Abroad
09/11/16
THE NETHERLANDS: occupational diseases in figures
According to the Dutch Centre for Occupational Diseases (Nederlands Centrum voor Beroepsziekten, NCvB), the number of new cases of...
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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.
Community news
02/11/16
An e-guide on OSH management in the context of an ageing labour force
As part of its “Healthier and safer work at any age” campaign“, EU-OSHA is making available a multilingual electronic...
Abroad
02/11/16
SWITZERLAND: The Suva broadens its offer of incentives for reintegration
The biggest compulsory accident insurance organization in Switzerland, the Suva, has put in place a new system of incentives...
Abroad
02/11/16
DENMARK: A new organization for the compensation of work-related casualties
Since 1 July 2016, the National Board of Industrial Injuries (Arbejdsskadestyrelsen) has been replaced by the Labour Market Insurance...
Community news
02/11/16
The Council reaches an agreement on ELVs for 11 new carcinogenic agents
On 13 October 2016, the EU Council reached an agreement to set exposure limit values (ELVs) for eleven new...
Abroad
02/11/16
GERMANY: Young workers and absenteeism
Young workers have 2.5 times more accidents and apprentices are far more often absent due to injuries, according to...
Abroad
02/11/16
GERMANY: 3.4% increase in occupational injuries in the first half of 2016
According to its provisional statistics, the DGUV registered 14,156 more occupational injuries subject to reporting in the first half...
Standardization
02/11/16
Challenges for collaborative robotics
On 30 September last, the Directorate General for Enterprise (Direction Générale des Entreprises, DGE) and industry associations SYMOP and FIM held a...
Community news
02/11/16
MSDs: What recognition as occupational diseases in Europe?
EUROGIP publishes results of a new study regarding the recognition of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) as occupational diseases in Germany, Austria,...
News
21/10/16
MSDs: What recognition as occupational diseases in Europe?
EUROGIP publishes results of a new study regarding the recognition of musculoskeletal disorders as occupational diseases in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland.
