This is particularly important in the context of the EU Pillar, as it aims to deliver fundamental social rights, including fair working conditions, equal opportunities and access to the labour market. As stated in one of its key 20 principles ‘Workers have the right to a working environment adapted to their professional needs and which enables them to prolong their participation in the labour market.’
Longer and healthier working lives can reduce precariousness while improving productivity. Indeed, good safety and health at work leads to numerous benefits, such as reducing sickness absence, cutting healthcare costs, keeping older workers in employment, stimulating more efficient working methods and technologies and contributing to a better work-life balance.
Directive 2014/33/EU establishes essential safety requirements and conformity assessment procedures for lifts and safety components for lifts within the European Union.
The ATEX directive sets forth uniform rules across the European Union for the making available on the market and putting into service of equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres.
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is organising a selection procedure for traineeships at EU-OSHA for the nationals of the Member States of the European Union and Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein (parties of the EEA agreement).
The traineeships will be based in the Bilbao office and at the Agency’s Brussels Liaison Office.
Further information on our activities can be found on our website: http://osha.europa.eu
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Flour dust can lead to occupational asthma. This video shows how using low dust flour can lower flour wastage and vastly reduce dust emissions.