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Sign our European Safe Start Charter!

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Now is your chance to make sure that young people have a safe and healthy start to their working lives, and to promote risk awareness and risk prevention in enterprises, schools and colleges.

European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2006 is an opportunity to participate in the Safe Start campaign to make workplaces safer and healthier for young people at work and for those about to enter the world of work.

You can support a Europe-wide campaign to promote risk prevention and risk awareness in the workplace and in the education community. If you and your organisation would like to be active in the campaign and conduct activities during European Week, 23-27 October 2006, you are eligible to sign the Safe Start Charter and to have your efforts recognised by means of a certificate of participation.

Run by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, and its network partners, Safe Start seeks to involve young workers, their representatives, and their employers and supervisors. It also seeks to encourage the youth and education community to prepare young people for work, and to involve individual schools, classrooms, training centres, and students themselves.

There are many initiatives and activities, and more examples are published on the Agency’s website. Here are just a few ideas:

  • Risk assessments
  • Safety demonstrations
  • Displays and exhibitions
  • Training events
  • Seminars and workshops
  • Poster competitions and quizzes
  • Film, video and multimedia
  • Advertising and promotion campaigns
  • Partnerships enterprises and schools/colleges/training centres
  • Good neighbour schemes between large and small employers
  • Suggestion schemes
  • Hazard spotting
  • Inspection days
  • Press conferences and media activities
  • Building risk awareness and prevention into other activities

These are just some examples - you are welcome to use your own creativity in thinking up other initiatives. The main condition is that the activities fall within the framework outlined in the European Safe Start Charter.

Once you sign up to the Charter, using the electronic form, the Agency will send you a personalised certificate in recognition of your commitment to improving health and safety for those at work and for those about to enter the world of work.

European Safe Start Charter Form

It´s easy! Simply complete the electric form, providing the information requested and hit the submit button. You will then receive an email from us along with an official electronic EUropean Safe Start Certificate acknowledging your organisation´s commitment to the Safe Start campaign.

Online Application Form

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We will issue a personalised email certificate based on the information you provide us, in the language of the online application form filled in. If you require a certificate in a different language, please fill in an application form in the language required, using the language change function at the top right-hand corner of this page.

Please note that you may be contacted for more details of your campaign activities to be used in promotional material by the Agency.

Our partners
EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
"Our message is that we all share responsibility for protecting young people at work. Employers have a duty of care and are legally responsible for the health and safety of their workers, and EU law recognises that young people need special protection. But this is also an issue for parents, for health and safety professionals, and for the education community. And ultimately, it's an issue for policymakers. We all have to work together, to make sure that young people have a safe and healthy start to their working lives."

Vladimír Špidla, EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities