Aims
The guidelines aim to harmonise the procedures for preventing and investigating Legionella infections among Member States. They provide technical guidance for those involved in designing, installing, commissioning, assessing the risks of and managing building water systems. The guidance is intended especially for those carrying out investigations following reports of travel-associated Legionnaires' disease, investigating Legionnaires' disease outbreaks, and implementing remedial works and control measures.

Directive 98/24/EC lays down provisions for the protection of workers from the risks related to chemical agents. Article 12 of the Directive requires the Commission to issue guidance on Articles 3, 4, 5 and 6, and Annex II.1.3. This publication fulfils this requirement and therefore does not cover the whole Directive but only the subjects of the Articles mentioned, which are:

The NEPSI industry sector organisations and their counterpart trade union federations negotiated a multisectoral social dialogue Agreement between 1 September 2005 and 2 February 2006. NEPSI stands for European Network for Silica and brings together a wide range of industrial sectors and labour unions concerned by occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica.

The Agreement aims at

Directive 2002/44/EC on the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (vibration) sets minimum protection requirements for workers when they are exposed, in the course of their work, to risks arising from vibration.