The International Labor Organization (ILO) establishes the principle that workers should be protected against diseases in general, or occupational diseases and accidents resulting from their work. This is the idea that presided over the founding law of 1946 establishing the creation of business associations to pool means of prevention.
The challenges of prevention
Today, in a changing society and a complex socio-economic and environmental context, workers not only want a job and a salary, their personal aspirations encourage them to do work that makes sense to them.
Risk prevention at work also means reduced absenteeism, employees who are able to keep up, teams who live well, employees who have ideas, desire and energy. All that is human performance for the company. So economic performance.
This is why the employer must work for the health and safety of its employees, an obligation enshrined in the Labor Code. It turns out that public health and occupational health actors have the same mission: to preserve the health of people. If the fields of action are different, their complementarity is necessary and their joint action indispensable.
Each action carried out by occupational health professionals aims to preserve the health of workers and their ability to remain in employment throughout their working life.
Prevention in 9 principles
Preventing occupational risks involves the implementation of measures aimed at preserving the health and safety of workers, improving working conditions and seeking people’s well-being at work.
Nine general principles have been defined to structure the organization of prevention (Labour Code, article L.4121-2):
- Avoid risks, whenever possible
- Assess risks that cannot be avoided
- Fighting risks at source
- Adapt the work to the man
- Take into account the evolution of technology
- Replace what is dangerous with what is not or less so
- Planning prevention by integrating technique
- First take collective protection measures
- Give appropriate instructions to employees
Consult our prevention advice files: www.sstrn.fr/thematiques-de-prevention
2023-04-24 14:05:47
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