The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) contributes to making Europe a safer, healthier and more productive place to work. Set up by the European Union in 1994 and based in Bilbao, Spain, the Agency researches, develops and distributes reliable, balanced and impartial safety ...
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is running a Europe-wide campaign from 2018 to 2019 to promote the prevention of risks from dangerous substances in workplaces. The aim is to reduce the presence of and exposure to dangerous substances in workplaces by raising awareness...
In 2019, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) celebrates 25 years of working with its extensive network of partners to make Europe a safer and healthier place to work. Founded in 1994, EU-OSHA made its home in Bilbao in 1997. The Agency researches, develops and distributes...
Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) have difficulties managing occupational safety and health (OSH) and hence may experience poor OSH conditions and often lack systematic OSH management. The complex causes for this and the outcome in terms of work-related injuries and poor working environments ar...
This review is part of a project of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), initiated by the European Parliament, on the safety and health of older workers. The objective of the review is to provide an up-to-date summary of knowledge regarding vocational rehabilitation and r...
The Maternity Leave Directive (92/85/EEC) is concerned with improvements in the safety and health at work of women who are pregnant, have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding. This report finds that nearly all Member States comply with the directive’s provision of granting at least two ...
The Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards were organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) as part of the 2014–15 Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress campaign. The 2014–15 awards aimed to highlight leading examples of companies or organisations actively managing stres...
This report aims to update the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work working paper ‘Priorities for occupational safety and health research in the EU-25’ (EU-OSHA, 2005), first published in 2005, taking into account the latest developments in scientific knowledge in the field, changes in ...
The aim of this project was to provide insight into how the environment in which an establishment operates affects the way it manages workplace occupational safety and health (OSH). The work forms part of the follow-up to the European Agency for Health at Work (EU-OSHA) European Survey of Enterp...
