The policy advice is a dynamic instrument to assist smaller employers who do not have an internal prevention adviser of at least level II, in developing an effective prevention policy tailored to the company, by providing useful information, determining 5 concrete prevention priorities, and proposing specific prevention measures tailored to the company to enable the employer to address the 5 prevention priorities as efficiently as possible.
The policy advice can thus also contribute to a strong cooperation between the employer (and their internal prevention service) and the external prevention service. This cooperation is fundamental: regardless of their size, all employers are equally responsible for the well-being of their employees during the execution of work, but smaller employers simply less often have sufficient resources to have the necessary knowledge in-house, while they too can be confronted with significant risks to the well-being of employees. Precisely for these smaller employers where no trained prevention adviser is present in their own company, the expertise and knowledge of the external prevention services can mean enormous added value.