“What if, together, we could make things happen?” This is the theme of an awareness-raising campaign launched by the SFP Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue. It has been offering tools to prevent psychosocial risks for over 25 years. But the crisis has come and gone, and it was necessary to act.

In Austria, employers and doctors must report any suspicion of an occupational disease. More than eight out of ten mesotheliomas are related to exposure to asbestos, which is mainly of occupational origin. They should therefore be reported to AUVA, the competent accident insurance body. However, the AUVA does not recognise relatively few mesotheliomas.

According to the provisional data it has just published, INAIL recorded 554,340 accidents at work in 2020, a drop of 13.6% compared to 2019. On the other hand, the number of deaths rose by 16.6%.

The provincial directorate of the National Social Security Institute (INSS) of Vizcaya recognised as an occupational injury “several periods of absence due to anxiety” of an employee in charge of the management of two Eroski City supermarkets in Muskiz.

As part of the public consultation launched by the European Commission on the future Strategic Framework on occupational Health and Safety (OSH) for 2021-2027, the French social partners within COCT unanimously adopted an opinion on 15 January.

According to provisional data, eleven people lost their lives at work in Finland last year. This is the lowest number of deaths at work ever recorded in a calendar year. Of the eleven victims, all were men, including ten employees and one entrepreneur. Six were in the construction sector.

“Working at home is no less important than working in a company or office”, explained Franco Bettoni, President of the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (INAIL). To underline the importance of preventing domestic accidents and the social value of compulsory insurance, Franco Bettoni recalled that since a 1999 law, amended in 2018, the Institute insures those who deal with housing in a habitual, exclusive and free way and who are between 18 and 67 years old.