The European Federation of Building and Woodworkers, EFBWW, the European Construction Industry Federation, FIEC, and the Committee for European Construction Equipment, CECE, decided to apply for a joint project aiming at improving the safety and health conditions when working with construction machinery.
The overall objective was to increase workplace safety and health by direct collaboration between producers and users of specific types of machinery.
Several deliverables have been produced, giving easy understandable information on various topics for both sides, manufacturers and users, employers and workers and their representatives but also for experts of occupational safety and health in companies.
Furthermore, the project also provides information to the European standardisation institutions and formulated policy options to foster the future improvement of machinery design, the underlying standards and their safe use in construction work.
The project contributed to various EU-principles and policies, i.e. among others: social dialogue, subsidiarity principle, occupational safety and health at work, new approach for standardisation.
The structure of the project partners allows for the project results to be disseminated all over Europe. Expertise from this project and all its results can be used as input for any activity of the European legislator on both levels, legal as well as standardisation.
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