Good Practice Awards 2010-2011
As part of the European Campaign 2010-2011 on Safe Maintenance, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work organised for the tenth time the European Good Practice Awards in occupational health and safety. The awards aim to demonstrate, by example, the benefits of following good safety and health practices to all European employers and workers. The 2010-11 competition recognised companies or organisations that have made outstanding and innovative contributions to promote safe maintenance.
The European Good Practice Awards competition is run as a two-stage process: following a selection procedure at national level, a European Jury validates and assesses the examples submitted to the Agency. In the same way as in previous years, in the first half of 2010 the EU-OSHA Focal Points collected examples of good practice in the participating Member States and Turkey and organised a tripartite evaluation. The two best national examples were selected to be entered into the European level selection process.
This year the Agency received 40 good practice entries from 23 countries.
Award winners
| Title | Country | Company | Sector | Issue |
Using technology and
organisation to achieve
safer maintenance | Austria | voestalpine Hytronics GmbH and voestalpine Weichensysteme GmbH | Production of raw iron, steel and ferro alloys – subcategory
production of rail products
Production of other electrical equipment and instruments | Overall new concept of prevention measures regarding maintenance |
| Coordinating repair and maintenance with the client | Spain | Protón Electrónica SLU | Repair of electronic equipment | Repair and maintenance of
electrical and electronic equipment |
| Proactive and reactive interventions to improve maintenance safety | Malta | Actavis Ltd | Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and
pharmaceutical preparations | Improving maintenance safety |
| Healthy Firefighters | Sweden | Skellefteå Räddningstjänst | Fire service activities | Participatory development of safe work routines |
| Management of preventive and corrective maintenance | Portugal | Sonae | Retail trade in supermarkets and hypermarkets | Safe repair and maintenance of workplaces and work equipment |
| Maintaining and repairing horticultural glasshouses safely and efficiently | The Netherlands | GHT - Glass Handling TechnicVof | Horticulture | Maintaining horticultural
glasshouses |
| Competent maintenance teams | United Kingdom | Tarmac West Region | Mining and quarrying manufacture of concrete products for construction purposes | Safe Maintenance through the development of core competences |
| Comprehensive approach to maintenance starting from the design of the work area | Belgium | STIB-MIVB | Support activities for transportation | Building and running a maintenance depot that guarantees a maximum of safety and staff wellbeing |
Good Practice Examples
The examples presented in this booklet (in English only) were entries in the Good Practice Awards Competition 2010–11 run by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work as part of its European Campaign on Safe Maintenance.
The short summaries in the booklet present the eight winning entries and 15 commended entries in the competition, describing the measures taken and the results achieved. The entries came from a wide variety of organisations. Examples ranged from participatory development of safe work routines for firefighters to solutions for maintaining and repairing horticultural glasshouses safely and efficiently to implementing a comprehensive approach to maintenance during the design of a maintenance depot for metro trains.
In all these cases employees or their representatives were involved in identifying problems and developing solutions. This was seen as an important success factor. Every workplace is different; therefore, solutions have to be developed to match the specific problems and needs of that particular workplace based on an adequate risk assessment. However, the ideas and concepts presented in this booklet can be adapted across industry sectors and Member States and in organisations of different types and sizes.
Jury
An evaluation panel – the Good Practice Awards Jury - including representatives of the four interest groups of the EU-OSHA Board and an expert in the subject, validates and assesses the national examples submitted, and selects a small number of award, winners and commended examples. The exact number of awards cannot be specified before the Jury evaluates the entries.
The Good Practice Awards Jury meeting for 2010-2011 Competition was held on 11-12 November 2010.
Chair:
- Dr Lothar Lissner Kooperationsstelle Hamburg IFE GmbH
Jury Members:
- Jesús Alvarez European Commission - DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
- Willy Imbrechts Federal Public Service Employment Labour and Social Dialogue
- Viktor Kempa European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety
- Hendrik de Lange FEB-VBO
Participation criteria
What should the good practice examples demonstrate?
- relevance to the theme of safemaintenance;
- interventions aimed at the workplace;
- risks eliminated or tackled at source;
- an effective, pragmatic, structured approach to maintenance;
- successful implementation;
- real improvements;
- effective participation and involvement of the workforce and their representatives;
- account taken of the diversity of the workforce;
- sustainability over time;
- going beyond simple compliance with all relevant legislative requirements;
- the possibility of transfer to other workplaces, including those in other Member States and to SMEs;
- currency, i.e. the example should be recent or not widely publicised.
Who can take part?
Good practice examples will be accepted from enterprises or organisations in the EU-27 Member States, plus the western Balkan countries and Turkey including:
- individual enterprises, fromwhich entries are particularly welcomed;
- enterprises or organisations within the product, equipment or personnel supply chain;
- training providers and the education community;
- employer organisations, trade associations, trade unions and non-governmental organisations;
- regional or local occupational health and safety prevention services, insurance services and other intermediary organisations.
Good practice e examples should not have been developed solely for commercial profit. This particularly relates to products, tools or services that are or could bemarketed. Examples focused on the individual, such as training, should also demonstrate how they are part of a wider riskmanagement approach tomaintenance.
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