The Spanish Labour and Social Security Inspectorate (ITSS) is participating in the European campaign to prevent occupational accidents Accidents at work: Improving prevention by deploying a series of actions to verify companies’ compliance with occupational health and safety regulations.

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Spanish Labour Inspectorate participates in the European campaign

European Campaign SLIC 2024 Accidents at work: Improving preventionEuropean Campaign SLIC 2024 Accidents at work: Improving prevention.

The campaign, which has been designed and coordinated by the Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee of the European Union (SLIC), is being carried out simultaneously in all 27 countries of the European Union (EU).

This type of action aims to ensure a common approach, on this occasion zero accidents at work, for the uniform and effective implementation of health and safety regulations in workplaces, adopting homogeneous inspection criteria and practices throughout the EU.

The Labour and Social Security Inspectorate has participated in the different European campaigns that have been designed and prepared by SLIC on a biannual basis. In 2010 the focus was on hazardous substances; in 2012 on psychosocial risks; in 2014 on falls; in 2018 on health and safety in Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs) and in 2022 on musculoskeletal disorders at work.

The European Campaign SLIC 2024 Accidents at Work: Improving prevention has been designed in line with the EU Strategic Framework for Health and Safety at Work 2021-2027. Safety and health at work in a changing world of work, aiming at improving safety and health conditions in the working environment and the adoption by employers of measures to ensure safe working conditions.

In addition to verifying companies’ compliance with occupational health and safety regulations, the Inspectorate will also supervise risk prevention measures and corrective measures subsequently adopted to eliminate the risk that has caused harm to a worker.

Information on the details of this campaign and the objectives it aims to achieve is also available on the website of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate, as well as various documents specific to the sectors covered by the campaign and links to websites with relevant information on the subject.