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2007
MEPs want Community HSW strategy to focus on work-related diseases
 
20/12/2007.
USA : The erosion of employment-based insurance
 
20/12/2007.
Full refurbishment for the ETUI-REHS Documentation Centre
 
19/12/2007.
France: Le Monde surveys employer-controlled occupational health services
 
13/12/2007.
Report on gender and working conditions in the EU
 
11/12/2007.
Shiftwork linked to cancer
 
10/12/2007.
Report on new biological threats in European working environment
 
06/12/2007.
Harassment at work: MEPs discuss extent of problem
 
29/11/2007.
Cleaners’ working conditions: Trade unions tell Commission to put its house in order
 
27/11/2007
Canada: Asbestos exports on the increase
 
26/11/2007.
EP fleshes out rules for public health and health and safety at work statistics
 
19/11/2007.
French workers from the meat sector believe their health condition has deteriorated
 
13/11/2007.
Quebec asbestos mining town 'severely contaminated'
 
13/11/2007.
France: A study has proven the link between asbestos victims and environmental exposure
 
08/11/2007.
Ensuring social protection for posted workers: The Belgian and Polish Labour Inspectorate departments sign an agreement
 
08/11/2007.
IUF calls for urgent global action on toxic food flavouring ingredient diacetyl
 
07/11/2007.
UK: 2.2 million people suffered in 2006-2007 from work-related illnesses
 
05/11/2007.
Commission seeks to delay Directive protecting workers against electromagnetic fields
 
On 26 October, the Commission asked the Council to put back the deadline set for Member States to transpose the Electromagnetic Fields Directive by 4 years. The Commission claims the delay is needed because bringing the Directive into force would interfere with the use of technologies like magnetic resonance imaging. "This is an unprecedented move by the Commission. Never before has the entry into force of a Health and Safety at Work Directive been put back", hit out Marc Sapir, the ETUI-REHS Director.
Commission to postpone and amend electromagnetic fields legislation to protect MRI
 
30/10/2007.
New TUC website to support Polish workers
 
30/10/2007.
France: call to act on work-related cancers
 
29/10/2007.
MSDs: European comparative study published by the Dublin Foundation
 
23/10/2007.
NGOs announce shadow REACH 'blacklist'
 
23/10/2007.
Women in the workplace: New ILO report highlights how action in the world of work can help reduce maternal deaths
 
23/10/2007.
Mr. Geert Dancet as ECHA Executive Director
 
18/10/2007.
Action plan for stimulation and implementation of Spanish health and safety strateg y (2007-2012)
 
15/10/2007.
Swedish unions bring machinery operators into standards development
 
Direct participation by workers and their reps in standardisation technical committees and working groups is essential to feed experience from practice into design. In a breakthrough development, a former variable reach truck driver and trade unionist from the Swedish Union of Service and Communication Employees (SEKO), has been brought into the CEN Technical Committee on "Safety of industrial trucks" (CEN/TC 150) which met in Stockholm on 27 September.
Finland: Changes in work and working conditions between 1997 and 2006
 
15/10/2007.
Italy: New legislative provisions concerning occupational health and safety
 
15/10/2007.
Publication of an inventory of systems for the collection of data on working conditions
 
14/10/2007.
ETUC - On the offensive against MSDs
 
"More than one in three European workers across all sectors suffers from musculoskeletal disorders. We want to launch a mass trade union offensive focused on work organisation to stem these rapidly-spreading work-related illnesses”, proclaimed John Monks, ETUC General Secretary, opening the joint conference hosted by the ETUC and its research and training institute, ETUI-REHS, on 9 and 10 October in Brussels.
U.S. Senate votes to ban asbestos imports and use
 
05/10/2007.
A Belgian study showed that stress at work and depression were interrelated.
 
