text: The**trend is clearly towards a higher awareness and towards a wider coverage of a broader**
  **spectrum of risks**. Support towards preventive measures is not only achieved by legislation but also 
  by stakeholder support of multiple kinds, be it**interactive support tools, classical guidance**
  **documents, management systems**or**European product standards**. They all help to better cope 
  with the complexity of risks and the selection of adequate preventive measures. 
  
  However, the current data situation is still too diverse and the implementation of OSH legislation and 
  guidance too different to assign a**harmonised statement — or a kind of composite indicator — for**
  **effective implementation of legislation or standards**, be it for Member States or for sectors or types 
  of workplaces in the EU27. The quantity of risk assessments and preventive measures can be roughly 
  estimated, based on ESENER and national surveys, but the quality of these risk assessments and the 
  subsequent preventive risk reduction measures can only be assessed on a granular case-by-case level. 
  
  This difficulty to assess a**kind of general prevention level**of a Member State, a sector or an 
  occupation is the reason why ‘outcomes’ have such a relevance as quantitative indicators. These 
  indicators allow — although mostly being lagging indicators — an assessment on a highly aggregated 
  level, like EU Member States, sectors or types of occupations. 