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16/03/2010.
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The ETUI has been involved in the drafting of the latest issue of the French publication Le Concours Médical, devoted to occupational cancers. This magazine, which has a circulation of 40,000, is widely read by French doctors.
The issue looks at the problem of social health inequalities associated with cancer. Laurent Vogel gives a snapshot of the situation at European level.
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The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the European Chemical Workers’ Federation (EMCEF) have joined forces to help push an information campaign towards firms that market chemicals. The campaign run by the European Commission and European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) aims to call European firms’ attention, especially SMEs, to their obligations under the REACH and CLP Regulations on chemicals.
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The ETUI Health and Safety Department’s fifth seminar on chemicals and worker protection took place in Helsinki on 28 and 29 January. Forty-odd union experts from 21 countries took stock of the implementation of the REACH Regulation, the risks of working with nanomaterials, the new Classification and Labelling Regulation, and the revision of the Carcinogens Directive.
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26/02/2010.
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18/02/2010.
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01/02/2010.
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The European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) rejected, on 18 January, the European Commission's deregulation proposals in the field of health and safety at work.
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29/01/2010.
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How could standardisation improve health and safety conditions for workers working with machines or employed in sectors such as services and nanotechnologies ? This was the question debated by experts from the Spanish trade union movement and the Spanish National Standards Organization on December 11-12, 2009 in Madrid. This ETUI project aims at promoting future collaboration between these two major actors in the field of standardisation.
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26/01/2010.
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26/01/2010.
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25/01/2010.
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On the invitation of Japan's National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (JNIOSH), Tony Musu, a researcher at the European Trade Union Institute's (ETUI) health and safety department, was in Japan from 11 to 15 January to participate in seminars on chemical risks. The aim was to disseminate information on REACH, the new European legislation on chemical substances, and to discuss the expected benefits of the new law on the health of workers exposed to hazardous substances.
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21/01/2010.
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19/01/2010.
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12/01/2010.
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07/01/2010.
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The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) has just launched HesaMag, a new magazine devoted to occupational health and safety. This twice-yearly publication will replace the Newsletter HESA.
" HesaMag aims to show that occupational health is not just a matter for the specialists, it is equally a question of everyday life and a major political issue", explains Laurent Vogel, the director of the ETUI’s Health and Safety department.
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