Health, hygiene and safety at work
Although one of the goals of the European Union is to create employment through the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs, it also tries to ensure that these new jobs are of a higher quality. Health and safety at work is now one of the most important and most advanced areas of EU social policy. Community action in this area is not limited to legislation. The European Institutions carry out several activities providing information and guidance and promoting a safe and healthy working environment in cooperation with the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Health and safety at work – general rules
- Community strategy on health and safety at work (2007-2012)
- Community programme for employment and solidarity - PROGRESS (2007-2013)
- European Progress Microfinance Facility (EPMF)
- Communication on the practical implementation of directives on health and safety at work
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EUROFOUND)
- Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work (ACSHW)
- Statistics on public health and health and safety at work
- European schedule of occupational diseases
- Organisation of working time: basic Directive
- Community strategy on health and safety at work (2002-2006)Archives
- EQUIPMENT, SIGNS AND LOADS
- PROTECTION OF SPECIFIC GROUPS OF WORKERS
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THE WORKPLACE
- Health and safety of workers: conditions applicable to the workplace
- Temporary and mobile work sites
- Extractive industries by means of boreholes
- Extractive industries in the surface and underground
- Equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres
- Reassessing the regulatory social framework for more and better seafaring jobs in the EU
- Strengthening of maritime labour standards
- Fishing vessels
- Improved medical treatment on board vessels
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CHEMICAL, PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL AGENTS
- Protection of workers from exposure to biological agents
- Protection of workers exposed to asbestos
- Exposure to electromagnetic fields
- Exposure to noise
- Exposure to mechanical vibration
- Risk of explosive atmospheres
- Exposure to chemical agents
- Dangers arising from ionising radiation
- Exposure to artificial optical radiation
- Exposure to carcinogens and mutagens
- European system for registration of carriers of radioactive materials (Proposal)
- Exposure to biological agentsArchives
- Exposure to asbestosArchives