Article 2
1. The Committee shall have the task of assisting the Commission in the preparation, implementation and evaluation of activities in the fields of safety and health at work. This task shall cover the public and the private sectors of the economy. 2. Specifically, the Committee shall: (a) conduct, on the basis of the information available to it, exchanges of views and experience regarding existing or planned regulations; (b) help to devise a common approach to problems in the fields of safety and health at work and identify Community priorities as well as the measures necessary for implementing them; (c) draw the Commission's attention to areas in which there is an apparent need for new knowledge and for suitable training and research measures; (d) define, within the framework of Community action programmes: - the criteria and aims for preventing 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) contribute, alongside the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, to keeping national administrations, trades unions and employers' organisations informed of Community measures in order to facilitate cooperation and to encourage any initiatives on their part to exchange experience and establish codes of practice; (f) give an opinion on plans for Community initiatives which affect safety and health at work; (g) give an opinion on the annual programme and the rotating four-year programme of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. 3. In order to accomplish the above tasks, the Committee shall cooperate with the other Committees which are competent for safety and health at work, inter alia with the Senior Labour Inspectors Committee and the Scientific Committee for Occupational Exposure Limits to Chemical Agents, mainly by exchanging information.