Eurogip news and professional risks in Europe

20/12/22

December 2022: What’s new in OSH standardisation?

EUROGIP monitors newly published texts or work in progress at European (CEN) or international (ISO) level in the field of occupational health and safety (OHS) standardisation.

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News

19/12/22

EUROGIP publishes a new Focus

The latest EUROGIP publication deals with Community law on health and safety at work, which has been constantly evolving since the Single European Act of 1987 until the end of 2022.

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Community news

18/12/22

December 2022: Latest legislative developments in occupational health and safety

By the end of 2022, under the Czech Presidency of the EU, a number of Community dossiers relating to health and safety at work had made good progress or even led to new acts.

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Community news

15/12/22

Political agreement on the draft Machinery Regulation

The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on 15 December on the Machinery regulation to replace the 2006 directive.

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Community news

15/12/22

Council of the EU calls for safe AI that respects EU fundamental rights

The Council of the EU adopted on 6 December its common position on the Commission's proposal for a Regulation on artificial intelligence in April 2021. It is the first to complete the first stage of the legislative co-decision process.

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Community news

15/12/22

Asbestos: Council agreement to improve worker protection

EU Employment Ministers today agreed on 8 December 2022 on their position on a proposed directive to lower current levels of exposure of workers to asbestos and to modernise the method of counting asbestos fibres.

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Community news

30/11/22

Healthy Workplaces Campaign: 2022 edition on MSDs ends, next one will focus on OHS and digital

The closing summit of the EU-OSHA MSD Prevention Campaign 2020-2022 presented best practices in MSD prevention and introduced the 2023-2025 edition dedicated to occupational health and safety in the digital age.

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News, Standardization

30/11/22

AI and OHS: a look back at the Euroshnet conference in October 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) meets Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) was the theme of the 7th EUROSHNET conference which took place in Paris on 20 October and which brought together some 130 OSH experts from the world of standardisation, testing and certification, from 15 countries.

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Community news

30/11/22

A new Recommendation on occupational diseases incorporating Covid-19

In order to encourage a consistent approach across the EU, the Commission is now proposing an update of the Recommendation on the European Schedule of Occupational Diseases to include Covid-19.

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Abroad

23/11/22

ITALY: tumour linked to mobile phone use recognised in PM

The Court of Appeal of Turin has just ruled in favour of a 63-year-old former technician who was seeking recognition as an occupational disease of the benign auricular tumour of which he was a victim for having used his mobile phone at work for at least 2.5 hours a day for 13 years.

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