03/10/2007.
ILO/WHO: Outline for the Development of National Programmes for Elimination of Asbestos-Related Diseases
 
03/10/2007.
France: A regional study indicates how social factors have an impact on health conditions and life expectancy
 
28/09/2007.
A trade union survey showed that everyone works under stress at Peugeot Mulhouse
 
28/09/2007.
France: Occupational diseases 'severely under-estimated'
 
28/09/2007.
USA: new bill to protect workers from a chemical used in the popcorn industry
 
28/09/2007.
Ombudsman steps up pressure on Commission to deal with complaint concerning working time directive
 
18/09/2007.
ETUI-REHS launches survey on Belgian workers' representation in HSW
 
18/09/2007.
Steel giant and unions commit to innovative health and safety program
 
17/09/2007.
Birth defects on the rise in polluted China
 
17/09/2007.
In Belgium, the seriousness of accidents among student workers is on the increase
 
10/09/2007.
USA: Popcorn brands ban diacytel
 
10/09/2007.
Danish EPA reports support the case against lifting the ban on deca-BDE
 
05/09/2007.
TUC study reveals systematic exploitation of migrant workers
 
04/09/2007.
Nanotech needs strong oversight says coalition
 
09/08/2007.
Examination of Eternit asbestos victim cases completed in Turin
 
06/08/2007.
Nurses, cleaners at increased risk for asthma
 
03/08/2007.
Finland: SAK proposes stricter penalties for occupational safety crimes
 
31/07/2007.
Alcan's Quebec factories blamed for lung cancer cases in ex-workers
 
31/07/2007.
China: E-waste processing, a source of pollution
 
28/07/2007.
UK: Rise in the workplace fatalities linked to HSE cuts
 
27/07/2007.
Japan becomes first country to ratify ILO Convention No. 187
 
26/07/2007.
EU court bans Syngenta's paraquat weedkiller
 
16/07/2007.
Canadian Cancer Society pursues elimination of asbestos-related diseases
 
13/07/2007.
Costa Rica: Chiquita sacks workers for reporting poisoning
 
10/07/2007
Farmworkers badly at risk from pesticides
 
10/07/2007
Italy: McDonald's fires safety campaigner
 
10/07/2007
Is the 1989 framework directive under threat?, wonders the HESA Newsletter
 
4/07/2007.
Bulgaria: Rise in child labour raises concern
 
03/07/2007.
Safety and migrant workers: A practical guide for safety representatives
 
29/06/2007.
EC announces proposal to align chemicals classification, labelling and packaging to UN standards
 
27/06/2007.
Report slams official complacency on UK work cancer epidemic
 
27/06/2007.
Netherlands: Manual lifting of loads over 23 kg outlawed
 
26/06/2007.
Parliament votes to ban EU mercury trade
 
22/06/2007.
New WHO publication on stress at work in developed countries
 
21/06/2007.
Peugeot-Citroën: CGT denounces guilt-inducing letters sent to workers on sick leave
 
21/06/2007.
ETUC fears for recent ECJ judgement on workers’ health and safety
 
14/06/2007.
New study links pesticides to Parkinson's
 
13/06/2007.
UK: Banana firm 'exploits migrants'
 
13/06/2007.
June 12th: World Day Against Child Labour
 
June 12, 2007
Europe: Migrants get worse jobs (Dublin Foundation)
 
08/06/2007.
Over 600 million worldwide work excessive hours-ILO
 
07/06/2007.
EU launches campaign to tackle MSD
 
06/06/2007.
Spain: violations made public
 
07/06/2007.
Rare blood cancer hits 9/11 responders
 
04/06/2007.
REACH EU chemical law comes into force
 
04/06/2007.
Denmark: Rise in psychosocial demands at work
 
04/06/2007.
WHO urges ban on smoking at work; tobacco blamed for 10% of preventable deaths
 
04/06/2007.
Labour inspectors against occupational cancers
 
29/05/2007.
The WHO adopts 10-Year action plan for workers’ health
 
23/05/2007.
Social developments in the EU 2006: Workplace health and safety hijacked by competitive interests?
 
