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National Forum of France

Official Name:
Agence Nationale pour l'Amélioration des Conditions de Travail - ANACT- is the actual supportive institution for the initiative.  
 
Internet:
www.anact.fr

Founded:
ANACT was founded in1973. The first event contributing to the idea of a Forum took place the first week of May 2004, with the National Week for the Quality of Working Life, at national and regional levels.
 
Objectives:
ANACT helps businesses improve the performance of their organisation and the working conditions of their staff. ANACT produces and disseminate innovative methods for participative change, assists in the design and implementation of public policies in its field of competence. The Regional Associations members of ANACT Network (ARACTs) pass on these missions in the different regions, with particular focus on SMEs. Health and Work is a Department and a main line of development of ANACT.
 
Structure:
The potential structure of a French forum could integrate numerous institutions and actors:
national institutions and Ministerial Directions either Work and Social Affairs or Public Health sectors, their regional Directions, scientific institutes on the matter, OSH included, occupational physicians associations, prevention public institutions of sectors, and professionals preventors, national and regional employers and labors associations, relevant private associations and institutes,
companies with a focus on new paritarian regional association, where employers and labor associations are co-operating about promotion and prevention of health at work. These new association, named ORST, are in 2004 designing their first programmes. ARACTs are their partners as others in the perimeter of they specific missions.The structure of a french WHP Forum have in fact to be elaborated in the future in co-operation and from experimentations between socio-economical partners, in the respect of regional contexts.
 
Working Methods:
Networking - Experimentation from concrete projects - Benchmarking - Sensibilisation - Training of regional and local professional specific networks.
 
Priorities:
To be identified, experimented, and designed by socio-economical and professional partners, probably by the way of pluridisciplinarity to be implemented about health at work actual stakes.
 
Adress/Contact:

ANACT
Agence Nationale d' Amélioration des conditions de travail
Ségoléne Journoud
4 quai des Etroits
69321 Lyon Cedex 05
France

Phone: +33 472 56 13 13
Fax: +33 478 37 96 90
s.journoud@anact.fr
http://www.anact.fr