Key factors influencing OSH compliance

  • Legislation: provides the essential framework for OSH, but is not sufficient on its own to ensure compliance.
  • Enforcement: new and innovative approaches are emerging, for example using AI and digitalisation or co-enforcement approaches.
  • Prevention services: their efficiency, accessibility and suitability to different types of enterprises shape compliance outcomes.
  • Compliance in practice: varies significantly across enterprise sizes, with micro and small businesses facing distinct barriers while large enterprises can be influential drivers of improvement.
  • Business incentives: Success factors such as reputation and productivity, and external incentives from accident insurances or tax benefits can motivate compliance.
  • Supply chains: Increasingly important, as business relationships can raise OSH standards.
  • Social reporting: Societal norms and peer expectations are playing a growing role in shaping OSH behaviour.

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During the learning process, sport and exercise play an important role. The challenges require good physical condition and balance. Sport courses enable apprentices to develop both skills and competences that will be useful in their working lives. Today, one in six occupational accidents among apprentices occur during a sports class.

A particular goal of learning is to stay accident-free and healthy. This is because apprentices are injured much more than their experienced colleagues. Sadly:these accidents cost the lives of an average of three apprentices every year.

This workbook shows you what you need to pay special attention to you need to pay particular attention to in order to complete your apprenticeship safely. 

Your trainer will go through it with you step by step in the weeks and months ahead.

Apprentices account for 25,000 occupational accidents per year, including three year, including three fatal cases. This situation can and must be avoided. prevented. Apprentices are new to the profession and to the company.

company. They need the support of trainers and supervisors. supervisors. It is important that you give them a targeted introduction safety at work from day one.