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15.05.2012 Hairdressing sector agrees on new measures to improve health and safety standards

Hairdressing sector agrees on new measures to improve health and safety standards

An agreement on guidance for hairdressers to work in a healthy and safe environment has been reached by the trade union UNI Europa Hair & Beauty and the hairdressing employers, Coiffure EU.
The document builds on existing national best practices in the Member States that are effective in reducing occupational health risks.
Hairdressing is the most high risk profession for occupational skin diseases. In some countries up to 70% of hairdressers suffer from work-related skin damage, which is at least 10 times more than the average for workers of all sectors.
EU-OSHA contributes for the risk prevention in hairdressing through its Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) project which has been already successfully adapted and implemented in European hairdressing enterprises.

European framework agreement on the protection of occupational health and safety in the hairdressing sector

Declaration of the European Social Partners on health and safety in the hairdressing sector

Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) project

10.05.2012 Working together: Risk prevention means active leadership and worker engagement

Working together: Risk prevention means active leadership and worker engagement

Management leadership and worker participation are the keys to good safety and health performance at the workplace.
While effective management is about securing the health, safety and welfare of all staff, managers do not have the solutions to all health and safety problems. Workers and their representatives have the detailed knowledge and experience of how the job is done and how it affects them. Therefore workers and managers need to work together closely to find joint solutions to common problems.

To find out more useful information that can help workers and managers to improve workplace safety and health visit our web sections:

Management Leadership
Worker participation
Our Healthy Workplaces Campaign website provides further practical information on the topics.

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