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.