The staff of the body are bound by professional secrecy with regard to everything they learn in the performance of their duties (with the exception of the competent administrative authorities and accident investigation bodies in the State where they perform those activities as well as accident investigation bodies responsible for the investigation of accidents caused by the failure of the interoperability constituents or subsystems checked) in pursuance of this Directive or any provision of national law implementing the Directive.

58. Recalls that a good work environment is an important productivity factor; calls on the Member States to promote actions in the workplace that reduce the risk of harm to ageing workers, these include interventions to improve the psychosocial and physical work environment, changes to work content and organisation, improving the general health, well-being, and work ability of workers, and increasing the abilities and professional competence of workers; calls on enterprises to invest in the prevention of accidents at work, occupation ...[+++]al health, hygiene and social dialogue;

2. A person who has sustained an accident at work or has contracted an occupational disease and who resides or stays in a Member State other than the competent Member State shall be entitled to the special benefits in kind of the scheme covering accidents at work and occupational diseases provided, on behalf of the competent institution, by the institution of the place of residence or stay in accordance with the legislation which it applies, as though he/she were insured under the said legislation.

2. If there is no insurance against accidents at work or occupational diseases in the competent Member State, the provisions of this Chapter concerning benefits in kind shall nevertheless be applied to a person who is entitled to those benefits in the event of sickness, maternity or equivalent paternity under the legislation of that Member State if that person sustains an accident at work or suffers from an occupational disease during a residence or stay in another Member State.

Taking up the challenge, the Council, in its resolution on a new Community strategy on health and safety at work (2002-2006), calls on the Member States to 'develop and implement co-ordinated, coherent prevention policies, geared to national conditions, with measurable targets set in this context for reducing accidents at work and occupational illnesses, especially in those sectors of activity in which rates are above average' and to 'ensure better implementation of the legislation in force, in particular through more effective inspection and monitoring, through making available to businesses, especially small and medium-sized businesses ...[+++], suitable advisory and consultancy services, as well as through improved occupational risk-prevention training and the adoption of measures aimed specifically at reducing accidents at work and occupational illnesses in high-risk sectors'.

17. Calls on the Commission to speed up the process of harmonising statistical data and concepts relating to occupational accidents with a view to establishing uniform criteria which will make it possible to identify the causes of fishing accidents and developments in that field, and therefore calls for a regulation designed to ensure that the Member States apply the various stages of the European statistics on fishing accidents and European statistics on occupational diseases;