This invitation to tender is intended to attract bids with a view to collecting the information in order to prepare and produce a draft non-binding modular guide to good practice as referred to in Section 1 of the specifications. This guide should set out and provide practical guidance for better application of the directives on the health and safety of workers who use or come into contact with a vehicle as part of their professional duties.

The guide must cover the methods used for identifying and evaluating risks, and offer assistance with the choice and correct use of work equipment and the optimisation and implementation of preventive measures (technical and/or organisational) on the basis of a prior risk analysis. It must also include information on the types of training and information to be provided to the workers concerned and propose effective solutions to all safety and health problems relating to workers who use or come into contact with a vehicle as part of their professional duties.

The modular guide must be based on didactic principles so as to facilitate its use by non-specialists; it should use simple language, video clips, pictograms, pictures, diagrams, etc. to facilitate their understanding. All issues related to copyright of such images are the responsibility of the tenderer (see details in the model contract).

An indication of the type of information and level of detail required can be found in the existing examples of non-binding guides on different subjects.

A number of these examples of existing guides may be found on the web page hereunder.

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=82&langId=en&furtherPubs=yes

The draft guide must inter alia pay special attention to:

— the specific features of vehicle use belonging to small and very small companies (family or artisanal firms); this can lead to constraints in the investment in new equipment, or formal training courses or the time devoted to health and safety issues,

— risks resulting from working with different types of vehicles,

— risks resulting from the simultaneous presence of workers from different cultures and migrant workers, and the possible communication problems arising,

— risks related to consumption of alcohol, medicines, drugs as well as fatigue,

— the draft modular guide must also facilitate the adoption of measures to eliminate or reduce WRVR, and must include examples to assist this task. In particular, it should be easy to apply.

The draft guide must have a modular structure so that it can be generally applied to all types and sizes of vehicle. It must facilitate the risk assessment referred to in the various directives.