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Prevention services, occupational medicine, work incapacity, etc. The social partners in the High Council for Prevention and Protection at Work have announced their priorities for 2024-2029 in terms of well-being at work. The Council is set up within the Federal Public Service for Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue.
Its areas of work include, in particular, the following three points:
- Optimising external prevention and protection at work services so that they are better adapted to the needs of companies, especially SMEs. A multidisciplinary approach is recommended for an integrated well-being policy. Several initiatives are proposed to improve their operation, including better monitoring of the quality of services and better communication between external services, the administration and companies.
- Improving occupational medicine to make it more effective and attractive, in response to the decline in the number of occupational health practitioners and the increase in health problems such as musculoskeletal and psychosocial disorders. The social partners are in favour of a reform to modernise the profession and strengthen the human resources available.
- Reducing incapacity to work: keeping workers in employment in jobs suited to their state of health and facilitating their reintegration in the event of incapacity to work; the role of occupational health practitioners is central.
These priorities emphasise a proactive approach, the need for structural reforms and better cooperation between stakeholders to improve well-being at work.
