A connected Digital Single Market is one of the European Commission’s key priorities (EC, 2015). Digitalisation, including ICT-enabled technologies (ICT-ETs) such as robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), are likely to have major impacts on the nature and location of work over the next 10 ye...
Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) account for nearly 99% of enterprises in the European Union (EU) and employ nearly 50% of EU workers. Given these numbers, and the significant role such enterprises play in society as well as in the EU economy, the importance of effective means to prevent harm ...
The project ‘Rehabilitation and return to work after cancer — instruments and practices’ is intended to provide new insights into the problems encountered by workers affected by cancer and their employers. Furthermore, it will make recommendations regarding successful instruments, interventions,...
This document forms the summary of a comprehensive report that was commissioned by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) on reproductive and developmental health effects and workplace exposure in order to establish an evidence base for future activities in this area, includ...
Psychosocial risks represent one of the key priorities in health and safety in the modern workplace in Europe, and a number of actions have been taken in the EU policy arena to promote the management of psychosocial risks at national as well as organisational levels. Preliminary findings from th...
Occupational cancer is a problem that needs to be tackled across the European Union (EU). Estimates of the recent and future burden of occupational diseases indicate that occupational cancer is still a problem and will remain so in the future as a result of exposure of workers to carcinogens. Th...