It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to today's press conference, organized to highlight the work produced through the cooperation between the Labour Inspection Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance and the CERIDES Centre of Excellence of the European University Cyprus.
This cooperation already counts ten years of joint and systematic effort for the development and exploitation of research knowledge and is part of Pillar 8 of the Cyprus Strategy for Safety and Health at Work, which concerns the encouragement of progress and research.
As the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, we focus our actions on the protection of human life and the health of workers, attaching particular importance to the reduction of occupational accidents, occupational diseases and dangerous incidents in the workplace.
The cooperation between the Labour Inspection Department and the CERIDES Centre of Excellence aims to create conditions for a healthy and safe working environment, while improving the quality of the work produced. Through this cooperation, we seek to develop and utilize research knowledge and innovation for the formulation of policies to ensure the health, safety and well-being of workers, the quality of human life and the sustainability of enterprises.
Sensing the need to further promote innovation and research in our country, the Ministry will continue and strengthen our cooperation with the European University, aiming to utilize the work produced in order to strengthen This research is being conducted for the first time in Cyprus. Looking back at the literature, it is one of the few studies of this kind that have been carried out worldwide, expanding our knowledge and providing important resources to strengthen our policy and actions in the field of occupational safety and health.
In addition, it is important to mention that the cooperation contributes decisively to the education and training of the staff of the Department of Labour Inspection in relation to new developments in the field, assisting the effective exercise of their duties, both through This Programme, for several years now, has been offering high quality knowledge and skills, enabling its graduates to meet the growing demand from private and public bodies for the management of safety and health in the workplace.
Dear colleagues, friends of the CERIDES Centre of Excellence,
I hope that together we will continue to play, through our collaboration, a key role in the effort to develop and implement appropriate preventive and protective measures for the protection and well-being of workers and the sustainable development of enterprises. I am confident that, as a Centre of Excellence and as a University, you will continue to join us in the joint effort to improve health and safety levels in the workplace so that we can achieve our goals more quickly.
Thank you very much for your long, uninterrupted and constructive cooperation.
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