The 2023-2024 SLIC campaign “Improving the prevention of accidents at work” aims to strengthen the culture of accident prevention, both in organisations and among individual workers, in line with a “Vision Zero” approach to work-related deaths in the European Union.
The Occupational Health Inspection of the Hellenic Labour Inspectorate takes part in this campaign, and will conduct on-site inspections in selected sectors of economic activity from March till June 2024.
Aims of the campaign
The campaign aims at:
- Increasing awareness of the risks related to work-related accidents in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in specific sectors of activity;
- Providing guidance to the enterprises for adopting accident/incident investigation procedures, and for identifying and addressing the causes of these accidents, in order to prevent their reoccurrence;
- Strengthening enforcement of existing rules and guidelines on occupational health and safety.
Sectors in the campaign
The campaign will be conducted in the following three sectors:
- Agriculture and forestry (NACE code: Section A 01 and 02)
- Construction (NACE code: Section F 41, 42 and 43)
- Other passenger land transport and freight transport by road and removal services (NACE code: Section Η3 and 49.4)