A prevention officer works to prevent health and safety risks in the workplace. The duties of the prevention officer are laid down by law in the Working Conditions Act. Besides these statutory duties, a prevention officer often performs other health and safety-related tasks. What exactly these tasks entail varies from company to company. The tasks that the prevention officer is legally required to perform are: drawing up the Risk Inventory & Evaluation (possibly with external advice), (co-)implementing the action plan arising from the RI&E, cooperating with the Occupational Health & Safety Service. The prevention officer has both an executive and an advisory role.