Up-to-date information on OSH in Germany and Europe
Safe maintenance is good business: 30 pan-European organisations join as Official Campaign Partners
Companies and associations from the private and public sector, including some of Europe’s well known companies, have joined forces with EU-OSHA in the new Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2010/11 on safe maintenance. Read the press release Check out our new campaign partners
Maintenance and OSH: a statistical picture
This new report shows the main hazards, risks, health problems and accidents that maintenance workers in Europe are exposed to and suggests appropriate prevention measures. 10-15% of all fatal workplace accidents are related to maintenance operations. EU-OSHA’s new campaign on Safe Maintenance raises awareness of the importance of proper maintenance work. Read the report (English) Factsheet (22 languages)
2009 Annual Report: spending on health and safety is an investment not a cost
EU-OSHA's 2009 Annual Report emphasises the long-term value of workplace health and safety in difficult economic times, and encourages employers to find alternatives to redundancy. Highlights of its work in 2009 include the ESENER survey, the Risk Assessment campaign and the European photo competition.
79% of European managers are concerned by work-related stress, but less than a third of companies have set procedures to deal with it
First findings from the ‘European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks’ (ESENER) provide an insight into how European companies are managing health and safety issues in practice – with a particular focus on psychosocial risks. The ESENER survey covered 31 countries and involved 36,000 interviews. Read the Press release Full ESENER report (English) ESENER Summary (available in 22 languages) View the results online with the interactive mapping tool (available in 22 languages)
