{"id":29140,"date":"2021-09-28T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/possibility-of-recognising-covid-19-as-an-occupational-hazard-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:10:34","slug":"possibility-of-recognising-covid-19-as-an-occupational-hazard-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/en\/possibility-of-recognising-covid-19-as-an-occupational-hazard-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Possibility of recognising COVID-19 as an occupational hazard in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Eurostat publication provides an update on the recognition of Covid-19 as an accident at work (AW) and\/or occupational disease (OD) in the EU and EFTA countries.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the form of recognition varies and Covid-19 is recognized as :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an OD in 19 countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and Norway.<\/li>\n<li>AW in 3 countries: Italy, Slovenia and Spain<\/li>\n<li>either, according to national criteria, in 5 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Finland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Greece and Ireland, Covid-19 can be work-related, but it is not specified whether it can be considered as an AT or a PD. The report also reveals that recognition is not limited to specific economic sectors in the following countries: Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 3 looks at national recognition criteria and also reveals heterogeneous national practices.<\/p>\n<p>Report \u201cPossibility of recognising covid-19 as being of occupational origin at national level in EU and EFTA countries\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/op.europa.eu\/en\/publication-detail\/-\/publication\/1e7ec285-2032-11ec-bd8e-01aa75ed71a1\/language-en\/format-PDF\/source-232146935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pdf<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new Eurostat study, 19 EU\/EFTA countries recognize Covid-19 as an occupational disease, 3 as an accident at work and 5 as both. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[907],"class_list":["post-29140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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