Prevent develops research projects in close collaboration with other institutes and organisations in Belgium and abroad. An overview of the current projects.
In several sectors working with contractors, communication is not always without problems. Foreign employees often do not understand instructions because they do not know the language.
On behalf of the European Commission, and in conjunction with two German partners, KOOP and TNS Infratest, Prevent is developing a methodology for the evaluation of European OSH directives, applicable to all member states.
In preparation for the development of a health and safety strategy in Luxembourg, Prevent evaluated the policy and activities of the Labour Inspectorate and the existing forms of collaboration with and between the prevention partners.
THESEIS is a European research project that developed, tested and disseminated an innovative training model in the field of employee health and safety in the green industry. The project’s focus is on the waste processing sector.
Prevent is collaborating as a partner in the Support@Work project, which gives victims of traffic accidents support with retaining or looking for work.
On behalf of the Federal Public Service for Employment, Work and Social Dialogue, Prevent is evaluating the national strategy on well-being at work 2008-2012.
The Serious Safety Game aims to reinforce the knowledge and skills of young people in the logistical sector with regard to safe and healthy working, using new learning methods.
Toolboxlab is developing a free four-day training programme (incl. online platform), which in the first phase will be tested out in the Belgian construction sector. On the basis of this, the training will then be rolled out in Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.
On behalf of the Federal Public Service for Employment, Work and Social Dialogue, Prevent has developed an online risk analysis tool for the hairdressing sector.
Prevent collaborates as a partner in a European Leonardo Da Vinci partnership project aimed at the exhange of knowledge on the impact of safety and health at work on productivity (Health and Safety at Work and Productivity HesaPro).
Since 2008, the European Commission has been involved in research into the impact of restructurings in companies on workers’ welfare. It has set up three successive projects, for which Prevent is the Belgian partner: Hires (Health in Restructuring), Hires Plus and Hires Public.
Prevent collaborated on a report on all existing policy strategies and practice examples within Europe for encouraging and increasing social innovation at work and hence the quality of work.
Various strategies and methods exist for measuring and analysing an organisation’s occupational safety and health culture. The project’s goal was to collect all such existing strategies and methods.
Prevent is a partner in the European research project that studies the effects of the larg-scale restructuring of the local governments in Greece (Kallikratis) on the health of the employees.
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