Machinery Directive Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC contains provisions for manufacturers placing machinery products on the EU market. The Directive defines essential health and safety requirements, which are further specified by European harmonised standards. The essential health and safety...

Aims Directive 2006/42/EC contains provisions for machinery products that are placed on the market. The Directive aims at harmonising the health and safety requirements guaranteeing a high level of protection for EU workers and citizens, while ensuring the free circulation of machinery on the EU...

Aim The paper aims to provide practical insights and experiences that labour inspectors may encounter when dealing with robotics and digitalisation in the workplace. It also addresses the challenges labour inspectors face in applying existing legislation to a wide range of technological changes. The...

Background In 2003 the Commission published Commission Recommendation 2003/670/EC of 19 September 2003 concerning the European schedule of occupational diseases. The objective of the text is to encourage a consistent approach across the EU with regard to occupational diseases. In 2022, the...

Radon is a radioactive gas that comes from the natural decay of uranium found in the soil and in rock. Exposure to indoor radon constitutes an important part of workers’ overall exposure to ionising radiation, particularly in certain geographical areas (e.g. mountainous regions) and in specific...

The NEPSI industry sector organisations and their counterpart trade union federations negotiated a multisectoral social dialogue Agreement between 1 September 2005 and 2 February 2006. NEPSI stands for European Network for Silica and brings together a wide range of industrial sectors and labour...

Scope The Framework Agreement on Digitalisation was signed by the EU cross-sectoral social partners: BusinessEurope, ETUC, CEEP and SMEunited. It covers all workers and employers in both the public and private sectors and across all economic activities. It is designed to foster the integration of...

These guidelines have been drawn up by the European education sector social partners —the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) and the European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE)— and build on activities carried out as part of the project "Social Partners Promoting Decent...

Hazardous medicinal products (HMPs) are medicinal products that can cause carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic (CMR) and other adverse effects in exposed workers. All HMPs containing one or more substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic fall within the scope of Directive 2004...

The non-binding guide, drawn up according to Directive 2003/10/EC on the minimum safety and health requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (Noise), is intended to assist companies, to implement the provisions of this Directive. The guidance document...