This review considers the OSH issues in the wind energy sector, both onshore and offshore, within the EU Member States. The activities associated with wind energy — from the design and manufacturing of wind turbine parts, through the transport, installation and maintenance, to emergency rescue a...
The various tasks were meant to provide an overview of what is known on this topic and how the issues identified are addressed in policy and practice. Together, these tasks were expected to enable an assessment of the discrepancies and similarities between policies and practice in companies, to ...
Self-employment is identified as an important occupational safety and health (OSH) challenge in the Community strategy 2007-2012 on health and safety at work. This challenge was already recognised in the first Community strategy and was addressed through Council Recommendation 2003/134/EC concer...
The review was carried out by a multi-disciplinary team, drawn from four EU countries (Denmark, France, Poland and the United Kingdom), with expertise in risk communication as well as in risk science and nanomaterials toxicity, and is divided into seven chapters, providing an introduction to the...
This report sets out to describe the potential occupational safety and health (OSH) risks that have been identified in relation to online platform work, to highlight the challenges for current regulatory approaches on OSH and to present examples of different approaches that are under way or bein...
Occupational factors play a significant role in the global burden of disease. In addition, rapid changes in working conditions may give rise to new occupational health risks and work-related diseases (WRDs). Monitoring these new WRDs is essential from the perspective of early recognition and pre...
This report provides the final analysis from SESAME, a three-year (2014-2017), theoretically informed, policy-orientated and EU-comparative empirical research project on occupational safety and health (OSH) in micro and small enterprises (MSEs). A team of experienced researchers examined arrange...
Freight containers are widely used all over the world to transport goods. These freight containers are frequently fumigated with pesticides before shipping. Pest control is implemented to protect the cargo from being damaged by pests during the long transport time, and thereby to prevent the spr...