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20/11/24

ITALY: Worklimate 2.0 project on thermal hazards in the workplace wins award

Launched in May 2023 for a period of 2 years, the Worklimate 2.0 project aims to deepen knowledge of the effects of environmental heat stress (particularly heat) on worker health and safety, company productivity and the social costs associated with ensuing workplace accidents.

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18/11/24

SPAIN: ‘A day like any other’, the new motto of the prevention campaign

Every day in Spain, 2 people die at work and 35 are hospitalized as a result of an accident at work. Faced with these alarming figures, the Spanish government launched an occupational risk prevention campaign in November 2024 called “Un Dia Cualquiera” (A day like any other).

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12/11/24

Is climate change making work in Europe more dangerous?

Climate change has become part of everyday life in Europe. In the 25th episode of Eurofound Talks, a series of podcasts on key issues affecting life and work in Europe, researchers discuss its impact on working conditions and the labour market, the role of the green transition and how policies can protect workers and their jobs.

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12/11/24

OHS in figures in the health and social services sector

This new report from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) aims to provide a statistical and factual overview of occupational safety and health (OSH) in an important sector facing many challenges: health and social care.

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12/11/24

“Directives needed to make work safe for digital age”

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is calling on the European Union to act quickly to achieve the ‘laudable’ objective of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU OSHA) to promote ‘safe and healthy work in the digital age’ on the occasion of European Week for Safety and Health at Work.

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12/11/24

Platform work: a new EUROGIP Focus to help you understand the new directive

Following the publication of the new European Directive aimed at improving working conditions on digital platforms, EUROGIP is publishing a detailed Focus to shed light on the key points of this text, which is the result of intense negotiations since the European Commission's initial proposal in December 2021.

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30/10/24

BELGIUM: Constructiv offers more and more publications in foreign languages

With some 40,000 posted workers working on Belgian sites every day, Constructiv is continuing its efforts to make as many prevention tools as possible available in several languages.

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25/10/24

Take part in European Week 2024 for Health and Safety at Work

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has just kicked off the European Week for Safety and Health at Work, the theme of the 2024 edition of which is ‘Safe and healthy work in the digital age’.

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25/10/24

GERMANY: a new database to prevent occupational cancers

The Institute for Occupational Safety of the German Statutory Accident Insurance (IFA) has launched a new free database dedicated to best practice in preventing work-related cancers, which were the cause of around 1,500 deaths in 2023.

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Standardization

25/10/24

November 2024: What’s new in OSH standardisation?

EUROGIP monitors newly published texts or work in progress at European (CEN) or international (ISO) level in the field of occupational health and safety (OHS) standardisation.

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