Preventing work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) is everyone’s job! EU-OSHA and partners are celebrating European Week for Safety and Health at Work (25 to 29 October) with a packed agenda.
Events are taking place across Europe and beyond to raise awareness on work-related MSDs and the need to manage them and to promote a culture of risk prevention.
This article aims to contribute to fill the existing gap in research on working conditions and OSH of LGBTI workers. To do so, it presents findings from a recent EU-OSHA research project, and data from the EU LGBTI surveys carried out by the Fundamental Rights Agency.
The initiative National Strategy for the Work Environment was introduced in 2011 to ensure a safe, secure and healthy work environment in Denmark. The National Working Environment Authority is responsible for the initiative. The strategy was further extended and improved in 2015.
REDI is a non-profit network association whose members include some of the largest Spanish companies and multinationals located in Spain. REDI has developed a number of activities to foster an inclusive and respectful environment in organisations, helping to eradicate socio-cultural prejudices and discrimination practices that hinder LGBTI workers’ professional development and perfo
This guide supports transgender employees, their employers/human resource staff and work colleagues to develop a safe and supportive working environment where transgender employees can be fully integrated. The ultimate aim of the guide is to create a safe working environment with reduced psychosocial and OSH risks for transgender workers.
In 2017 Osalan, the Basque Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, with the support of Emakunde, the Basque Women’s Institute, developed a gender-sensitive risk-prevention toolkit with the aim of raising awareness among all workers, employers and prevention service experts of the sexual (biological) and gender (cultural) differences between men and women, so that they can be taken into account when developing and implementing occupational risk prevention activities.
The initiative Risk assessment toolkit for non-EU nationals was launched in 2009 by the Brescia health authority in collaboration with social partners to help workplaces incorporate OSH risks related to non-EU migrant workers into their risk assessment process and to promote OSH-related activities specific to them.
March 2015_Board Agenda
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