Jump in fatalities of Latino workers, Reports new AFL-CIO death on the job study
	05/05/2008.

	HSE told to increase inspections
	29/04/2008.

	Gov't raises safety questions about chemical in plastics
	29/04/2008.

	The French government tackles MSD
	23/04/2008.

	Fatal occupational accidents continue to decline in Spain and Italy
	18/04/2008.

	ILO Convention No. 187 on occupational safety and health to come into force following ratification by the Republic of Korea
	16/04/2008.

	Hairdressers could face increased risk of cancer: Study
	08/04/2008.

	EU parliament urged to tackle chemicals' link to breast cancer
	04/04/2008.

	PSA Peugeot-Citroen: Manual and women workers hyperstressed at work
	01/04/2008.

	Australia: Five-star staff in safe-work fight
	17/03/2008.

	The French government is going to launch a comprehensive survey on work-related stress
	13/03/2008.

	Occupational diseases: More French workers seek psychiatric help
	12/03/2008.

	Germany: Report on the current state of occupational health and safety
	12/03/2008.

	Portugal: Impact of working conditions and work-related accidents on wages
	11/03/2008.

	Scientists issue safety warning on cosmetic nanomaterials
	11/03/2008.

	Trade union survey of working conditions in Italian metal industry
	10/03/2008.

	Nurses 'suffering frequent attacks'
	10/03/2008.

	A French chemical company could be sued by victims of occupational cancer
	10/03/2008.

	Asbestos case: A French company gets maximum sentence
	07/03/2008.

	International RSI Awareness Day
	29/02/2008.

	EP backs postponement of Electromagnetic Fields Directive
	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.

	EU wants code of conduct for nanotech research
	27/02/2008.

	Industrial accidents in Italy: An alarming situation in a time of political crisis
	26/02/2008.

	'Asbestos - the hidden killer': HSE campaign
	26/02/2008.

	Study: Night light raises cancer risk
	25/02/2008.

	Temp workers face greater injury risks (Report)
	22/02/2008.

	Canadian Labour Congress delays call for ban on asbestos mining
	21/02/2008.

	MSDs: A Canadian trade union calls the governments to take the issue of Repetitive Strain Injury more seriously
	20/02/2008.

	EU wants partial ban of toxic paint removers
	19/02/2008.

	BWI President demands that asbestos be on the agenda of all governments
	18/02/2008.

	USA: Newspaper exposes poultry industry horrors
	18/02/2008.

	Belgium: initial findings of a health and safety committee survey
	13/02/2008.

	The Bilbao Agency: More and more people face psychosocial risks at work
	08/02/2008.

	Ireland: 2008 work programme of the Health and Safety Authority (HSA)
	06/02/2008.

	France: occupational injuries decline in the building sector, but not occupational diseases
	06/02/2008.

	Manual workers more likely to be jobless or economically inactive at 50
	05/02/2008.

	French survey finds HSW training linked to workers' representation
	05/02/2008.

	A Belgian trade union criticizes MEPs refusal to include crystalline silica in the revised directive on carcinogens
	06/02/2008.

	REACH, exposure limits and nanotechnologies on the agenda of a seminar on protecting workers from chemicals
	Thirty-odd European trade unionists, researchers and European Commission representatives attended a seminar on protecting workers from chemical hazards in Amsterdam on 21 and 22 January. The seminar was called by the ETUI-REHS Health and Safety Department to take forward the trade union debate on REACH implementation, the development of a new international classification and labelling system, and the setting of occupational exposure limit values for carcinogens.

	Stress at work is linked to heart disease
	28/01/2008

	Many of Europe’s migrant workers face poor safety and health conditions
	28/01/2008

	Chemical exposures cost California an estimated $2.6 billion, finds new policy report
	23/01/2008.

	Difficulties persist in trying to convince 'medical experts' that asbestos is harmful to the health
	17/01/2008.

	EP calls for measures to reduce occupational diseases
	16/01/2008.

	A trade union checklist in the United Kingdom: How gender sensitive is health and safety management in your workplace?
	15/01/2008.

	Safety reps help to improve the quality of prevention policies
	10/01/2008.

	A dangerous fleet
	08/01/2008.

	ETUI-REHS input to WHO report on social inequalities in health
	For the past two years, the ETUI-REHS Health and Safety Department has been involved in the work of an international network of experts looking at how working conditions play into social inequalities in health. A draft report was submitted to the WHO at the beginning of November. Laurent Vogel contributed to the report’s contents through the insights he gave into trade union action on social inequalities in health.

Last updated: 5/05/2008