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- BEST No. 1/2000. Shiftwork and Health BEST No. 1/2000. Shiftwork and Health
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Shiftwork and other forms of working at unusual hours, and especially working at night, have always raised some health concerns. Shiftworkers, their employers, and governments responsible for health and safety legislation, are rightly interested in some serious questions about shiftwork and health:
• does shiftwork damage health?
• in what health areas does it carry this risk?
• are the short-term and long-term effects different?
• can occupational doctors and nurses monitor and reduce these effects?
• can shiftworkers themselves reduce these effects?
This issue of BEST aims to provide help and guidance in this complex area.
- Improving the Quality of Work for Women in the Homecare, Residential and Cleaning Sectors: Overview
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NACEW is committed to examining and providing advice on precarious employment issues affecting women. NACEW has identified government contracting as one area where there may be potential for the government as funder to influence improvements in the quality of work for women currently in precarious working situations or low paid work in the homecare, residential and cleaning sectors. Given NACEW’s longstanding interest in pay and employment equity, it sought to consider what might support these outcomes. The project examined how the government’s contracting/funding processes could be used to improve precarious employment with a view to providing recommendations to the Minister of Labour. Two research reports on the New Zealand context and international interventions were the result of this project along with a summary report and recommendations to the Minister of Labour.
- Women hurt at work
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This hazards factsheet presents information on the hazards that women face at the workplace that may result in injury.
- Work's Worse for Women
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This article presents information on high risks women face from job-related stress, musculoskeletal injuries, violence and other hazards. They note these risks will increase when women move in to jobs traditionally done my men, like construction, and presents some ways to deal with these.
- Feminist vision for a just Europe. A report of the WIDE Annual Conference 2008
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Increasingly finance-led development, growing inequality and deepening ecological crisis makes itcritical that European women working in development ensure that Europe contributes responsibly to the creation of a new, just and peaceful world order. The WIDE Annual Conference reflected on what role feminists and networks such as WIDE need to play in this process. The focus was on existing European policies for decent work and living conditions for women worldwide in a context of globalisation, feminisation and informalisation of labour, migration and changing aid structures.
- Key feminist concerns regarding core labor standards, decent work and corporate social responsibility
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This paper aims to discuss the gendered nature of labor standards and core labor standards, decent work, as well as voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR), to highlight the implications for women workers in developing countries. Part 1 deals mainly with the definitions and general discussions around these issues, while Part 2 focuses on its gender implications. The paper is mainly a study of the available literature within academia as well as relevant official documents and material from non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
- NL - Own-account workers and working conditions
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In this advisory report, the Social and Economic Council (SER) addresses the question of how to ensure that “self-employed persons with no staff” (i.e. own-account workers) can operate under the same working conditions as employed persons. The Council concludes that more provisions of the health and safety regulations should apply to them.
- Summary - New risks and trends in the safety and health of women at work
- In 2009 and 2010, the Agency commissioned an update to its previous research on gender issues at work , which found that inequality both inside and outside the workplace can have an effect on the health and safety of women at work. This summary provides a policy perspective and is meant to contribute to the task outlined by the European strategy on health and safety at work for EU-OSHA’s European Risk Observatory, “examining the specific challenges in terms of health and safety posed by the more extensive integration of women in the labour market”. It provides a statistical overview of the trends in employment and working conditions, hazard exposure and work-related accidents and health problems for women at work. It explores selected issues (combined exposures, occupational cancer, access to rehabilitation, women and informal work, and “emerging” female professions such as home care and domestic work). The research highlights the type of work carried out by women, issues faced by younger and older women, the growth of the service sector, violence and harassment, and increasingly diversified working time patterns as major risk factors.
- EU-OSHA launches landmark project to facilitate risk assessment in Europe’s small enterprises
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The Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) project marks the first initiative at EU level to facilitate workplace risk assessment. Developed EU-OSHA, the innovative tool will help Europe’s 20 million micro and small enterprises to improve safety and health for their workers by assessing risks through an easy-to-use and cost-free web application.
