Community news
04/03/19
BREXIT: Notice concerning industrial products
As part of the preparations for Brexit, in early February the European Commission published a new notice of information...
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News about EUROGIP and occupational risks in Europe
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.
Abroad
04/03/19
SPAIN: Increase in the number of occupational injuries and diseases in 2018
With 602,316 lost-time occupational injuries (OIs), the figure for 2018 was 3.2% higher than in 2017, according to the...
Abroad
04/03/19
SWITZERLAND: Job burn-out will not have occupational disease status
The National Social Security Commission rejected by 17 votes to 7 a parliamentary initiative by Mathias Reynard (PS/VS) for...
Community news
04/03/19
Agreement on the European Labour Authority
On 14 February the Commission, the Parliament and the Council reached a provisional agreement concerning the legislative proposal made...
Abroad
04/03/19
AUSTRIA: 2000 deaths each year due to occupational cancers
On the occasion of World Cancer Day on 4 February, the AUVA launched a vast campaign entitled “Gib Acht,...
Community news
04/03/19
The European social partners present their work programme 2019-2021
In their sixth Joint Work Programme, the ETUC, BusinessEurope, CEEP and SME United announced their six priorities: digitization, improving...
Community news
04/03/19
Provisional agreement on more transparent and predictable working conditions in the EU
The Romanian presidency of the Council and the European Parliament signed a provisional agreement on 7 February concerning a...
Standardization
27/02/19
February 2019: What’s new in health and safety at work standardization?
New standards publications, new works, registration of new subjects or comity creations… Below is the result of the monitoring...
News
11/02/19
EUROGIP Discussions 2019: discover the programme and the speakers
Programme and speaker profiles are on line.
Abroad
06/02/19
LUXEMBOURG: The bonus/penalty system comes into effect
Luxembourg is one of the rare European countries in which there is a uniform rate of OSH insurance contributions,...
