Legislation “risk weighted”
“The principle of” risk weighted “aims to reduce the number of accidents by additional contributions to ask companies not to loose with prevention. In this KB, which took effect January 1, 2009, companies will exhibit a disproportionate risk weighted one lump sum to pay to their insurer. This amount will be used as support for accident prevention with the employer in question. The insurer proposed a plan to the employer to prevent concrete preventive similar accident happen again, “says Tom De Troch.
The KB is applicable to companies which during the observation period at least five recorded accidents were fatal or temporary incapacity of at least 1 days, the days of the accident is not counted. A risk is insured in such cases as aggravated risk status if the risk index on an annual basis in the last calendar year and in another calendar year of the observation period at least ten times the risk index is the business sector which the company belongs.
“The contribution is determined using the size of the company. It is 3.000 euro for businesses with fewer than 50 full-time equivalents. It is increased by 2000 euros per additional disc of 50 full-time equivalents, but is limited to 15,000 euros. The principle of “risk weighted” part of the strategy for the safety and quality of life in the workplace of the European Union to reduce. The EU provides for between 2009 and 2012 the overall impact of reducing accidents by 25 percent, “concludes Tom De Troch.
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