Abroad
11/01/17
AUSTRIA: Monday is the day of the week on which commuting accidents are most numerous
In 2015, the AUVA, which insures 4.8 million people for occupational risks, recorded 11,210 commuting accidents. These accidents represented...
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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
11/01/17
FRANCE: A working group set up on collaborative robotics and its safety implications
Collaborative robotics is characterized by the interaction, in a given work area, between a human operator and an automated...
Abroad
11/01/17
GREAT-BRITAIN: Inspections on construction sites are increasingly rare
Labour Inspectors’ checks are increasingly rare in the construction industry, complains Bill Lawrence, a British trade unionist in this...
Standardization
11/01/17
2017-2018 strategic guidelines of the AFNOR OSH strategic policy committee
The AFNOR strategic policy committee on “Occupational Safety and Health” (CoS SST) has presented its new guidelines for 2017-2018....
Abroad
11/01/17
THE NETHERLANDS: TNO publishes two reports on emerging risks
The research organization TNO has investigated the emerging risks related not only to the use of robots in the...
News
28/12/16
Happy New Year 2017
All of us at EUROGIP wish you a Happy New Year 2017. Take care of your health and safety at work!...
News
07/12/16
Digital transformation – Impact and challenges for occupational injury insurance
The digital development is such today that some speak of a fourth Industrial Revolution. It changes the structure of work and brings new challenges and responsibilities for the occupational injury insurance.
Community news
29/11/16
PPE Regulation: the Commission decides on the transition period
At the workshop that it held in Brussels on 16 November, the European Commission confirmed the worst scenario that...
Standardization
29/11/16
ISO and social policy: a controversial trend
Eckhard Metze, Head of the Employers’ Bureau in the Secretariat of the KAN and Vice-President of the DIN standardization...
Standardization
29/11/16
ISO 45001 standard: a further step forward
ISO/PC 283/WG 1 met once again from 30 October to 4 November at Klaipeda in Lithuania to examine follow-up...
