However, he also said that, in the matter of risk to safety and health, the Commission will be tough, and will create the necessary rules and regulations for safety at work. This is the first message I want to pass to you from the new Commission. The second is from Madame Diamontopoulou. In her answers to the written questions posed by the European Parliament, she made clear that she sees health and safety at work to be an important part of her responsibilities. She made clear that she intends to ensure that this subject continues to be at the centre of the European social policy agenda.
Good safety is good business.
Let me turn to the agenda of this meeting, the relationships and interactions between risk in the workplace and risk in personal life. One thing that is common to both spheres is their high incidence of death and injury. Another is that prevention, as ever, is the key to changing this situation. The third is that action, to be effective, must be appropriate, whether in terms of responsibility, of legislation, of exhortation or of information. And a fourth is this.