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26/07/2011.
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The European Trade Union Institute’s (ETUI) Health and Safety at Work Department is to bring its research and expertise to bear on the huge area of working conditions. It’s a natural development for what started out as the Trade Union Technical Bureau (TUTB), turned into the ETUI Health and Safety Department in 2005, and has now become the Working Conditions, Health and Safety Department.
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19/07/2011.
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07/07/2011
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30/06/2011
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30/06/2011
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30/06/2011
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23/06/2011.
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20/06/2011.
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17/06/2011.
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14/06/2011.
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30/05/2011
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20/05/2011.
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12/05/2011.
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12/05/2011.
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On 12 April, Stefano Boy, researcher at the ETUI Health and Safety department, was invited to share with the European Parliament the trade unions’ recommendations on the proposal for a new regulatory framework governing agricultural and forestry vehicles. By contributing to this legislative proposal ETUI intends to help reduce accidents and injuries in one of the deadliest sectors of the European Union.
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19/04/2011.
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18/04/2011.
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11/04/2011.
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06/04/2011.
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05/04/2011.
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In health terms, we have been seeing for the past twenty years or so that the gulf between the well-off and the working classes has been growing. HesaMag, the ETUI’s occupational health magazine, is using its latest issue to spotlight how working conditions and the new ways of organising work impact on these health inequalities.
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On 14 March, the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee approved the Asbestos Bill. The bill is expected to pass through the rest of the legislative process without trouble and go into effect by August.
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23/03/2011.
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17/03/2011.
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16/03/2011.
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15/03/2011.
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The Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), Quebec’s second-largest organized labour group, has decided to reverse its long-standing position on asbestos. On 11 March, the CSN confederal council has affirmed the confederal workplace health and safety committee's recommendation that no new expansion projects in Quebec asbestos mines should be supported.
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28/02/2011.
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21/02/2011.
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21/02/2011.
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16/02/2011.
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14/02/2011.
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12/02/2011.
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Tony Musu represents the European Trade Union Confederation in ECHA, the Helsinki-based European Chemicals Agency in charge of implementing REACH. A few weeks after it closed, he looks back at how the first phase of chemicals registration went.
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The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF) is calling for a ban on sandblasting jeans, which it says can cause silicosis and even death.
Its General Secretary, Patrick Itschert, reports that 550 former jeans sandblasting workers have been diagnosed with silicosis in the Turkish textile industry since 2005, and 46 have died from it. Sandblasting is what gives jeans the faded look that is fashionable with young people.
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31/01/2011.
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31/01/2011.
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28/01/2011.
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On 1 December 2010, the Executive Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) adopted a second resolution on Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies.
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The first results of the fifth European Working Conditions Survey were presented on 16 and 17 November last by the Dublin-based European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound). 84% of EU-27 workers report that they are satisfied or even very satisfied with their working conditions. However, one quarter of European workers still feel that work is having an adverse effect on their health. Likewise, although 90% of European workers consider that they are well informed about the risks to their health and safety, 25% of them feel that their health and safety are threatened in the conduct of their work.
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The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has contributed to the consultation from the European Commission on a proposal for a definition of the term "nanomaterial" that the Commission intends to use as an overarching, broadly applicable reference term for any European Union communication or legislation addressing nanomaterials. That definition will therefore have to be adapted for each piece of legislation where it would be needed.
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