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A study updating the compilation of OSH data, "Priorities and strategies in occupational safety and health policy in the member states of the European Union", published in 1997. Psychosocial, ergonomics and chemical risk factors were the top priority areas for future research. Other issues highlighted were safety precautions against noise, and electric and magnetic fields, and issues relating to small and medium sized enterprises.
Recoge: 1. Summary list of priorities. - 2. The scientific and policy contexts. - 3. Psychosocial work environment. - 4. Musculoskeletal disorders. - 5. Dangerous substances. - 6. OSH management. - 7. Additional references.
Injury, ill health and death are never intended consequences of work, but the available data documenting the continuing extent of work-related harm remind us that preventing these consequences remains a challenge. Despite huge advances in technology and health sciences, this challenge is still very much in evidence, even in the advanced market economies of the Member States of the European Union (EU). As is the case in all countries, workers continue to be injured, made ill or die as a consequence of their work. At the same time, it is widely accepted that such harm is largely preventable. Effective strategies to achieve such prevention remain elusive, making efforts to support compliance and achieve better practice an ongoing aim of national and EU policies. A further challenge for prevention strategies is that the circumstances in which work-related harm occurs are seldom static. In fact, a leitmotif of advanced economies nowadays is the speed of change in the structure and organisation of economic activity, and the technologies that support it. With this comes continuous change in the nature and distribution of work-related risks to safety and health. Policies, strategies and the actual measures to achieve effective prevention therefore also need to be responsive to these challenges. This report seeks to provide an overarching review of the literature concerning institutional support for these prevention strategies and measures and their role in improving occupational safety and health (OSH) in the context of the changing structure, organisation and control of work in the EU.
"Mainstreaming occupational safety and health (OSH) into the education of children and young people has an important part to play in developing and improving safety cultures in the workplace. This is recognised in European community strategy on occupational health and safety and in the OSH strategies of the member states. In particular, there has been increasing recognition that risk education should form part of the training for those entering manual vocational trades and there has been a great deal of activity to embed it into vocational courses and develop suitable, participative learning methods and resources."--Cover
The European Union is becoming increasingly involved in health policy. The Treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam require the EU to consider health issues in all that it does. Even though the Union has no direct involvement in the delivery of health services its range of responsibilities, including the ramifications for health of the Single European Market, make it a key player. This is the first major academic book solely devoted to EU health and health-related policy.