15/05/2007.
Greece: Problems in the implementation of the H&S legislation
 
14/05/2007.
Report warns of widening workplace discrimination
 
11/05/2007.
Chemical manufacturer found liable for kidney cancers in French workers
 
02/05/2007.
28 April: The ETUC calls for stepped-up labour inspections and substitutes for carcinogens
 
27/04/2007.
New HESA publication on musculoskeletal disorders
 
27/04/2007.
Unions say don't work with killer chemicals
 
27/04/2007
2.2 million deaths in the workplace… most of which are avoidable
 
27/04/2007.
Harassment and violence at the workplace: The social partners sign a framework agreement
 
26/04/2007.
The hellish flower industries in Kenya and Colombia
 
26/04/2007.
Working near chlorine pools tied to lung problems
 
13/04/2007.
28 April: Call for the the WHO ‘Global Plan of Action on Worker’s Health’
 
12/04/2007.
Nanoscience: More research and transparency wanted
 
30/03/2007.
Denmark: Union study finds high occupational cancer levels in building workers
 
30/03/2007.
Ireland: Survey highlights workplace bullying
 
30/03/2007.
28 April 2007: World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Find it online
 
30/03/2007.
Belgium condemned by the ECJ for failing to transpose the Directive on worker's consultation
 
30/03/2007.
Canada: New regulations allow asbestos in toys
 
29/03/2007.
Titanium Dioxide classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans
 
27/03/2007.
The impact of REACH on New Member States
 
26/03/2007.
CMR: Employees are not sufficiently protected in French industries
 
14/03/2007.
European Strategy on Health and Safety: The Commission misses its target
 
28/02/2007.
USA: Construction workers endure high rates of death, injury
 
27/02/2007
European Working Conditions Survey: The full report has just been released
 
23/02/2007.
Health and safety at work: The community strategy needs a new impetus, says the ETUC
 
As the European Commission puts forward its 'New strategy on health and safety at work 2007-2012', the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) stresses the need for a new momentum to European policy in this area.
EU aims for 25% cut in accidents at work by 2012
 
21/02/2007.
Andean unions force pace towards asbestos ban
 
08/02/2007
Belgium: A Compensation Fund is to be created for the victims of asbestos-related diseases
 
06/02/2007.
France: Non-nuclear industry lags in protecting workers from radiation
 
29/01/2007.
Temporary work is bad for you
 
23/01/2007.
2 million work-related deaths annually
 
23/01/2007.
Nanotechnology: Potential toxic effects of carbon-based nanomaterials
 
23/01/2007.
Comparative study on health conditions of the European employees depending on the type of work organisation
 
22/01/2007.
Experts ask EU for total ban on mercury
 
18/01/2007.
France: CFDT seeks to reopen debate on fatiguing work
 
16/01/2007.
EU: Call for proposals: research aimed at assessing the economic dimension of occupational health and safety
 
15/01/2007.
France: First survey of chemicals toxic to workers' health
 
12/01/2007.
France: Manual workers’ conditions going downhill
 
12/01/2007.
Lithuania: The 60-hour workweek?
 
12/01/2007.
ETUI-REHS launches survey on labour inspection in Europe
 
09/01/2007.
 
2006
Scientist played down work cancer risks
 
22/12/2006.
HESA Newsletter probes contingent work risks to young workers’ health
 
“Young workers. Health at Risk!” The special report in the December HESA Newsletter is anything but alarmist. Right across Europe, youth and contingent working forms a lethal combination. The younger you are, the likelier you are to be injured in a work accident. The under-25s also make up most of the “in-work poor”.
EU: New employment and social programme aims for PROGRESS
 
18/12/2006.
UK: Migrant workers facing exploitation and danger
 
18/12/2006.
European Parliament adopts REACH: completing an important step forward
 
The European Parliament has set the seal on seven years’ debate by adopting the draft reform of EU legislation on the trade in chemicals. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) welcomes the REACH regulation’s progress on the management of chemical risks in Europe, but condemns the chemical industry lobbying’s to rein in the reform.
Parliament adopts REACH - new EU chemicals legislation and new chemicals agency
 
