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30/07/2010
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26/07/2010
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22/07/2010
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22/07/2010
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20/07/2010.
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On 30 June 2010, the European Trade Union and Employers' organisations from the building sector strongly criticized in a joint statement the proposals of an expert group sponsored by the Commission to simplify the European legislation.
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A public hearing on the Future of European Standardisation took place in Brussels on Wednesday 23 June 2010 at which ETUI senior researcher Stefano Boy was invited to comment on the role of standardisation in promoting higher standards of health and safety in the workplace.
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01/07/2010.
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23/06/2010.
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The ETUI Health and Safety Department is developing its work on nanotechnologies and nanomaterials towards standardisation. The International Organisation for Standardisation’s (ISO) Technical Committee 229 on ‘Nanotechnologies’ held its 10th meeting in Maastricht (Netherlands) from 17 to 21 May.
The ETUI was present in the working group on Terminology and Nomenclature.
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18/06/2010.
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08/06/2010.
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07/06/2010.
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04/06/2010.
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02/06/2010.
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01/06/2010.
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31/05/2010.
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31/05/2010.
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The EU’s Dublin-based European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions does a large-scale survey of European workers at five-yearly intervals. The last survey, done in 2005, quizzed around 30,000 workers in 29 countries about their working conditions.
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26/05/2010.
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17/05/2010.
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17/05/2010.
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17/05/2010.
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06/05/2010.
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The pension systems reform already implemented in various member states of the European Union will probably force millions of European workers to continue to work well beyond the age of 60. What will be the consequences of extending retirement age on the health of future retirees? The question was discussed in a study published in April 2010 by the CGT.
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The European Trade Union Institute took part in the 5th Awareness-Raising Workshop for Developing and Transition Countries on Nanotechnology and Manufactured Nanomaterials for the Arab world. The workshop took place in Alexandria (Egypt) from 11-13 April 2010.
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30/04/2010.
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27/04/2010.
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20/04/2010.
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16/04/2010
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15/04/2010
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15/04/2010
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15/04/2010
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14/04/2010.
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14/04/2010
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The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) published a report on the European Commission’s "better regulation" programme in late March. The Commission is promising that scrapping or revising a number of directives will save businesses around 40 billion euros by reducing the "administrative formalities" they impose. In Better Regulation: a critical assessment, Laurent Vogel (ETUI) and Eric Van den Abeele (University of Mons) reveal the agenda within the agenda.
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02/04/2010.
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The European Commission adopted an Action Plan on 22 October 2009 intended to reduce businesses’ information obligations. Among the measures proposed under this plan, which is part of the ‘Better regulation’ campaign, is an exemption for certain small businesses from the obligation to draw up a risk assessment.
The Centrale générale de la FGTB, which represents workers within this Belgian trade union confederation, has roundly condemned this proposal.
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01/04/2010.
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Occupational health is in trouble. It is suffering from a range of ailments: a shortage of doctors, a scarcity of resources and training, the devaluation of the job, the transformation of doctors into "advisors" working for employers, the commodification of the sector, etc. On 21 and 22 March, the ETUI and the Dutch trade union confederation FNV held a meeting in Amsterdam bringing together a dozen trade union experts and company doctors. They put their heads together to try and make a diagnosis and prescribed a treatment plan.
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31/03/2010.
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31/03/2010.
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31/03/2010.
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On 12 March 2010, the European Trade Union Institute took part in an international workshop in Kingston (Jamaica) on nanotechnology and manufactured materials in developing and transitional countries. Its aim was to gain knowledge about the risks related to the manufacturing and use of nanomaterials.
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24/03/2010.
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The communication on the revision of the working time directive, adopted by the College of Commissioners on 24 March 2010 launches the first phase of consultation of the European social partners at cross-industry and sectoral level. The European Commission thinks that certain aspects regarding the organization of working time of Directive 2003/88 have to be reviewed, but "a key issue to address is the scope of any such review."
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24/03/2010.
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24/03/2010.
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23/03/2010.
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22/03/2010.
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Construction unions worldwide are to undertake national, local and workplace level activities worldwide this year, to mark International Workers' Memorial Day. The global union federation for the sector, BWI, says it is going to build on the success of previous years, when tens of thousands of construction union members in over 100 countries participated. Ten years ago BWI adopted the slogan 'Strong unions = safe jobs', which is echoed in this year's global theme for the 28 April event, 'Unions make work safer.'
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22/03/2010.
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22/03/2010.
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22/03/2010.
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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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25/02/2010.
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25/02/2010.
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24/02/2010.
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23/02/2010.
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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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26/01/2010.
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25/01/2010.
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25/01/2010.
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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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