The Community Strategy on safety and health at work (2002-2006) calls for specific measures in terms of information, awareness and risk prevention programmes for SMEs and especially for very small businesses. This has been reinforced by a recent Commission Communication on the implementation of...

Throughout the EU there is a growing recognition that standards of occupational safety and health in construction have to be improved. Each year, in the original EU-15 Member States alone, about 1300 workers are killed, another 800,000 injured and countless more suffer ill health1. The human...