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Belgium: Prevent - Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Aims
Prevent is a multidisciplinary institute which seeks to minimise occupational risks by promoting the quality of working conditions and by improving work organisation.

Activities
The institute is active in research and supports, advises and informs companies and institutions, as well as workplace-accident insurance companies, external occupational prevention and protection services, professional associations, the social partners, authorities and other stakeholders. Its national and international training activities are organised through the Prevent Academy for Working Life.

Prevent is dedicated to the development, collection and mobilisation of knowledge about occupational health and safety. Its activities are mainly directed towards gathering, developing and transferring knowledge in the field of occupational safety, health and well-being at work. To this end, the institute carries out research activities and surveys that are focused on actual practice. It collects information and documentation from all over the world.

Research, policy and practice
Focussing on policy, research and implementation, Prevents research centre sets up study projects or participates in national and international research projects. The institute is also firmly rooted in practice, keeping its finger on the pulse and passing on knowledge and information to those who need to turn it into reality: employers, employees and experts. Prevent also has a societal and policy-supporting function. The institute supports European, federal and regional governments, has contacts with the social partners and takes account of the collective dimension of OSH policy.

Stakeholders at national level
Prevent cooperates with the Federal Public Service for Employment, Work and Social Dialogue, with employers’ and workers’ organisations and with other specialised occupational health and safety organisations. Prevent is a member of the Belgian Council for Occupational Safety and Health and Wellbeing at Work; this council is an advisory body to the Minister of Work. Prevent has developed a successful partnership with the occupational accident insurance companies.

Networks
Prevent has built up an extensive network of partner organisations and belongs to all relevant major European and international networks. PreventLux, Centre de promotion du bien-être au travail, is the regional branch of Prevent, which is operational in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.



Prevent, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Veronique De Broeck
Public Affairs Coordinator
Rue Gachard 88/4
B - 1050 Brussels
Belgium
Tel.+ 32 2 643 44 44
Fax + 32 2 643 44 40
veronique.debroeck@prevent.be
http://www.prevent.be