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2025
EUROGIP presents its 2024 activity report.
This document invites you to (re)discover the missions of this French occupational injury insurance organization, which specializes in all aspects of European and international issues relating to accidents at work and occupational diseases.
2024|Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
EUROGIP publishes the English version of the updated estimates (2019-2021) of a new analysis of the phenomenon of under-reporting of accidents at work (AWCs) resulting in more than three days’ absence from work in Europe, which confirms that reporting levels vary widely from country to country (from less than 10% to almost 100%).
The wide disparities in incidence rates (number of accidents per 100,000 workers) raise the question of under-reporting. For example, in 2019, non-fatal accidents ranged from 62 to 3,425.
For this analysis, EUROGIP compared the European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW) and the data from the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) published by Eurostat, the Commission’s Directorate-General for Statistics. It used the two methods it had developed in its 2017 study:
These empirical studies must be interpreted with caution, as they depend on the accuracy of the data collected and the statistical methods used. Their main purpose is to put the information on accidents at work into perspective.
2024
EUROGIP is publishing its 2023 Activity Report. This is an opportunity to (re)discover this French occupational risk insurance organisation dedicated to European, and even international, issues relating to accidents at work and occupational illnesses in their various components: prevention, insurance, statistics.
The document highlights the work and achievements in these areas and aims to:
2023|Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden
Drawing on its expertise in occupational injuries insurance systems, this EUROGIP’s report examines how an employee who suffers an accident at work while teleworking should be treated.
The question takes on its full importance in a context where this organization of remote work has certainly developed in a period of health crisis linked to Covid-19, but has now taken root on a long-term basis.
What coverage is available to employees? What are the prerogatives of the employer, who remains responsible for employee health and safety? What legislation has developed and applies today? What is the case law?
These are just some of the questions examined in this report, which covers seven European countries: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.
The well-documented analysis focuses primarily on telecommuting, and not on other possible forms of remote working. In addition, it focuses on salaried employment with reference to the general occupational injury insurance scheme that covers it in the seven countries studied.
2023|Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Gulf States, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, New-Zeland, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United-Kingdom, United-States
The new EUROGIP report looks at legislation and preventive action taken in the event of hot work or heatwaves in a number of countries:
The increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves linked to global warming can have serious, even fatal, health consequences for workers. Protecting their health and safety is therefore a major challenge.
EUROGIP offers an overview of the various measures (legislation, collective agreements, tools, campaigns, etc.) adopted in the countries studied to meet this challenge. The first question asked is whether there is a maximum working temperature.
This report focuses in particular on jobs carried out outdoors and therefore particularly affected by heat waves.
The original version is in French and the Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association, JISHA, translated the summary into Japanese.
2023|Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden
EUROGIP has published the results of a new study on the recognition of work-related mental disorders as accidents at work and/or occupational diseases in 7 European countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.
It turns out that, under certain conditions, a mental illness resulting from a specific, sudden and unforeseeable event can theoretically be recognised as an accident at work in many European countries.
But an increasing number of workers are now claiming to be suffering from non-traumatic disorders (depression, burnout, etc.), caused by the organisation and working conditions, violence or management style they encounter in the workplace. These situations, corresponding to prolonged exposure to a psychosocial risk, raise the question of recognition of psychological disorders as occupational diseases, an issue on which only a few countries – Denmark, Spain, France, Italy and Sweden – took a favourable stance some twenty years ago.
The new EUROGIP report therefore looks at :
One point concerns recognition of suicide.
2023
The New European Machinery Regulation, published in the Official Journal on 29 June 2023, repeals the 2006 Directive. EUROGIP and the ETUI have joined forces to publish an article-by-article comparative analysis of the two texts.
The authors, Pierre Belingard at EUROGIP and Stefano Boy at the ETUI, have designed this guide as an essential tool for stakeholders interested in the design, use and monitoring of machinery to assess the quality and relevance of the proposed changes. In addition, the guide should contribute to the production of high-quality harmonised standards.