More information on the OiRA project dedicated website: http://www.oiraproject.eu/about
- Foresight of New and Emerging Risks to Occupational Safety and Health Associated with New Technologies in Green Jobs by 2020 - PHASE II – KEY TECHNOLOGIES
- The report of Phase 2 of the “Foresight of new and emerging risks associated with new technologies in green jobs by 2020” identifies a shortlist of key technologies likely to be found in green jobs and have an impact on OSH by 2020. The list includes green technologies in the construction, transport, manufacturing, waste treatment and wind energy sectors; nanotechnologies; bioenergy and biotechnology; electricity transmission and storage; and domestic applications of emerging energy technologies. In Phase 3, a series of workshops is exploring the potential emerging OSH risks from these technologies in order to develop future scenarios helping decision makers to anticipate these risks.
- The increasing use of portable computing and communication devices and its impact on the health of EU workers
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Portable computing and communication devices (portable IT) such as portable digital assistants PDAs, laptop computers, smart phones, tablet personal computers are widely used by workers in different occupations and their use is increasing.
This report highlights possible effects of frequent use of portable computing and communication devices on health and safety of workers: both physical and psychological health effects due to portable IT use are covered. Furthermore, the report tries to characterise current and future patterns of portable IT use (types of work, working patterns, working environments, categories of workers, disruption to personal life).
The report also includes options for management and legislation to try and compensate for the possible negative health effects of the use of portable computing and communication devices.
- Workplace violence and harassment on the increase in Europe
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Third party violence and harassment affect from 5% to 20% of European workers according to EU-OSHA’s new report ‘Workplace Violence and Harassment: a European Picture’. In many European countries there is still not enough recognition of workplace violence, with few specific initiatives dealing with the issue.
Full report ‘Workplace Violence and Harassment: a European Picture’ (English)
Visit our section on Stress
- Workplace Violence and Harassment: a European Picture
- The report presents the prevalence of violence and harassment at work based on international and national statistics, as well as the results of scientific studies on antecedents and consequences of work-related violence. A survey of the Agency's Focal Point network suggest that there is still an insufficient level of awareness and recognition of problems with third-party violence and harassment in many EU Member States, and there is a clear need to promote and disseminate good practice and prevention measures which are sensitive to the national context. Some measures proposed by EU, ILO, WHO and national experts are included in the report.
- Data Protection Day - 28 January 2011
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On 28 January 2011, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and its Member States will celebrate Data Protection Day for the fifth time.
- Work-related stress - one of the biggest OSH challenges in Europe
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Stress is the second most frequently reported work-related health problem, affecting 22% of workers from the EU 27. Studies suggest that stress is a factor in between 50% and 60% of all lost working days. This represents a huge cost in terms of both human distress and impaired economic performance.
Read the new report on work-related stress based on international and national statistics.
- A review of methods used across Europe to estimate work-related accidents and illnesses among the self-employed
- The overall proportion of self-employed workers is stable in Europe, however there has been a marked growth over recent years in the number of self-employed working in the services and construction sectors. The level of self-employment in high risk sectors such as agriculture and construction means that the capturing of accurate OSH data for this group becomes ever more important. Currently, such information is available at European level from surveys of workers, such as Eurofound’s European working conditions survey (EWCS) and the LFS (2007 ad-hoc module on accidents at work and work-related health problems) and from accident registers (ESAW). Although national differences in definitions, reporting rates and systems render comparative data analysis difficult, there is scope for improving the quality of monitoring of OSH for self-employed through the sharing of knowledge about current practices across Europe. This report describes monitoring systems currently in use and highlights any recent initiatives designed to improve the monitoring of OSH with respect to self-employed in ten selected Member States (Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands and Poland).
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an endowed charity that funds a large, UK-wide research and development programme. They seek to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice. - Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect, enforce and promote equality across the seven "protected" grounds - age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
- Oxfam
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To have the biggest possible impact on the lives of poor people worldwide, Oxfam concentrates on three interlinked areas of work:
Emergency response
People need help in an emergency – fast. We save lives, swiftly delivering aid, support and protection; and we help communities develop the capacity to cope with future crises.
Development work
Poor people can take control, solve their own problems, and rely on themselves – with the right support. We fund long-term work to fight poverty in thousands of communities worldwide.
Campaigning for change
Poverty isn’t just about lack of resources. In a wealthy world it’s about bad decisions made by powerful people. Oxfam campaigns hard, putting pressure on leaders for real lasting change.
