Health and Safety at work represents today one of the most important advanced fields of the social policy of the European Union.
Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, in favour of information, guidance and promotion of a healthy working environment by paying particular attention to small and medium-size enterprises.
The improvement of health and safety of the workers already started from 1952 under the European Coal and Steel Community. Since then a solid corpus of legislation has been adopted covering the maximum number of risks with the minimum number of regulations.
