The Committee shall have the task of assisting the Commission in the preparation and implementation of activities in the fields of safety, hygiene and health protection at work. This task shall cover all sectors of the economy except the mineral extracting industries falling within the responsibility of the Mines Safety and Health Commission and except the protection of the health of workers against the dangers arising from ionizing radiations which is subject to special regulations pursuant to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community. The Committee shall have the task in particular, of undertaking the following activities: (a) conducting, on the basis of information available to it, exchanges of views and experience regarding existing or planned regulations; (b) contributing towards the development of a common approach to problems existing in the fields of safety, hygiene and health protection at work and towards the choice of Community priorities as well as measures necessary for implementing them; (c) drawing the Commission's attention to areas in which there is an apparent need for the acquisition of new knowledge and for the implementation of appropriate educational and research projects; (d) defining, within the framework of Community action programmes, and in cooperation with the Mines Safety and Health Commission: - the criteria and aims of the campaign against the risk of accidents at work and health hazards within the undertaking; - methods enabling undertakings and their employees to evaluate and to improve the level of protection; (e) contributing towards keeping national administrations, trades unions and employers' organizations informed of Community measures in order to facilitate their cooperation and to encourage initiatives promoted by them aiming at exchanges of experience and at laying down codes of practice.