The document is presented in 2 main columns, with the articles of the new Regulation 2023/1230 opposite those of Directive 2006/42. A colour code makes it easy to identify the differences between the two texts: addition, deletion, modification or relocation of part of the text.
It is thus similar to the previous comparison guide between Directives 98/37 and 2006/42 on which EUROGIP and the ETUI had already collaborated in 2008. In particular, EUROGIP translated the document into French.
2023
EUROGIP is publishing its 2022 annual activity report. In it you will find a reminder of what EUROGIP is in a few key points and the highlights of the year according to its activities, which all have occupational health and safety or insurance of occupational risks in Europe as common denominators:
2022|Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden
EUROGIP publishes a new Focus on the possibilities of recognition of Covid-19 as an accident at work/occupational disease (AW/OD). The document updates the information published in May 2020.
Indeed, since their first positions were taken in the midst of containment, the occupational injury insurers have refined or changed certain provisions, in particular because of the increase in the number of requests for recognition, both from healthcare workers and from other categories of workers.
Now that the systems have stabilized, certain observations can be made. These are presented in this Focus, together with a summary table and details of the conditions for recognition in nine European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain and Sweden.
2022|France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland
The EUROGIP 2022 Discussions (“Les Débats d’EUROGIP”) were held on 5 April on the theme “Protecting health and safety at work in a changing world”. In the aftermath of the conference, what should we learn from it?
Current changes, whether organizational or technological – and the two often go hand in hand – bring with them risks (traditional or new) that must be constantly assessed. They can also offer opportunities in terms of occupational health and prevention: fewer MSDs with exoskeletons, more autonomy and recognition in teleworking, etc. The key is, as usual, to carry out a risk assessment as early as possible.
This first report will be followed by an online replay and the proceedings (in French), containing a more exhaustive account of the discussions.
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21 March 2019|Paris
Download the initial report published just after the conference (in English). The proceedings of the conference are available in French only.
15 March 2018|Paris
One week after the 2018 Discussions, EUROGIP published af first report of the conference on Digital and occupational health and safety at work in Europe.
2 March 2017|Paris
The EUROGIP Discussions hold on Thursday 2 March 2017 in Paris focussed on “Health and safety at work, a performance lever for company
24 March 2016
19 March 2015|Paris
The EUROGIP Disssusions on 19 March 2015 held on the theme ““Europe and occupational safety and health: What achievements? What outlook?” (in Paris).
20 March 2014|Paris
The EUROGIP Discussions on 20 March 2014 focused on the devices in Europe to encourage companies to improve health and safety at work or reduce their claims to work.
19 March 2013|Paris
Readjustment and rehabilitation, disability management, return-to-work, etc. The speakers of the EUROGIP Discussions on 19 March 2013 presented the policies implemented in 9 European countries.
15 March 2012|Paris, France
Risks improperly identified, delayed effect of exposure up to several decades, difficulty to prove the relationship between exposure and disease, etc. Occupational diseases (ODs) represent an issue which is more complex to deal with than accidents at work.
To explore further the issue, the EUROGIP Discussions on 15 March 2012 gave the opportunity to express their views to representatives of the European Commission, of EU-OSHA, to European social partners and to insurance organisations against occupational diseases in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden.
2025
Commission Recommendation 2025/2609 of 18 December 2025 concerning the European schedule of occupational diseases.
2024
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024
laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act).
2021
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Econoic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions – 28.6.2021
2017
The purpose of this document is to answer certain questions relating to the transition between Directive 89/686/EEC and Regulation 2016/425 on personal protective equipment.
The fact that products complying with the PPE Directive cannot be placed on the market after 21/04/2019 will render their manufacture obsolete. Only products that comply with the PPE Regulation (i.e. with an EU declaration of conformity and, for category II and III PPE, an EU type-approval certificate) may be manufactured with a view to being placed on the market after this date.
