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Safety and health at work is everyone’s concern. It’s good for you. It’s good for business.

EU-OSHA activities

22nd Baltic Sea Network on Occupational Health and Safety Annual Meeting

Tampere 22/Sep/2016

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EU-OSHA

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Six priority areas

Anticipating change

Facts & figures

Tools for OSH management

Raising awareness

Networking OSH knowledge

Networking & communication

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Priority 1. Anticipating change

Raise awareness among policy makers and researchers and foster debate on new and emerging OSH risks associated with the impact of ICT and work location and on other specific issues so as to inform policy-making and help set priorities for action and research

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Foresight

- Identify and address future OSH challenges resulting from the changing world of work

- 3 year cycle, including one year for reporting and promotion, and one for review and preparation

Foresight on new and emerging OSH risks of ICT

Report on scenario development and testing (2017)

Workshops involving target groups throughout the foresight activity (2017 and 2018)

Summaries of dissemination and promotion workshops (2017 and 2018)

Final report (2018)

Expert articles 2017

Additive manufacturing / 3D printing

Workers’ monitoring

E-retail sector

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Priority 2. Facts and figures

Contribute high quality information to the scientific evidence base that policy-makers may use in their decisions on OSH and in particular on the participation of workers, the practical management of OSH and the management of psychosocial risks.

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ESENER

ESENER: Contribute to the evidence base for policy-makers and researchers in OSH

on how OSH is currently managed

5 year cycle, including preparation, fieldwork, reporting and promotion and secondary analysis

ESENER 2 (2016-17) combined analysis of ESENER-2, EU LFS-AHM and EWCS datasets (2017)

OSH management (2018)

psychosocial risks management (2018)

Technical assessment of the ESENER-2 universe (2018)

ESENER 3 (2018-19)

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OSH overview: Older workers

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OSH overview: Micro and small enterprises

Evidence-based support for policy recommendations

Good practices in terms of strategies, policies and interventions

Contexts and arrangements for OSH in micro and small enterprises in the EU(2016)

Qualitative in-depth interviews with employers and workers of MSEs (2017)

Investigation of OSH policies, strategies, interventions and existing support. The role of intermediaries. (2017)

Final analysis and final conference (2018)

Focus on DE – DK – SE – EE – RO – FR – BE – IT – UK

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OSH overview: Work-related diseases

Contribute to design measures and set priorities for research and support the development of monitoring methods and awareness raising on work-related diseases in Europe.

Three projects (2016-18):• Rehabilitation and return-to-work after cancer

Instruments and practices• Work-related diseases linked to exposure to biological agents

Reviews on specific diseases• Review on alert and sentinel systems in OSH

Methodologies to identify work-related diseases

Fumigation ports

Exposure survey feasibility study

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OSH overview: Costs and benefits of OSH

Improve the understanding among policy-makers, researchers and intermediaries about the costs to society of ‘poor OSH’, in terms of work-related accidents and illness.

Estimation of the costs of work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths at European level: Overview about the availability and quality of necessary national and international data sources for a European level cost calculation• Quality assessment of available data sources• Systematic presentation of data and comparative analysis• Organisation of structured input from advisory board and key stakeholders

Collaboration with ILO on new estimates• Launch at XXI World Congress on Safety & Health at Work 2017 (Singapore)

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OSH overview: MSD (work-related musculo-skeletal diseases)

Improve the understanding among policy-makers, researchers and intermediaries about the most effective actions available to them for the prevention of work-related MSD and reintegration to work for those suffering from MSD.

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Priority 3. Tools for OSH management

Increase the number of enterprises carrying out their own, good quality and up-to-date risk assessment.

Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) tool:

Facilitate an increase in SMEs carrying out their own, good quality and up-to-date risk assessments

- 95 OiRA tools published and 30 under development

- OiRA community:15 OiRA national partners plus 6 EU sectoral social partners who developed an EU tool for their sector

- Accounts created since August 2011: 33.536

- Accumulated risk assessments carried out with OiRA (since Aug/11): 46.331

- OiRA partners in EU MSs: BE – BU – CY – CZ – FI – FR – EL – IS – IT – LV – LT – MT – PT – SK – ES

- Interactive Risk Assessment Tools (IRAT) Network: IE – NL – ES – UK – FR

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Priority 4. Raising awareness

HWC 16-17 – Healthy workplaces for all ages

E-guide

Data Visualisation tool

Promote sustainable work and healthy ageing right from the start and the importance of prevention throughout the whole working life;

Assist employers and workers (including small and micro enterprises) by providing information and tools for managing OSH in the context of an ageing workforce; and

Facilitate exchange of information and good practice in this area

HWC 18-19 – Dangerous substances

Building of partnerships;

Promoting good practice solutions and practical tools;

Informing on policy developments / legislative framework;

Promoting risk assessment and the hierarchy of prevention: elimination, substitution before other protective measures

Addressing the risks of specific groups, in particular gender issues;

Communication up and down the supply chains

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Priority 5. Networking knowledge

OSHwiki

Support to the EC EU-OSH info system

EU legislation and strategies update

e-tools

Consolidation of stakeholder views on research priorities

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