News - 26 April 2017 11:30

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

This Friday (28 April) is World Day for Safety and Health at Work. This year's campaign focuses on the need for countries to improve their capacity to collect and utilise reliable occupational safety and health data.

Eurofound has compiled information on a broad range of issues, including exposure to physical and phychosocial risks, as part of a data visualisation tool for our sixth European Working Conditions survey; which involved interviews with nearly 44,000 workers in 35 countries.

As part of the run-up to the day, our colleagues at the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-Osha) are holding the Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards ceremony in Valetta, Malta. The competition, which is a key element of the 2016-17 ‘Healthy Workplaces for All Ages’ Campaign, aims to highlight innovative examples of organisations taking action to promote sustainable working lives.

More information:

Sixth European Working Conditions Survey: Data visualisation tool

EU-Osha: Good Practice Awards

EU-Osha: Healthy Workplaces for All Ages

Official webpage: World Day for Safety and Health at Work

Topics

Contacts

James Higgins

Press contact Communication Officer jhi@eurofound.europa.eu +353-1-204-3100

Måns Mårtensson

Press contact Media & Promotion Manager Media relations, marketing and promotion mma@eurofound.europa.eu +353-1-204 3124

Andrea Higuera

Press contact Andrea.Higuera@eurofound.europa.eu + 353 1 2043100

Related media

Construction workers
License: Creative Commons Attribution
With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work, provided they give you credit. You permit others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, as well as make derivative works based on it.
File format: .jpg
Size: 1920 x 1280, 343 KB

‘Working anytime, anywhere: The effects on the world of work’ - new report highlights opportunities and challenges of expanding telework

The expanding use of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers for work for home and elsewhere is rapidly transforming the traditional model of work. It can improve work-life balance, reduce commuting time, and boost productivity, but it can also potentially result in longer working hours, higher work intensity and work-home interference.

Find out what it is like to work in Europe: join the conversation on Twitter #6EWCS

17 November 2016 08:10

New survey shines spotlight on increasingly complex world of work

The overview report of the pan-European sixth European Working Conditions Survey #6EWCS is launched today 17 November 2016

23 March 2017 16:25

Latest working life developments at EU level

Developments in the field of employment and social affairs announced in the European Commission’s work programme for 2017 include initiatives to address the challenges of work–life balance faced by working families, a European Pillar of Social Rights aimed at fostering a fair playing field in the European social market economy, and a White Paper on the Future of Europe.

4 September 2017 11:52

EU-OSHA: Work-related accidents and injuries cost EU €476 billion a year according to new global estimates

New findings reveal that worldwide work-related injury and illness result in the loss of 3.9 % of GDP, at an annual cost of roughly €2 680 billion.

16 December 2016 11:32

Europe’s slow-burning issue – making work sustainable

Making work sustainable is not simply a challenge for politicians and policymakers in the European Union: it is a fundamental issue that underpins the future of the world of work in Europe. It goes beyond the mantra of raising employment rates and deals with productivity and innovation – and the everyday lives of workers throughout the EU.