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Elke Schneider, Project Manager, European risk observatory
European risk observatory – European risk observatory – Use of HSW statisticsUse of HSW statisticsEurostat ESAW meeting, Luxembourg, 21st April 2009
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work founded 1996
Use of ESAW data by EU-OSHA
Since the agency started its first campaignsEW 2000 – Preventing accidents at work
Recent activities: European Week on Young Workers Data collection on the transport sector Data collection on ageing workers, HORECA sector EW Week on Maintenance
Cross-link to data collection on occupational diseases – accidents linked to lifting loads/MSDs, suicide at work, sudden cardiovascular events
Some potential uses for EU-OSHAs analysis
Evidence base for topics addressed in campaigns Input into prevention – help focus good practice data
collection Highlight emerging issues Background information for legislative initiatives, e.g. EU
Directives, changes to national legislation Support to labour inspections’ actions, e.g. SLIC campaigns Input into data collection – topics and issues
Need for information on specific issues, e.g. violence at work
Highlight needs for further methodology development, e.g. cross-tabulation, specific accidents
Link to occupational diseases, e.g. MSDs, violence
ESAW meetingExample: Phase 3 figures –
maintenance
Maintenance – the Agency´s 2010-11 campaign
The campaign sees maintenance as a ubiquitous process rather than a “sector” or maintenance workers as a “worker group”.
Corrective or reactive maintenance, when actions are intended to restore a system from a failed state to a working state (e.g. repair or replacement of broken components)
Preventive maintenance, when actions are carried out at predetermined intervals or according to prescribed criteria intended to reduce the probability of failure or the degradation of the functioning of an item.
Maintenance - statistics
Data from France and Spain indicate that about 6% of the working population is involved in maintenance tasks
According to a 2005 survey in France, maintenance is the most subcontracted function in industry.
In Spain, maintenance workers are most often found in the services sector (70% in 2004), followed by industry (19%), and construction (10%).
Maintenance workers are exposed to
many and varied hazards at work physical hazards: noise, vibrations, excessive heat
and cold, radiation, high physical workload, chemical hazards: work with asbestos, welding,
exposure to dangerous substances when working in confined spaces
biological hazards: legionella, hepatitis A virus, leptospira,
psychosocial hazards (poor work organisation). Maintenance workers are also at risk of all
types of accidents.
Maintenance - statistics
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Spanish data
Sectors concerned
Majority of maintenance-related accidents in manufacturing, construction, real estate, renting and business activities and in Austria also in hotels and restaurants.
Real estate, renting and business activities: 40% of maintenance-related accidents in Finland, 34% in Spain, and 26% in Belgium
Electricity, gas and water supply sector: in 2006 50% of accidents in Finland and Belgium, 34% in Spain, and 23% in Italy
Maintenance statistics from the ESAW phase 3Fatal accidents
116 71 52
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maintenance-related fatal accidents fatal accidents
10-20% of fatal accidents are maintenance-related
Number of accidents related to maintenance activities (EUROSTAT, 2007)
2003 2004 2005 2006
Spain Total 792565 766460 780433 769657
Maintenance-related
17% 14% 14% 14%
Belgium Total n.d. n.d. 72541 74868
Maintenance-related
21% 19%
Finland Total 58498 58123 62959 63462
Maintenance-related
19% 18% 19% 19%
ESAW - More requests - needs
Violence at work Variables deviation/violence between employees / from
external people Mode of injury – mental stress or shock Type of injury – shocks after agression/threats by persons Cross-tabulation with sectors, gender, ageTransport Information by gender and age, because there are very
different profiles in the different transport subsectorsWomen at work Which sectors, groups, cross-tabulations Causes and circumstances of accidents, e.g. violence Highlight specific issues for prevention, where there are
major differences between female and male workers
Some potential uses for EU-OSHAs analysis
Evidence base for topics addressed in campaigns Input into prevention – help focus good practice data
collection Highlight emerging issues Background information for legislative initiatives, e.g. EU
Directives, changes to national legislation Support to labour inspections’ actions, e.g. SLIC campaigns Input into data collection – topics and issues
Need for information on specific issues, e.g. violence at work
Highlight needs for further methodology development, e.g. cross-tabulation, accidents
Recognition of occupational diseases, e.g. MSDs
Thank you for your attention!
http://riskobservatory.osha.europa.eu/