In order to better protect the more than 217 million workers in the European Union (EU) from work-related accidents and diseases, in 2014 the European Commission adopted the Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020, which identifies key challenges and strategic objectives for h...
Continuous changes in work and working conditions result in the rise of new occupational health (OH) risks and possibly new work-related diseases (WRDs). Monitoring these new health risks and WRDs is essential in order to better understand their work-relatedness and to ensure timely intervention...
The main objective of this report is to explore and gain an overview of current and emerging OSH risks and issues in the healthcare sector, including home and community care, in the EU. The report focuses on the question: What are the current and emerging OSH risks and issues for healthcare prof...
The costs of work-related injuries and illness can be substantial. In the EU-27 in 2007, 5,580 accidents at the workplace resulted in death and 2.9 % of the workforce had an accident at work that resulted in more than three days of absence. Additionally, approximately 23 million people had a hea...
The need to improve working life in the European Union (EU) is still urgent today. In 2016, approximately 2.4 million non-fatal accidents requiring at least 4 days of absence from work and 3,182 fatal accidents were reported in EU Member States. In addition to these accident rates, figures from ...
The present publication aims to provide the European Risk Observatory target audience – researchers and policy-makers – with a comprehensive picture of our knowledge concerning the hazards of the combined workplace exposure to noise and chemical substances that may affect workers’ hearing. This ...
The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) in partnership with Kooperationsstelle Hamburg has been commissioned by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) to conduct a qualitative post-test of the European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER). The aim of t...
The following research questions are addressed in this study: 1. Is the level of psychosocial risk management related to drivers and barriers at the organisational level? 2. What is the link between national culture and psychosocial risk management? 3. Is cultural context related to drivers of a...
This report presents the findings of a qualitative study of understandings and experiences of occupational safety and health (OSH) in 162 cases of micro and small firms selected from a range of economic sectors in nine EU Member States. Its aim was to present a ‘view from the workplace’ by explo...