Abroad
11/01/17
BELGIUM: New legislation to assist workers with chronic work disabilities
A Royal Order effective on 1 December provides for a customized reintegration path to assist workers with a chronic...
News about EUROGIP and occupational risks in Europe
You will find here all the news concerning EUROGIP, health and safety at work from the point of view of Community bodies (directives, recommendations, strategic guidelines…) and standardisation, as well as examples of good practices in the prevention or insurance of accidents at work and occupational diseases in other countries.
Abroad
11/01/17
AUSTRIA: Monday is the day of the week on which commuting accidents are most numerous
In 2015, the AUVA, which insures 4.8 million people for occupational risks, recorded 11,210 commuting accidents. These accidents represented...
Abroad
11/01/17
FRANCE: A working group set up on collaborative robotics and its safety implications
Collaborative robotics is characterized by the interaction, in a given work area, between a human operator and an automated...
Abroad
11/01/17
GREAT-BRITAIN: Inspections on construction sites are increasingly rare
Labour Inspectors’ checks are increasingly rare in the construction industry, complains Bill Lawrence, a British trade unionist in this...
Abroad
11/01/17
THE NETHERLANDS: TNO publishes two reports on emerging risks
The research organization TNO has investigated the emerging risks related not only to the use of robots in the...
Abroad
18/11/16
GERMANY: digitization and quality of work
The German trade union confederation DGB is concerned about the consequences of digitization for working conditions. It surveyed about 9,700...
Abroad
16/11/16
FRANCE: a reference website dedicated to the prevention of occupational risks in the home
The new website www.prevention-domicile.fr is dedicated to personal services professionals, employees, private employers, and personal services organizations. It is the...
Abroad
10/11/16
FRANCE: TMS Pros, a programme to combat the leading recognized occupational disease
Knowing that musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are the leading recognized cause of occupational diseases in France and that they have...
Abroad
09/11/16
THE NETHERLANDS: occupational diseases in figures
According to the Dutch Centre for Occupational Diseases (Nederlands Centrum voor Beroepsziekten, NCvB), the number of new cases of...
Abroad
02/11/16
SWITZERLAND: The Suva broadens its offer of incentives for reintegration
The biggest compulsory accident insurance organization in Switzerland, the Suva, has put in place a new system of incentives...
