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Here you have access to the whole database of useful links to occupational safety and health information that EU-OSHA has collected and compiled from other organisations in the Member States, Europe and beyond.

While EU-OSHA cannot be held responsible for the information on external sites, we make every effort to ensure that the information we link to is relevant and reliable.

Useful links can be searched for in various ways, including by the topic covered, by sector or by country.


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Link icon ECHA Guidance
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ECHA European Chemicals Agency

25.01.2012 - Last modified : 25.01.2012

This website assists industry and authorities to understand their obligations under REACH and provides guidance on how to fulfil them. It contains 5 main elements: About REACH gives an ...

http://guidance.echa.europa.eu/
Languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish
See also: Dangerous Substances
Link icon Labelling and Safety Data Sheets (CLP)
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ECHA European Chemicals Agency

25.01.2012 - Last modified : 25.01.2012

A supplier must label his / her substances or mixtures in accordance with the CLP rules before he places them on the market. Labelling means to inform all those who handle the chemical about its ...

http://echa.europa.eu/clp/labelling_sds_en.asp
Languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish
See also: Dangerous Substances
Link icon Occupational health and safety risks in the healthcare sector - Guide to prevention and good practice
18.01.2012 - Last modified : 23.04.2012

The focus of this guideline is to present up-to-date technical and scientific knowledge regarding the prevention of the most significant risks in healthcare (especially biological, musculoskeletal, ...

http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/occupational-health-and-safety-risks-in-the-healthcare-sector-pbKE3111047/
Languages: German, English, French
See also: Accident Prevention | Health Care
Link icon Participating on Equal Terms?: the gender dimensions of direct participation in organisational change (Summary)
13.01.2012 - Last modified : 13.01.2012

A marked difference in the positions of men and women is a key feature of European workplaces –yet the sexual division of labour is often overlooked in discussions of organisational change. A report ...

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef9935.htm
Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
See also: Women and health at work | Worker Participation
Link icon Older Women,Work and Health. Reviewing the evidence
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TAEN – The Age and Employment Network

13.01.2012 - Last modified : 13.01.2012

This report reviews the health and work of older women. It explores the risk facing older women, such as musculoskeletal problems at work and provides recommendations for changes at the workplace.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/documents/en-gb/for-professionals/health-and-wellbeing/id5604_older_women_work_and_health_reviewing_the_evidence_2006_pro.pdf
Languages: English
See also: Accident Prevention | Ageing workers | Stress | Women and health at work | Workplace Health Promotion
Link icon Women's Work
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Hazards Magazine.

13.01.2012 - Last modified : 13.01.2012

This article provides information on the work which women do, and outlines questions that women should consider in respect of: Workplace policy Union policy Management issues Safety and ...

http://www.hazards.org/haz101/h101centre.pdf
Languages: English
See also: Women and health at work | Worker Participation
Link icon BEST No. 1/2000. Shiftwork and Health BEST No. 1/2000. Shiftwork and Health
13.01.2012 - Last modified : 13.01.2012

Shiftwork and other forms of working at unusual hours, and especially working at night, have always raised some health concerns. Shiftworkers, their employers, and governments responsible for health ...

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2000/09/en/1/ef0009en.pdf
Languages: English
See also: Changing World of Work | Stress | Women and health at work
Link icon Gender and occupational health and safety
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Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

13.01.2012 - Last modified : 13.01.2012

This website provides some key points of the impact of occupational health and safety by gender. Women make up 42% of the employed population in the EU. Men and women are not the same and the jobs ...

http://www.hse.gov.uk/diversity/gender.htm
Languages: English
See also: Women and health at work
Link icon A Guide to Occupational Health and Safety in the New Zealand Sex Industry
13.01.2012 - Last modified : 13.01.2012

This guide has been written for everyone involved in the New Zealand sex industry: sex workers both employed and self-employed, operators, owners and others such as sex worker organisations.

http://www.osh.govt.nz/order/catalogue/pdf/sexindustry.pdf
Languages: English
See also: Women and health at work
Link icon Health and Safety at Work for pregnant women and new mothers
13.01.2012 - Last modified : 13.01.2012

A factsheet that provides information on the hazards and risks that pregnant working women face at the workplace and the requirements by their employers to identify and reduce these hazards and ...

http://whig.org.uk/members/whig/preganancy-at-work-professionals-guide.pdf
Languages: English
See also: Risk assessment | Women and health at work
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