SPAIN

Alameda de Mazarredo 61, 5th Floor,
Bilbao 48009, Spain

Tel: 00 34 44 2305 01
Fax: 00 34 44 2376 55

Director: H Horst Konkolewsky

Principal functions and activities: The Council of the European Union announced in August 1994, the establishment of a European Agency for Health and Safety at Work. The Agency's aim is to provide Community bodies, Member States and those involved in the field with the technical and economic information they need in order to encourage improvements in the working environment as regards the safety and health of workers. In order to achieve this aim, the Agency is involved in a number of activities including: collect and disseminate information in Member States in order to pass it on to Community bodies, Member States and other interested parties; collect information on research into health and safety at work; organise conferences and seminars; supply Community bodies and Member States with the information it requires to formulate and implement judicious and effective policies; establish and coordinate an information network in cooperation with the Member States.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK
(INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SEGURIDAD E HIGIENE EN EL TRABAJO) (INSHT)

c/Torrelaguna, 73,
28027 Madrid, Spain.

Tel: 00 34 1 403 7000
Fax: 00 34 1 403 0050

Director: J Gomez-Hortiguela Amillo Technical Assistant Director: F Alonso Arenal

Status: Autonomous agency subordinate to central administration whose main task is to survey the safety and health conditions at workplaces.

Principal functions and activities: To survey the safety and health conditions of workers at their workplaces; to develop research about health and work conditions; to promote and divulge a range of subjects related to the safety and health of workers at their workplaces; to train workers and managers on the subjects related to the safety and health at work; to train experts on prevention issues; to prepare technical reviews and reports; to promote personal protection equipment; to test the safety and health conditions regarding machinery; to examine the work conditions; to manage the safety liaison between Spanish Government and the EC. To publish and sell all of the books, papers and films elaborated by this Institute.

Major publications: Salud y Trabajo (bimonthly journal), Erga Noticias (bimonthly journal), Erga Bibliografico.