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More attention paid
to preventing occupational hazards
Exchange of safety, health, and well being
experiences and good practices with Europe
On 5 and 6 June 2013, FCC attended the
seminar entitled “Comparison and exchan-
ge of good practices in occupational safe-
ty and health” sponsored by the European
Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-
OSHA) as part of the “Healthy Workplaces
campaign: working together to prevent
risks” of which our group is an official Euro-
pean collaborator.
During the seminar, some of the leading
European companies and other agents in-
volved from the public and private sectors,
submitted their best practices in the field
of work safety and health and participated
in a debate and exchange of knowledge in
order to promote increasingly better mea-
sures at organizations and to achieve safer
and healthier workplaces.
The topics discussed by the working
groups included: “Learning a lesson from
accidents”, “The training of a leader”; Pre-
ventive culture in the organization”; “How
to motivate and support a small company”;
“Safety and Health regulations and their in-
fluence on construction”.
On 6 June 2013, the National Institute for
Safety and Health at Work (INHST) brought
together managers and employees from
seven Spanish companies, including FCC,
and experts on safety and health at work
plus journalists from the specialised media
to present examples of Good Practices in
leadership and participation.
FCC collaborated in the 2012-13 European
“Working together to prevent risks” spon-
sored by the European Agency and its Net-
work of Reference Centres which achieved
a large participation of Spanish companies
and organizations in the 11th edition of the
European Good Practices Awards.
INSHT, the reference centre of the European
The first day of the seminar was concluded
with the certificates given out confirming
the company as an official European colla-
borator. One of the guests at the event was
Lászlo Andor, European Commissioner for
Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion,
who pointed out that he was quite impres-
sed by the good work being carried out by
these companies.
In this way, FCC becomes fully involved
in developing global actions coordinated
within the European Union, identifying itself
Agency, organised a round table discussion
as part of its contribution to this campaign
to disseminate the successful experiences
in various companies. FCC, which partici-
pated in this event with another six com-
panies, discussed its experiences with the
media regarding joint collaboration to im-
prove safety and health conditions at work.
This experience was shared with INSHT ex-
perts who had the opportunity of learning
about the details of the best examples sub-
mitted and of participating with managers,
workers, and journalists in the final sympo-
sium.
and participating in the exchange of expe-
riences and mutual enrichment and colla-
borating with leading entities such as the
European Agency.
Additional information on the “Healthy
Workplaces campaign: working together to
prevent risks” campaign is available at the
following website:
http://www.healthy-workplaces.eu/en/
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