OSH news

Formacare , the formaldehyde sector group of the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), has published the first results of its Voluntary Agreement to protect workers’ health from formaldehyde exposure. The results show that 99.7% of workers are...

The European Commission adopted a proposal for a Council Decision allowing Member States to take forward the process of ratifying the Convention on the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work . This is the first international...

Over the last years, investigators at the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have published over 50 epidemiologic studies on workplace-related cancer. The role of NIOSH in occupational cancer research has helped...

In the context of an increasingly competitive society and working environment, the use of performance-enhancing drugs is expected to grow in the future while the long-term consequences are still unknown. This scenario was further explored at the...