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Welcome to the Greek Focal Point
of the European Agency for Safety & Health at Work 

You are visiting the corporate informative portal
of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.

You can find here information on Occupational Safety and Health from Greece
as well as from all the other Members States of the European Union,
via a surfing system of a common structure.

 

European Campaign "Healthy Workplaces" 2008-2009

"Risk Assessment"     

 

      

     

     

The two-year  european campaign "Healthy Workplaces" on risk assessment is to promote an integrated management approach that takes into account the different steps of risk assessment.

The campaign seeks to convey clearly that risk assessment is a systematic examination of all aspects of the work undertaken to consider what can cause injury or harm, whether the hazards can be eliminated and, if not, what preventive or protective measures are, or should be, in place to control the risks.

It also promotes the idea of a participatory approach, since it is essential for the workforce to be consulted and involved in the risk assessment to ensure that hazards are identified not only from principles of knowledge but also by knowledge of working conditions and patterns of adverse effects upon workers.

Risk assessment with its component of worker involvement is one of the key elements in building a sustainable prevention culture.

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The Greek Focal Point
of the European Agency for Safety & Health at Work

 

The National Focal Point of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work is the authorized organization in Greece for the development of the hellenic section of the portal of the European Agency.

The National Focal Point in order to interlink all information on OSH issues at national and European level, has undertaken the effort to establish a National OSH Information Network, for providing OSH information using Internet capabilities and for actively interconnect on-line all national network members. This website site reflects the national status of Occupational Health & Safety, via an enacted collaboration with Social Partners.

The Tripartite Collaboration Committee is the fundamental institutional body for the support of actions on OSH and the promotion of the Hellenic National Focal Point work. It is constituted on the basis of the institutionally imposed implementation concerning the participation at national level of all social partners in OSH issues. This is in equivalence with the tripartite base representation in the Administrative Board of the European Agency, where are participating governmental representatives and representatives of employers and workers organisations from all Member States.

For the present, representatives from the following organisations are participating in the Tripartite Collaboration Committee of our National OSH Information Network:

GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF WORKING CONDITIONS AND HEALTH, is the authorized agency in the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection for safety and health at work issues.

The Agency is consisting of three Directorates:

- the Directorate for Working Conditions,

- the Centre for Occupational Health
  and Safety (K.Y.A.E.), and

- the Directorate for OSH Information Management,
  Training and Monitoring of policies on OSH issues.

  • Directorate for Working Conditions. It prepares legislative acts for OSH, disseminates information, proposes measures to the Political Leadership and supports the activities of the regional services (Labour Inspectorate) and provides consultation and information on OSH issues.

  • Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (K.Y.A.E.), is a Centre of applied OSH research with laboratorial equipment for measurements of physical and chemical agents. It carries out research programmes and provides scientific and technical support to the Labour Inspectors. Since the establishment of the Agency for Health Safety at Work, it has been appointed and was operating for more than a decade as National Focal Point for Greece.

  • Directorate for OSH Information Management, Training and Monitoring of policies on OSH issues. All relevant responsibilities and activities concerning the Greek Focal Point have been undertaken by this new Directorate formed during 2005, under the General Directorate of Working Conditions and Health of the Hellenic Ministry of Employment and Social Protection (Ministerial Decision 80025, FEK No 845/9-6-2004),  following a recent reforming in the organisational structure of the General Directorate of Working Conditions and Health.

 

HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (EL.IN.Y.A.E.), the Hellenic Institute for Occupational Health and Safety is a non-profit organization, founded by the country's most significant employers and workers organizations: the Association of the Greek Industries (S.E.V.) and the Hellenic Trade Unions Confederation (GE.S.E.E.). Having mainly an advisory role, it provides expert and advisory services to enterprises and trade unions in the field of OSH, in particular within the areas of information, research, training and education.