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.
