‘OSH in figures’: identification and analysis of trends

This section provides information on specific worker groups, exposures, health outcomes, and industrial sectors, based on the collection, analysis and consolidation of existing hard data from national and international data sources (monitoring system - available in English only) such as:

The sources are both statistical and analytical background documents. The statistical sources are a combination of administrative registers and statistics (occupational disease registers, exposure registers), surveys, voluntary reporting systems and inspection reports. The combination of different sources with non-comparable data, examples from one Member State only, one-off studies and studies from outside national official data, helps to fill in gaps in knowledge.

The intention is to provide an evidence- base, as comprehensive a picture as possible of the potential OSH issues, risks and health effects on the selected topics and provide recommendations for research, policy and practice.
These reports reflect the main objective of the European RiskObservatory: the earlier identification of emerging trends and risks at work in order to help target resources and to enable more timely and effective interventions.

The 'OSH in figures' series is also complementary to the broad selection of good practice examples collected by the Agency since it was created. Where good practice information is available, you will find links to such information.
For some topics, more detailed information is available from Member states. Where this is the case, separate national reports are provided.