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The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) plans to launch a negotiated procurement procedure for data review, statistical analysis and data visualisation services supporting its forthcoming report, “OSH in Europe: State and Trends”. The new report will update the evidence presented in the 2023 edition and examine how major transformations in work are reshaping occupational safety and health (OSH) in Europe. The “OSH in Europe: State and Trends 2023” report is available here: https://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/occupational-safety-and-health-europe-state-and-trends-2023  

The contract will cover three complementary tasks: 

1. updating the quantitative evidence used in the 2023 report; analysing newly available data, comparing them, where appropriate, with previous comparable waves or reference periods; 

2. Identify relations between indicators, trends and discuss areas of improvement, concern or stagnation and 

3. selectively extend existing analyses at a broader context of megatrends, where further work would provide clear analytical or policy added value. The contractor will not be required to draft the complete report or collect new primary data. 

Purpose and scope 

The contractor will identify and map the statistics, tables, figures and findings included in the 2023 report and update them using the latest suitable evidence. A traceable crosswalk will link each item in the previous report to the corresponding updated source, figure or analytical result. Existing reports, tables, syntax and validated findings may be used as the starting point; adequate analysis should not be repeated from scratch. The analysis should consider among others, changes and challenges for OSH in the context of digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI), climate change, labour-market change, job quality, competitiveness, market structures and geopolitical dynamics.  

The work will assess which existing findings should be adopted, reproduced, updated, further disaggregated, extended or excluded. Additional analysis should focus on important gaps and on relationships between working conditions, preventive measures, OSH management, worker or establishment characteristics, health outcomes and other relevant variables. Descriptive and inferential methods may be used proportionately, while causal interpretations should be supported by the data and analytical design.  

Data sources and thematic coverage 

Key sources will include ESENER 2024; the OSH Pulse Flash Eurobarometer surveys of 2022 and 2025; the Workers’ Exposure Survey (WES); the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) 2024; and available Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee (SLIC) data on labour-inspection enforcement capacity. Relevant evidence from the OSH Barometer, Eurostat and other European or international sources may also be used according to its relevance, quality, accessibility and comparability. 

The analysis should examine key changes and challenges in occupational safety and health (OSH), notably digitalisation and AI, climate change, demographic shifts, and evolving labour markets. Furthermore, it should evaluate impacts on job quality, sustainable work, competitiveness, market structures, costs, productivity, and geopolitical dynamics. Where relevant, the analysis and interpretation should consider the economic and societal costs of OSH outcomes, drawing on EU-OSHA’s previous work and existing cost estimates (without requiring the development of a new comprehensive costing model).  

Further data sources could be proposed by the contractor to cover the areas mentioned above, if available. National data could also be used for triangulation purposes. Not every theme requires separate analysis: the contractor should prioritise new evidence, significant knowledge gaps and policy-relevant relationships. 

Analytical requirements 

The contractor will prepare an evidence map and a prioritised analytical programme. Comparisons over time must be preceded by an assessment of question wording, populations, coverage and indicator comparability. The analysis must apply appropriate weights, survey-design information, uncertainty measures, reliability rules and sensitivity checks. Direct measures must be distinguished from contextual or proxy indicators, and evidence from different sources should normally be triangulated rather than treated as interchangeable. 

Where suitable, the work may examine country, sector, occupation, enterprise-size, sex, age, employment-status and other subgroup differences. It may also investigate multivariable associations, interaction effects, combined risk profiles and relationships between prevention practices and worker or establishment characteristics. Geographical coverage, methodological uncertainty, disclosure restrictions and limitations to generalisation must be documented. All new or updated analyses must be transparent, traceable and reproducible. 

Expected deliverables 

Deliverables will include: an inception package with the inventory of 2023 statistical evidence, evidence map, dataset mappings, analytical questions and proposed methods; a 2023-to-current statistical crosswalk; a comparison matrix for new and previous comparable data; and an evidence-use log showing which findings were adopted, reproduced, updated, extended or excluded. 

The contractor will provide an interim and a final report, where all the findings will be presented. These will describe the methodology used for the analysis, the main findings and a discussion part which will critically assess and discuss each finding. Further to the OSH discussion, each one of the areas mentioned about should be discussed in dedicated section of the reports. The contractor will also provide in the reports interim and final statistical findings; updated tables and figures; targeted descriptive and inferential analyses; approximately 25–35 additional publication-quality graphs for new or extended analyses; editable graphs and underlying data tables; reproducible scripts and relevant data dictionaries; methodological, source, uncertainty and limitations notes; a concise synthesis; a technical annex. Visualisations must communicate the main findings clearly to non-specialist research and policy audiences. Finally, a PowerPoint presentation should be prepared by the contractor, presenting the main findings. 

Publication of this ex-ante publicity notice does not constitute a commitment by EU-OSHA to launch the procurement procedure.