The
Health and Safety Department of the European Trade Union Institute
- Research, Education, Health and Safety ( ETUI-REHS)
aims at promoting high standards of health and safety at the workplace
throughout Europe. It succeeds the former European Trade Union Technical
Bureau for Health and Safety (TUTB), founded in 1989 by the European
Trade Union Confederation.
The Health and Safety Department monitors the framing, national
incorporation and implementation of European legislation in the
field of occupational health and safety.
It has set up an Observatory on the application of the European
directives to carry out comparative research into the impact
of Community legislation on prevention systems in EU countries,
and work out common trade union responses.
The Health and Safety Department provides resources of expertise
to trade union members of the Advisory Committee on Safety, Hygiene
and Health Protection at Work, which meets in Luxembourg, and the
Bilbao-based .
It conducts research into such fields as risk assessment, prevention
systems, musculo-skeletal disorders, gender dimensionand health
at work, ergonomics, mental workload and occupational stress.
It runs networks of experts on technical
standardisation (ergonomics, safety of machinery) and hazardous
substances (classification, risk assessment, setting occupational
exposure limits). The Health and Safety Department is an associate
member of the (CEN).
The Health and Safety Department works in co-operation
with the two other departments of the ETUI-REHS
involved in industrial relations and education.
| The ETUI-REHS
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5 Bd du Roi Albert II
B-1210 Brussels
Tel. : +32-(0)2-224 05 60
Fax : +32-(0)2-224 05 61
hesa@etui-rehs.org |
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