13/12/2006.
Canada: Workplace deaths spiking, study finds
 
13/12/2006.
Belgium: Union claims suspiciously high cancer count in chemical plant
 
11/12/2006.
Hard labour: French survey pinpoints supermarkets
 
6/12/2006.
France: Half of retired self-employed skilled workers reveal asbestos exposure
 
5/12/2006.
REACH compromise under fire
 
4/12/2006.
REACH: A decisive step, but inadequate in protecting workers’ health
 
1/12/2006.
REACH: Agreement between Parliament and Council
 
30/11/2006.
Sweden: Work makes a quarter of employees ill
 
27/11/2006.
New figures on workplace violence in the United States
 
24/11/2006.
Intensive use of computer mouse is harmful for health
 
23/11/2006.
United Arab Emirates: workers abused in construction boom
 
24/11/2006.
ILO advocates an ambitious programme to strengthen labour inspection worldwide
 
24/11/2006.
European working conditions survey: work makes 35% of workers sick
 
21/11/2006.
Spain: Major new law passed on building industry subcontracting
 
21/11/2006.
Firefighter cancer risk 'higher'
 
17/11/2006.
French court finds Michelin guilty of negligence in asbestos contamination
 
17/11/2006.
A silent pandemic: Industrial chemicals are impairing the brain development of children worldwide
 
14/11/2006.
Zimbabwe fighting asbestos ban
 
14/11/2006.
Major push to stop paraquat poison
 
13/11/2006.
Court action to follow EU working time deadlock
 
8/11/2006.
Working Time Directive: The ETUC regrets the missed opportunity of the Employment Council to move forward on Social Europe
 
8/11/2006.
Fourth European Working Conditions Survey: Working conditions in Europe – what workers say
 
7/11/2006.
The European Ombudsman calls on Commission to deal with complaint about working time directive
 
6/11/2006.
ETUC expresses profound concern about proposed compromise on the Working Time Directive
 
3/11/2006.
New ILO study says youth unemployment rising
 
30/10/2006.
Sweden: New right-wing government scraps National Institute for Working Life
 
25/10/2006.
UK: Migrant workers at risk (HSE report)
 
25/10/2006.
Study of cancer in IBM employees finally published
 
25/10/2006.
Retrospective mortality cohort study of Italian workers compensated for silicosis
 
25/10/2006.
Ageing 'linked to social status'
 
24/10/2006.
Asbestos kept off global list of toxic substance
 
23/10/2006.
Global demand for an end to Canada’s deadly asbestos role
 
11/10/2006.
Belgium: Law on aggravated risk
 
11/10/2006.
Switzerland: Eternit creates a foundation to compensate asbestos victims
 
11/10/2006.
REACH: ETUC calls on Council to go with EP on substitution principle
 
8/10/2006.
French protesters urge nationwide anti-asbestos lawsuit
 
October 4, 2006
Latvia: Long working hours and regular overtime
 
4/10/2006.
The impact on people’s health due to an explosion in a chemical plant in France in 2001
 
29/09/2006.
EU environment chief says Ivory Coast polluters should be punished
 
29/09/2006.
ILO's campaign to ratify instruments on OHS
 
27/09/2006.
Cancer linked to rotating shifts
 
26/09/2006.
Chemicals found in common European foods
 
26/09/2006.
A Belgian steel producer acquitted and not proved guilty of an accident
 
22/09/2006.
France : A report points out the shortcomings of the statistical system for occupational diseases and work accidents
 
22/09/2006.
Four video clips for better prevention of occupational cancer
 
14/09/2006.
Marketing of PPEs: New European guide
 
14/09/2006.
Working time: The UK guidelines infringe Community law (ECJ)
 
12/09/2006.
9/11: 70 percent of ground zero workers suffered lung problems
 
11/09/2006.
Quebec: Young workers more exposed to physical and organisational constraints
 
11/09/2006.
Commission takes Belgium to court for non-transposition of a Directive
 
11/09/2006.
Implementation of the Globally Harmonised Sys