ABSTRACT

Health and safety at work is now one of the most important and most highly developed aspects of EU policy on employment and social affairs. Thanks to the adoption and application in recent decades of a large body of EU laws, it has been possible to improve working conditions in the EU member states and make considerable progress in reducing the incidence of work-related accidents and occupational diseases. The new strategy for 2007-2012 proposes to step up our ambition and to aim for a 25 % reduction in the total incidence rate of accidents at work by 2012 by improving health and safety protection for workers and as one major contribution to the success of the growth and employment strategy. By one of approaches in the Czech Republic how to meet the target is implementation of occupational safety and health management system with the help of free available program "Safe Enterprise", which is introduced by following text.