2014
The text of the European Commission sets out an EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at work for the next 6 years. Considering the results of the evaluation of the previous strategy (2007-2012), it identifies three challenges to be met:
The Commission proposes to meet these three challenges by developing a series of actions grouped under seven big strategic objectives:
2014
The European Commission has produced a guide for labour inspectors on the interactions between the REACH Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006, the chemical substances directive and the directive on substances that are carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic to reproduction (CMR).
These three documents all lay down requirements for the use of hazardous chemical substances at work, and employers will now face two series of obligations. Although the REACH Regulation and the two directives mentioned above should supplement one another, their requirements overlap to some extent, and this could lead to inconsistencies in their application.
This document, prepared by the CHEMEX working group of the SLIC (Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee), aims to provide EU labour inspectors with a useful instrument to help them in practical application of the regulations by providing them with guidelines on the requirements of the REACH Regulation and the interfaces with application of the requirements laid down by the chemical substances and CMR directives.
2013
Directive 2013/35/EU replaces Directive 2004/40/EC of 29 April 2004 whose transposition had been delayed due to implementation difficulties in the medical community. The new directive lays down new exposure limit values (ELVs) and new values for the action levels (ALs).
2013
The overall objective of the evaluation was to provide a sound and evidence-based evaluation of the 2007-2012 EU strategy on safety and health at work and to provide reasoned recommendations for the development of future EU policy instruments in this area (e.g. a new post-2012 strategy).
The main conclusion in respect to the relevance of the current strategy is that it has been relevant and its merits have especially been in providing a clear policy basis and framework for coordination, and a common sense of direction for many of the actors involved in the OSH policy area. The strategy served as an important policy signal and driver for national action on OSH and also facilitated useful coordination in respect to public health initiatives. However, there remains room for improvement in the integration and coordination between OSH and other policy areas and between the various actors involved at the EU level. In particular, coordination with environmental policy and the important area of the REACH regulation on chemicals and their safe use has been inadequate. Also, the articulation between the strategy implementation and the European social dialogue has been limited and European social partners have felt a limited degree of ownership towards the strategy and have mainly implemented those parts of the strategy which they would have implemented in any case.
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The Regulation aims at improving the European standardisation system. Since 1st January 2013, the European standardisation bodies (CEN, CENELEC, etc.) have been entitled to develop standards for services and not only for products as it was so far the case. The SMEs, consumers, trade unions and environmental organisations will be represented and entitled to participate in the European standardisation bodies.
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24/01/2026
28th International Symposium on Epidemiology in Occupational Health
From the Workplace to the Population: Exposure and Prevention
24/01/2026
Early registration is open for this digital event. For the first time ever, the World Congress will offer Braindate, a unique networking tool will allow for a dynamic new approach to networking.
24/01/2026
Webinar “Anticipate, prepare and respond to crises – Invest Now in Resilient Occupational Safety and Health Systems” organized by ILO
28 April 2021 – 13:30 to 14:45 CET
English, French, Spanish
24/01/2026
The International Organizing Committee of the Congress decided to organize a virtual session on “COVID-19 and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)”.
The International Festival of Media for Prevention will also be on the program. Special sessions organized by the ILO and the ISSA. Translations into French, German, English and Spanish will be provided.
Registration early September 2020
24/01/2026
ONLINE expert workshop: Occupational Safety and Health Policy Indicators, organized by CIOP-PIB, within Perosh.
The online expert workshop will take place on Friday 16 October between 9 am and 3 pm (CET). The deadline for application is 13 September 2020.
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19/09/2021
The Congress initially scheduled on October 4-7, 2020 is postponed to September 19-22, 2021
24/01/2026
The symposium was postponed to 16-17 July in a virtual way.
24/01/2026
ISSA Prevention Event
12/03/2020
The next EUROGIP Discussions (“Les Débats d’EUROGIP”) will be held on 12 March 2020. They will focus on the prevention of occupational risks to which workers in the service of dependent persons in Europe are exposed.
Pre-program will be published soon.
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