- Supporting awareness–raising/training activities targeting labour inspectors, in order to improve knowledge/skills and administrative capacity in dealing with issues relating to health and safety at work.

17. Calls on the Member States to take account of the gender dimension in procedures for assessing health and safety at work risks; calls, in this connection, for support for gender mainstreaming training, for knowledge and activities for safety representatives, labour inspectors and workplace doctors, especially with regard to gender-related violence in order to identify and provide help for victims of domestic violence, bullying or sexual harassment, and for the exchange of best practices, in order to foster better working conditio ...[+++]ns; stresses the importance of involving female and male workers in decision-making, monitoring and review processes;

22. Points out that it is common that the working conditions of employees on fixed-term contracts are less adequate than those of permanent employees; notes that, in order for contract work to be subject to proper inspection, the rights of inspectors to inspect companies that provide contract labour must be extended, and inspections must cover the observance of rules on rates of pay and working conditions, as well as the application of minimum wages where required by Member State law or national collective agreements; insists that the prevention of workplace health and safety problems be accorded the same degree of attention in the pri ...[+++]vate and public sectors; points out that observance of the principle of non-discrimination is compulsory; states that it must be made possible for workers on temporary contracts to find out about their rights, including as regards pay rates, via an on-line service or website;

24. Considers that the new Community strategy for occupational health and safety at work 2013 - 2020 must break with the approach of the preceding strategy (2007 - 2012), which viewed occupational health primarily as a variable of the productivity and competitiveness of businesses; points out that the new strategy should focus on using the potentials of REACH for improving workers’ protection from chemical hazards, a renewed effort for preventing work-related illnesses and improving workers’ quality of life at work, strengthening the monitoring and enforcement responsibilities of labour inspectorates and workers' participation in design ...[+++]ing, monitoring and implementing prevention policies, improving the recognition of occupational diseases and addressing flexibility, insecurity, sub-contracting etc. as obstacles to proper risk prevention;

32. Calls for more detailed proposals regarding urgent technical, financial and other assistance to the candidate countries in the transposition and, critically, the implementation of the acquis in the occupational health and safety field (where the lag could hardly be underestimated) in both general and specific terms and as a matter of priority in those sectors and industries where the need for improvement is greatest, in particular, the training of specialists and labour inspectors, and the further development of the role of the social partners and other prerequisites of t ...[+++]he EU approach;

32. Calls for more detailed proposals regarding urgent technical, financial and other assistance to the candidate countries in the transposition and, critically, the implementation of the acquis in the occupational health and safety field (where the lag could hardly be underestimated) in both general and specific terms and as a matter of priority in those sectors and industries where the need for improvement is greatest - in particular, the training of specialists and labour inspectors, and the further development of the role of the social partners and other pre-requisites of ...[+++] the EU approach;