Title
Health and safety risks at the workplace: a joint analysis of three major surveys
Author
Irastorza, X.
Houtman, I.L.D.
Eekhout, I.
Venema, A.
Bakhuys Roozeboom, M.M.C.
van Buuren, S.
Publication year
2017
Abstract
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 (1), which identifies key challenges and strategic objectives for health and safety at work. The Strategic Framework aims to ensure that the EU continues to play a leading role in the promotion of high standards for working conditions, to improve implementation of existing safety and health rules, in particular by enhancing the capacity of micro- and small enterprises to implement effective and efficient risk prevention strategies and to improve the prevention of work-related diseases by tackling new and emerging risks, without neglecting existing risks. This Framework proposes to address these challenges with a range of actions, including the improvement of statistical data collection to generate better evidence and to make more appropriate use of the data, as well as further improvements in monitoring tools.
Subject
Occupational safety
Workplace
Health
Safety
Risks
Healthy for Life
Healthy Living
Life
WHC - Work, Health and Care
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.2802/835406
TNO identifier
807956
Publisher
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Bilbao
ISBN
9789292409999
Document type
report