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14/03/22

FRANCE: Telework in 2021 and its impact on work and health

In January 2021, 27% of employees were teleworking, compared to 4% in 2019, according to DARES in its February 2022 issue on “Teleworking during the health crisis - What practices in January 2021? What impacts on work and health?”.

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27/02/22

FINLAND: Legislation to better protect teleworking civil servants

According to the Ministry of Finance, the law needs to be changed to better protect teleworking civil servants. Extended coverage would include accidents that occur during lunch breaks or on the way to and from school.

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26/02/22

ITALY: update on Covid-19-related work injury reports

The 16,779 work-related Covid-19 infections reported as accidents at work in January 2022 represent the highest figure recorded since 2020.

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23/02/22

SWITZERLAND: a commitment to health and safety benefits your company

This is a first. Five national occupational health and safety organisations are launching a joint campaign on the theme “Leadership Laboratory. Your commitment to safety and health benefits your company”.

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31/01/22

BELGIUM: Civil servants have “right to disconnect”

From 1 February next, federal civil servants, whether statutory, trainee, proxy or contractual, will have a “right to disconnect”. This new legislative provision is the result of "the conviction that the increasing use of digital tools outside working hours" can be a major source of stress.

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31/01/22

GERMANY: an in-depth evaluation of the “Kommitmensch” campaign

The project was ambitious. Under the slogan “kommmitmensch”, which could be translated as “come with me”, the DGUV and the professional associations and accident insurance funds jointly conducted a four-year campaign to increase the prevention culture in companies, especially SMEs. This campaign is now being thoroughly evaluated.

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31/01/22

GERMANY: combating online event fatigue

Meetings, video conferences, webinars... Online events are increasingly used as an alternative to face-to-face meetings. Of course, they have many advantages. But when they are too frequent and last too long, they can create fatigue and a feeling of exhaustion.

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30/12/21

SWITZERLAND: 13 non-compliant FFP2 masks withdrawn from the market

As the market surveillance authority, Suva has withdrawn 13 non-compliant FFP2 respiratory protection masks. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Suva has been monitoring the quality of these products available for sale.

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30/12/21

ITALY: Covid-19 declarations down in 2021 compared to 2020

Between the beginning of the pandemic and 30 November, Inail registrated 185,633 reports of work-related coronavirus infections and 797 deaths. These represent more than one-sixth of the total number of accident at work reports received as of January 2020.

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21/12/21

NETHERLANDS: a new centre for compensation of occupational diseases

The Netherlands is one of the few European countries that abolished (in 1966) the specific system of insurance against occupational accidents and diseases introduced in 1901. However, in September the Dutch government set up a new centre of expertise (LEC-SB) which could be a game changer.

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