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21/12/21

FRANCE: everything you need to know about occupational injuries in 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic brought a significant number of economic activities to a halt from March 2020. In this context, occupational injuries and diseases (OI/OD) decreased overall compared to 2019.

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Standardization

15/12/21

December 2021: 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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14/12/21

BELGIUM: extension of the recognition of Covid-19 as occupational disease

If at least 5 people are victims of Covid-19 as a result of contamination in the same work area, they may be compensated for occupational disease.

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Community news

14/12/21

Platforms: European Commission makes proposals for better working conditions

On Thursday 9 December, the European Commission proposed several measures to improve working conditions on digital platforms, including a directive introducing a presumption of employment.

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Abroad, Covid-19 News

02/12/21

GERMANY: A majority of companies are coping with pandemic stress

A large majority of the 2,000 company managers interviewed by phone in June 2021 admitted that employees were facing stressful work situations as a result of the health crisis.

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Abroad

01/12/21

BELGIUM: the new website of the Federal Network for Mental Health at Work

In order to combine their competences for an integrated approach to this problem, the FPS Social Security has set up the "Federal Network for Mental Health @work".

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Standardization

01/12/21

November 2021: What’s new in OSH standardization?

Standards publications, new work items in the standardisation programmes and consultations at European (CEN) or international (ISO) level about the occupational health and safety (OSH) standardisation activity for the month of November 2021.

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Community news

22/11/21

MSDs: prevention from an early age

Faced with a high prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among children and young workers, EU-OSHA has identified through the literature the main risk factors and the preventive measures put in place.

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Standardization

22/11/21

Decree aims to improve the efficiency of the French standardisation system

Decree No. 2021-1473 of 10 November 2021 modernises and simplifies the French standardisation system to make it more effective.

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Community news

22/11/21

A High-Level Group will think about the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU

The group of 12 high-level experts set up by the European Commission met for the first time on 16 November to consider how to adapt social protection systems and the welfare state in the EU to the future.

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