote particular attention to the problems encountered by small business and consequently during the period 1988-91 intends : - to review the ex ...[+++]tent to which the existing regulations are understood and applied in this field, by studying a sample and medium-sized undertakings; - to carry out a study of the special rules and exemptions applicable to small business in national health and safety legislation and to assess the need for action and for the harmonization of legislation; - to study the influence of new work layouts on health, hygiene and safety in small business; - to study how health and safety regulations can be made readily understandable to owners of small businesses; - to prepare information manuals containing advice for those setting up small businesses; - to prepare safety training modules aimed at those setting up small businesses; - to develop a system to enable small businesses to have a rapid access to information on safety equipment and individual protective equipment.