Traduction de «Service de prévention des risques » (Français → Anglais) :

41. Stresses the importance of investing more in risk-prevention policies as well as promoting, developing and supporting a culture of prevention as regards health and safety at work; calls on the Member States to promote awareness raising and give greater prominence to prevention and occupational health and safety in school curricula at all levels, including during apprenticeships; considers it important to focus on prevention as early as possible in the production process and promote implementation of systematic prevention programmes based on risk assessments which encourage employers and employees to contribute to a safe and healthy ...[+++] work environment; points out that in many Member States the quality of preventive services is key to supporting companies, in particular SMEs, to carry out risk assessment and take adequate preventive measures; calls on the Commission to examine the tasks and training requirements of preventive services laid down in national legislation by the Member States;

47. Points out that about 50% of workers in the EU still have no access to preventive services, especially as regards SMEs and subcontracting chains; highlights that most existing services are not fully multidisciplinary and many do not properly reflect the hierarchy of preventive measures laid down in the Framework Directive; believes that all workers, those in the public and also in the private sector, should be covered by risk-prevention arrangements as well as effective prevention policies, including accessibility arrangements, ...[+++]training courses and workshops for workers, and special attention should be paid to the situation of vulnerable workers, including people having to take part in mandatory work activity schemes without previous training and necessary skills; also believes that the new forms of employment should be taken into account so as to ensure that prevention and monitoring measures cover all workers, in particular vulnerable workers, regardless of the type of work that they do and their employment arrangements; hopes that the target will be one safety advisor for every 3 000 employees;

In order to be able to take more effective action on forest fire prevention, the EU has at its disposal observation mechanisms such as the EFFIS (European Forest Fire Information System, set up by the Forest Focus Programme), capable of providing fairly precise information as to the level of fire-risk in a specific area or region; and prevention work is also assisted by the most up-to-date and sophisticated satellite observation systems, which are constantly being upgraded.

T. whereas fewer than 1% of women in the countries most seriously affected by HIV have access to services for the prevention of transmission of that virus from mother to child, and 3.2 million children under the age of 15 are infected with HIV, and whereas half of all new HIV infections affect young people, including girls and young women who constitute a very high-risk category, reflecting the need for specific HIV prevention programmes for young people,

comprehensive prevention services pro-actively offering tailored information and best practice models to companies; a key element would be trained prevention advisers with suitably broad backgrounds who could support in-house risk assessments and follow-up measures on both new and traditional topics;

Some of the health and related preventative services (e.g. air and water quality online information) could be expanded to a trans-European level through the eTEN programme.