Mission

The Directorate of Internal Prevention and Protection at Work is in charge of advising and assisting both the authority and the staff members in implementing the well-being at work and corporate security policy.

 

Scope of activities

Security at work

The work of the directorate in this field consists in implementing and following up a dynamic risk management system (which has been given body in a global prevention plan), by managing the data collected with regard to accidents and security incidents and by providing advice in the various fields relating to "well-being at work".

Health and hygiene

Medical checks for staff members are conducted by the Occupational Medicine Service. Its main task is to promote and preserve the staff members’ health through prevention, and more particularly by carrying out a greater number of preventive medical examinations. The service also works in consultation with the competent external services of the police zones. Furthermore, the directorate (or external bodies) tries to make an objective assessment of environmental factors and to propose objective solutions that can be applied to specific hard and/or perturbing work situations.

The psychosocial pressure (individual support, stress, violence, psychological and sexual harassment at work)

The Psychosocial Department of the Directorate of Internal Prevention and Protection at Work is made up of two very different but highly complementary sections. These are, on the one hand, the Stress Team and, on the other, the Psychosocial Prevention Section. The Stress Team is made up of a team of social workers and psychologists who provide the integrated police members with “emotional orientation” and support them in their work. The Stress Team enhances the psychosocial well-being of the personnel through personal interviews (support), crisis interventions, training (awareness-raising) and support during emotionally painful missions.

The Psychosocial Prevention Section is made up of prevention consultants specialised in the psychosocial aspects of work, “persons of trust” and a coordinator of the persons of trust network. This section deals with stress, relational distress resulting from interpersonal or group conflicts, violence as well as psychological or sexual harassment at work as defined by the well-being legislation. Unlike the Stress Team, this section exclusively works for the Federal Police.

Corporate security

It seeks to fulfil four mainly goals: making legitimation and identification cards, developing an information security policy, verifications and security clearances, ‘technical prevention’, including access control.

Environmental management

This matter is in the hands of the “environmental coordinators”. Their task consists in regularizing environmental permits and in following up the obligations resulting from them. Furthermore, environmental managers raise awareness among infrastructure managers about environmental problems, offer them support and provide them occasionally with advice.