Eurogip news and professional risks in Europe

Abroad

16/03/22

FRANCE: a four-year plan to prevent serious and fatal accidents

Laurent Pietraszewski, Secretary of State for Pensions and Occupational Health, presented the first Plan for the Prevention of Serious and Fatal Accidents for the next four years on Monday 14 March 2022.

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Abroad

16/03/22

DENMARK: preventing MSDs in the retail sector

From 15 March 2022, the Danish Working Environment Authority will pay special attention to ergonomic aspects in grocery shops, supermarkets and other shops to avoid MSDs.

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Community news

14/03/22

EU strengthens protection of workers from hazardous chemicals

The Council gave its final green light to the amendment of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive. The aim is to improve the protection of workers by setting exposure limits for acrylonitrile and nickel compounds and by lowering the existing limits for benzene.

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Abroad

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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News

14/03/22

Social protection for platform workers: a new EUROGIP report

In the context of the publication by the European Commission of a proposal for a directive on the improvement of working conditions on digital platforms, EUROGIP publishes a new report entitled “Platform workers: what status for what social protection?”

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Community news

28/02/22

MEPs give their opinion on the strategic framework for OSH in the EU

The European Parliament's Employment and Social Affairs Committee adopted its report on the new EU Strategic Framework for Health and Safety at Work (OSH) 2021-2027 by a large majority on 1 February.

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Abroad

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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Abroad

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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Standardization

26/02/22

AI and occupational health and safety on the agenda of the EUROSHNET conference

The 7th EUROSHNET conference will be held on 20 October 2022 in Paris on the theme "Artificial Intelligence meets Occupational Safety and Health". Registration is open and the programme is online.

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Standardization

25/02/22

February 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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