European Agency Issues New Report Into New And Emerging Risks At Work

The European Agency For Safety And Health At Work (OSHA), has issued a report from it's European Risk Observatory which was set up to monitor risks in the workplaces of Europe. The new report is entitled Outlook and includes a separate document including Annexes to the main report. Both documents can be downloaded from the E-Library of this website.

Outlook, Issue 1, brings together present and future trends of relevance to occupational safety and health, and offers and overview of the work of the European Risk Observatory on new and emerging workplace risks and their prevention.

As the forward from Outlook explains:

"The occupational safety and health status of the EU workforce is affected by many factors, not least its changing demographic structure, the spread of new technologies and a reduction in the importance of economic sectors that previously dominated, such as industry and mining. This is bringing about changes not only in the numbers of jobs in each sector, but also the types of jobs that are available. The age profile of the workforce is changing.

New technologies are creating new categories of employment. Globalisation means that health threats that were once distant easily spread around the world in a short period of time. If the EU is to preserve the health of its workforce and maintain its economic strength and its competitiveness, it needs to meet these challenges proactively. This Outlook offers an overview of the present and future trends of relevance to occupational health, the main workplace risks and their prevention."

The document takes a look at such workplace issues as: work related stress, work related accidents, nano technologies, and exposure to ultra-violet radiation amongst others.

The full document includes chapters on the above issues and also an Annexe in the form of a second document providing extended and detailed reports on the new and emerging risks in the workplace. It also looks at areas such as age, gender, hearing impairment, and even occupational structure and pandemics.

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Source: OSHA

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