There will be stricter audits of aggravated risk enterprises that did not pay their mandatory prevention contribution. This extra audit is part of a series of measures determined by the FPS in 2009 to significantly reduce the number of workplace accidents. Increasing employers’ financial responsibility is one of them.
 

Aggravated risk organisations are employers that have significantly more workplace accidents than the rest of their sector, and are assumed to be deficient in prevention measures. They must pay a flat-rate ‘prevention contribution’ to their insurance company. One in four organisations appears not to have paid the insurance premium by 2023, partly due to a lack of penalties for non-payment. That will now change.

The collections of the prevention contribution have been done (for certain sectors) by Fedris, the Federal Agency for Occupational Risks, since 2023. While waiting for Fedris and FPS Finance to collect from all companies, FPS WASO is already carrying out inspections of non-payers.

FPS WASO will also select 20 companies with the highest risk index from a Fedris list of aggravated risk companies that did not pay their contributions. Those companies are subject to two audits per year: one by the Directorate General Control on well-being at work and one by the Directorate General Control on Social Legislation. These stricter audits are included in a five-year plan and monitored.

Read more about aggravated risk of occupational accidents here.