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You will find here all the news concerning EUROGIP, health and safety at work from the point of view of Community bodies (directives, recommendations, strategic guidelines…) and standardisation, as well as examples of good practices in the prevention or insurance of accidents at work and occupational diseases in other countries.

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Abroad

01/03/21

AUSTRIA: recognition of mesotheliomas is relatively low

In Austria, employers and doctors must report any suspicion of an occupational disease. More than eight out of ten mesotheliomas are related to exposure to asbestos, which is mainly of occupational origin. They should therefore be reported to AUVA, the competent accident insurance body. However, the AUVA does not recognise relatively few mesotheliomas.
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Community news, Covid-19 News

27/02/21

Eurofound e-survey: Living, working and Covid-19

Eurofound has just put online the 3rd round of its survey “Living, working and COVID-19”. Its aim is to understand the profound implications of the pandemic on the way people live and work in Europe. The first two rounds of the survey were carried out in April and July 2020.
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Standardization

19/02/21

February 2021: What’s new in OSH standardization?

As part of its occupational safety and health (OSH) standardisation activity, EUROGIP monitors the publication of standards, new subjects on standardisation programmes and consultations at European (CEN) or international (ISO) level.
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Abroad, Covid-19 News

12/02/21

FRANCE: ministerial update on masks for non-sanitary use

Category 1 and 2 masks are replaced by “general public masks with filtration greater than 90%”. The French Ministries of Health, Economy and Labour updated at the end of January 2021 the information note on masks for non-sanitary use published in March 2020. As a result, category 2 masks can no longer be used to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic as of 28 January 2021.
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Standardization

12/02/21

Brexit and standardisation: where do we stand?

This was the title of a web conference organised by French Afnor Normalisation for its members. On the agenda were the changes introduced since 1 January 2021 by the trade and cooperation agreement that took over the organisation of trade between the UK and the EU.
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Community news

27/01/21

Hairdressing: European social partners cooperate to improve OSH

In a joint declaration dated December 2020, Coiffure EU and UNI Europa from the hairdressing sector welcomed their cooperation with the European Commission and EU-OSHA to implement the European framework agreement on health and safety at work (OSH) signed in 2016.
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