This report describes the project ‘Foresight of new and emerging risks to occupational safety and health associated with new technologies in green jobs by 2020’, carried out for the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). The outcome of the exercise is a set of scenarios coverin...
The issue of occupational safety and health (OSH) for women who work in the European Union (EU) is central to an understanding of the working environment. Previous research has shown that women’s OSH has to be improved. Research from the European Commission illustrates that, even by 1995, women ...
This report presents a review of the experience of occupational safety and health (OSH) arrangements and outcomes in micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in the European Union (EU) and the factors that determine them, along with a critical analysis of the range of strategies and resources availabl...
The aim of this study was to undertake a more detailed analysis of the data from the Second European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-2) concerning the management of health and safety in European Union (EU) workplaces....
EU-OSHA's second Europe-wide establishment survey aims to assist workplaces to deal more effectively with health and safety and to promote the health and well-being of employees. It provides cross-nationally comparable information relevant for the design and implementation of new policies in thi...
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)’s second European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-2) asks those ‘who know best’ about safety and health in establishments about the way safety and health risks are managed at their workplace, with a particular fo...
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 report presents a qualitative study of worker representation on occupational safety and health (OSH) in the European Union (EU) and is a follow-up to the second European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-2). It considers current practices within the EU and what these s...
Emergency workers comprise large professional groups ranging from career and volunteer fire-fighters, police officers, emergency medical staff (paramedics, emergency medical technicians, doctors and nurses) to psychologists. In major disasters, rescue workers, technicians from large relief organ...