- EU-Portable computing and communication devices and their impact on workers’ health
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Portable computing and communication devices are widely used by workers in different occupations and their use is steadily increasing
Also in this section
- BEST No. 1/2000. Shiftwork and Health BEST No. 1/2000. Shiftwork and Health
-
Shiftwork and other forms of working at unusual hours, and especially working at night, have always raised some health concerns. Shiftworkers, their employers, and governments responsible for health and safety legislation, are rightly interested in some serious questions about shiftwork and health:
• does shiftwork damage health?
• in what health areas does it carry this risk?
• are the short-term and long-term effects different?
• can occupational doctors and nurses monitor and reduce these effects?
• can shiftworkers themselves reduce these effects?
This issue of BEST aims to provide help and guidance in this complex area.
- Improving the Quality of Work for Women in the Homecare, Residential and Cleaning Sectors: Overview
-
NACEW is committed to examining and providing advice on precarious employment issues affecting women. NACEW has identified government contracting as one area where there may be potential for the government as funder to influence improvements in the quality of work for women currently in precarious working situations or low paid work in the homecare, residential and cleaning sectors. Given NACEW’s longstanding interest in pay and employment equity, it sought to consider what might support these outcomes. The project examined how the government’s contracting/funding processes could be used to improve precarious employment with a view to providing recommendations to the Minister of Labour. Two research reports on the New Zealand context and international interventions were the result of this project along with a summary report and recommendations to the Minister of Labour.
- Women hurt at work
-
This hazards factsheet presents information on the hazards that women face at the workplace that may result in injury.
- Work's Worse for Women
-
This article presents information on high risks women face from job-related stress, musculoskeletal injuries, violence and other hazards. They note these risks will increase when women move in to jobs traditionally done my men, like construction, and presents some ways to deal with these.
- Feminist vision for a just Europe. A report of the WIDE Annual Conference 2008
-
Increasingly finance-led development, growing inequality and deepening ecological crisis makes itcritical that European women working in development ensure that Europe contributes responsibly to the creation of a new, just and peaceful world order. The WIDE Annual Conference reflected on what role feminists and networks such as WIDE need to play in this process. The focus was on existing European policies for decent work and living conditions for women worldwide in a context of globalisation, feminisation and informalisation of labour, migration and changing aid structures.
- Key feminist concerns regarding core labor standards, decent work and corporate social responsibility
-
This paper aims to discuss the gendered nature of labor standards and core labor standards, decent work, as well as voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR), to highlight the implications for women workers in developing countries. Part 1 deals mainly with the definitions and general discussions around these issues, while Part 2 focuses on its gender implications. The paper is mainly a study of the available literature within academia as well as relevant official documents and material from non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
- NL - Own-account workers and working conditions
-
In this advisory report, the Social and Economic Council (SER) addresses the question of how to ensure that “self-employed persons with no staff” (i.e. own-account workers) can operate under the same working conditions as employed persons. The Council concludes that more provisions of the health and safety regulations should apply to them.
- Summary - New risks and trends in the safety and health of women at work
- In 2009 and 2010, the Agency commissioned an update to its previous research on gender issues at work , which found that inequality both inside and outside the workplace can have an effect on the health and safety of women at work. This summary provides a policy perspective and is meant to contribute to the task outlined by the European strategy on health and safety at work for EU-OSHA’s European Risk Observatory, “examining the specific challenges in terms of health and safety posed by the more extensive integration of women in the labour market”. It provides a statistical overview of the trends in employment and working conditions, hazard exposure and work-related accidents and health problems for women at work. It explores selected issues (combined exposures, occupational cancer, access to rehabilitation, women and informal work, and “emerging” female professions such as home care and domestic work). The research highlights the type of work carried out by women, issues faced by younger and older women, the growth of the service sector, violence and harassment, and increasingly diversified working time patterns as major risk factors.
- EU-OSHA launches landmark project to facilitate risk assessment in Europe’s small enterprises
-
The Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) project marks the first initiative at EU level to facilitate workplace risk assessment. Developed EU-OSHA, the innovative tool will help Europe’s 20 million micro and small enterprises to improve safety and health for their workers by assessing risks through an easy-to-use and cost-free web application.
