Meeting of the Senior Labour Inspectorate Committee (SLIC)

The principal activities of SLIC are to:

• Define common principles of labour inspection in the field of health and safety at work and developing methods of assessing the national systems of inspection in relation to those principles.

• Promote improved knowledge and mutual understanding of the different national systems and practices of labour inspection, the methods and legal frameworks for action.

• Develop exchanges of information between national labour inspection services about their experiences in monitoring the enforcement of secondary Community law on health and safety at work.

• Promote a labour inspector exchange programme between national administrations and the setting up of inspector training programmes.

• Develop a reliable and efficient system of rapid information exchange between labour inspectorates about health and safety issues.

• Establish active cooperation with labour inspectorates in third countries to promote better understanding and to assist in resolving any cross-border problems.

• Study the possible impact of other Community policies on labour inspection activities relating to health and safety at work and working conditions.