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Changes at the head of ETUI-REHS
Laurent Vogel, who has been in charge of research for some fifteen years at ETUI-REHS, has recently been appointed director of the Health and Safety Department. Since the beginning of April, he has replaced Marc Sapir, who had been head of the Trade Union Technical Bureau for Health and Safety (TUTB), which is now the ETUI-REHS Health and Safety Department, since 1989. The remainder of Marc’s time until he retires in June 2009 will be spent as an expert.
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The EU’s 2004 Directive on the exposure of workers to electromagnetic fields will not come into force as it was meant to this April. On 19 February, the European Parliament responded to medical community protests by adopting MEP Jan Andersson’s (PES) report to put off the deadline for Member States to carry the Directive into law until 2012. The ETUC argues that this decision will be bad for the roll-out of shopfloor prevention in the sectors concerned. |
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The European Commission unveiled its strategy on health and safety at work for 2007-2012 in February 2007. Since then, the ETUI-REHS has repeatedly voiced doubts about the document’s policy thrusts and priorities. This issue details the main reasons why we have pilloried the strategy: no reference to REACH, no concern to tackle work-related diseases, worker participation completely ignored, and turning the labour/HSW inspectorate into a business consultancy.
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The REACH regulation has been in effect since last June. To help get it better known, the ETUI-REHS Health and Safety Department has just published the full English version with annexes (barring annex XVII). The 132-page book is published in an easy-to-carry softback format. |
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