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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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16/10/24

Asbestos: Commission seeks experts to prepare new guidelines

Experts and interested stakeholders are invited to contribute to the development of new non-binding guidelines on good practice for the safe management of asbestos in the workplace. To this end, the European Commission's DG Employment is organising a series of online workshops.
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30/09/24

Roadmap on carcinogens: a new website for more accessible information

Every year in the EU, around 100,000 people die of cancer due to exposure to carcinogens at work, and over 120,000 others are diagnosed with cancer. Faced with this situation, it is essential to ‘understand the risks and take action’. This is the aim of the new Carcinogens Roadmap website.
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30/09/24

Mesothelioma: still a topical occupational disease

Although the number of cases has been falling since 2013, Eurostat shows that in 2021 there will still be 2,380 deaths in the EU from mesothelioma, a cancer mainly linked to occupational exposure to asbestos. This exposure may have taken place several decades before the disease developed.
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