EU-OSHA premises - Santiago de Compostela, 12 - 48003 - Bilbao

On 11 June 2015, EU-OSHA hosted a seminar in Bilbao to discuss three review articles on the future of work. The main aim was to identify possible emerging risks or challenges for safety and health at work from crowdsourcing, the use of performance...

ITUH, Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5; 1210 Brussels

Debates over retirement age and keeping older workers working are ongoing across Europe. This has put the sustainability of work on the agenda. But how should gender issues be part of making work sustainable, so the whole workforce, men and women...

Enterprise Europe Network

Enterprise Europe Network

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions.

The Network is  active worldwide. It brings together experts from member organisations that are renowned for their excellence in business support.

The Communication Partnership Project (CPP) aims to raise awareness of the importance of OSH to SMEs and to provide them with easy access to practical information and useful contacts at national and regional levels, including national partnership meetings, awareness-raising packages and other activities such as EEN OSH Awards.

The EEN members are one of the main partners that help EU-OSHA achieve its objectives, together with the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and EU-OSHA’s national focal points.

The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs:

The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) is the European Commission service responsible for completing the internal market for goods and services; helping turn the EU into a smart, sustainable, and inclusive economy; fostering entrepreneurship and growth by reducing the administrative burden on small businesses; facilitating access to funding for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and supporting access to global markets for EU companies; and generating policy on the protection and enforcement of industrial property rights, coordinating the EU position and negotiations in the international intellectual property rights (IPR) system, and assisting innovators on how to effectively use IP rights.

European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA):

 

The European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) was established on 1 April 2021 with the aim to enhance innovation in the single market, by creating strong synergies to support the recovery of the European economy and grouping in one Agency all the activities of the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the programmes related to SMEs.

The Agency is, indeed, responsible for developing and implementing the European Innovation Council and manages other EU programmes in the fields of SME support, innovation ecosystems, single market, consumer policy and interregional innovation investments. 

Enterprise Europe Network Occupational Safety and Health Ambassadors and their role

Enterprise Europe Network Occupational Safety and Health Award

Since 2009, the EEN has been cooperating with EU-OSHA to raise awareness of OSH among SMEs and micro-enterprises. To carry out this task, the EEN nominates OSH Ambassadors at country level. Their role comprises coordinating activities, promoting OSH to SMEs at national level and reporting back to EU-OSHA once a year on their OSH activities.

In 2021, the programme was extended to six non-EU countries (i.e. countries receiving financial assistance under the EU Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Türkiye) and IPA EEN OSH Ambassadors were nominated.

See the complete list of EEN OSH Ambassadors

Within the CPP, the role of the Communication Partnership Working Group (CPWG), which is composed of three national focal points, three EEN OSH Ambassadors and representatives of EU-OSHA, DG GROW and EISMEA, is mainly to provide strategic and expert advice on the implementation and monitoring of the EU-OSHA communications partnerships strategy.

Enterprise Europe Network Occupational Safety and Health Award

In the frame of the agency's Healthy Workplaces Campaign, the EEN OSH Award aims to raise awareness of and promote OSH to SMEs. The EEN members of the 27 Member States, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the IPA countries, are invited to put forward for recognition any of their projects that aim to promote better safety and health at work in SMEs and that fit into one of the following categories: activities and events promoting OSH; network building; and print and online communication and publications.

2013 | 2014/15 | 2016/17 | 2018/19 | 2020/21 

 

As one of the EU’s decentralised agencies, EU-OSHA is an autonomous EU body, maintaining close relationships, both formal and informal, with EU institutions and many EU bodies and agencies. The Liaison Office in Brussels plays an important role in sustaining these links.

EU-OSHA provides information to EU institutions as well as to Member States, Social Partners and the occupational safety and health (OSH) community. The institutions are among the primary users of its products and services.  Formal relationships include the following:

  1. EU-OSHA plays a key role in implementing EU policies in the area of OSH, notably the EU OSH Strategic Framework
  2. EU-OSHA’s Management Board includes representatives of the European Commission (EC) and one observer appointed by the European Parliament (EP)
  3. The contribution to EU-OSHA’s budget is determined through the general EU budgetary procedure.
  4. Various accountability mechanisms are in place, ensuring full reporting by  EU-OSHA to the Institutions on its activities

Informal relationships also exist:

  1. EU-OSHA invites institutional representatives to participate in its various projects and networks. EC officials regularly serve on advisory or steering committees for EU-OSHA projects. Speakers or participants from the EC, European Parliament or EU bodies are invited to EU-OSHA conferences;
  2. EU-OSHA cooperates with institutions on projects and events, and works with the Council on Presidency programmes, providing expertise, speakers, moderators or other support for Presidency events. Joint events are also organised with the European Parliament;
  3. EU-OSHA is involved in the EU institutions’ committees and networks, such as the EC’s Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work (ACSH) and the Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee (SLIC).
  4. EU-OSHA regularly informs and collaborates with the formal European Social Dialogue   and its Sectoral Social Dialogue Committees.

European Commission

European Parliament

  • Employment and Social Affairs Committee: EU-OSHA reports to the EMPL Committee on a regular basis.  Frequent briefings are given to the Committee regarding EU-OSHA’s work programme and activities, as well as ongoing collaboration with key Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). 

The Council of the EU

  • The Council of the EU.  EU-OSHA collaborates systematically with the activities of the Council of the EU, specifically via its national Focal Point Network and via the members of the tripartite Management Board.  The Agency also provides assistance to those countries hosting the rotating Council presidency, via its national networks and in collaboration with the Brussels-based Permanent Representations to the EU.

 

14/12/2015

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