Prevention of OSTFA (occupational slips trips and falls accidents): the activities and perspectives of the INRS

The prevention of occupational accidents (OA) is one of the missions of the INRS (French National Research and Safety Institute). The importance of the challenge of preventing OSTFA is first emphasised by the statistical data of OAs occurring in French companies. The INRS targets different groups of OSTFA in its activities in view to taking into account both the real diversity of OSTFA and the need to set up priority and/or specific prevention actions in certain cases of accident. The specific characteristics of each group of OSTFA are presented first, followed by a description of the INRS’s different activities and medium term perspectives dedicated to preventing them.