More information on the OiRA project dedicated website: http://www.oiraproject.eu/about
- Foresight of New and Emerging Risks to Occupational Safety and Health Associated with New Technologies in Green Jobs by 2020 - PHASE II – KEY TECHNOLOGIES
- The report of Phase 2 of the “Foresight of new and emerging risks associated with new technologies in green jobs by 2020” identifies a shortlist of key technologies likely to be found in green jobs and have an impact on OSH by 2020. The list includes green technologies in the construction, transport, manufacturing, waste treatment and wind energy sectors; nanotechnologies; bioenergy and biotechnology; electricity transmission and storage; and domestic applications of emerging energy technologies. In Phase 3, a series of workshops is exploring the potential emerging OSH risks from these technologies in order to develop future scenarios helping decision makers to anticipate these risks.
- The increasing use of portable computing and communication devices and its impact on the health of EU workers
-
Portable computing and communication devices (portable IT) such as portable digital assistants PDAs, laptop computers, smart phones, tablet personal computers are widely used by workers in different occupations and their use is increasing.
This report highlights possible effects of frequent use of portable computing and communication devices on health and safety of workers: both physical and psychological health effects due to portable IT use are covered. Furthermore, the report tries to characterise current and future patterns of portable IT use (types of work, working patterns, working environments, categories of workers, disruption to personal life).
The report also includes options for management and legislation to try and compensate for the possible negative health effects of the use of portable computing and communication devices.
- Workplace violence and harassment on the increase in Europe
-
Third party violence and harassment affect from 5% to 20% of European workers according to EU-OSHA’s new report ‘Workplace Violence and Harassment: a European Picture’. In many European countries there is still not enough recognition of workplace violence, with few specific initiatives dealing with the issue.
Full report ‘Workplace Violence and Harassment: a European Picture’ (English)
Visit our section on Stress
- Workplace Violence and Harassment: a European Picture
- The report presents the prevalence of violence and harassment at work based on international and national statistics, as well as the results of scientific studies on antecedents and consequences of work-related violence. A survey of the Agency's Focal Point network suggest that there is still an insufficient level of awareness and recognition of problems with third-party violence and harassment in many EU Member States, and there is a clear need to promote and disseminate good practice and prevention measures which are sensitive to the national context. Some measures proposed by EU, ILO, WHO and national experts are included in the report.
- Data Protection Day - 28 January 2011
-
On 28 January 2011, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and its Member States will celebrate Data Protection Day for the fifth time.
- Work-related stress - one of the biggest OSH challenges in Europe
-
Stress is the second most frequently reported work-related health problem, affecting 22% of workers from the EU 27. Studies suggest that stress is a factor in between 50% and 60% of all lost working days. This represents a huge cost in terms of both human distress and impaired economic performance.
Read the new report on work-related stress based on international and national statistics.
- A review of methods used across Europe to estimate work-related accidents and illnesses among the self-employed
- The overall proportion of self-employed workers is stable in Europe, however there has been a marked growth over recent years in the number of self-employed working in the services and construction sectors. The level of self-employment in high risk sectors such as agriculture and construction means that the capturing of accurate OSH data for this group becomes ever more important. Currently, such information is available at European level from surveys of workers, such as Eurofound’s European working conditions survey (EWCS) and the LFS (2007 ad-hoc module on accidents at work and work-related health problems) and from accident registers (ESAW). Although national differences in definitions, reporting rates and systems render comparative data analysis difficult, there is scope for improving the quality of monitoring of OSH for self-employed through the sharing of knowledge about current practices across Europe. This report describes monitoring systems currently in use and highlights any recent initiatives designed to improve the monitoring of OSH with respect to self-employed in ten selected Member States (Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands and Poland).
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
-
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an endowed charity that funds a large, UK-wide research and development programme. They seek to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice. - Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
-
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect, enforce and promote equality across the seven "protected" grounds - age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
- Oxfam
-
To have the biggest possible impact on the lives of poor people worldwide, Oxfam concentrates on three interlinked areas of work:
Emergency response
People need help in an emergency – fast. We save lives, swiftly delivering aid, support and protection; and we help communities develop the capacity to cope with future crises.
Development work
Poor people can take control, solve their own problems, and rely on themselves – with the right support. We fund long-term work to fight poverty in thousands of communities worldwide.
Campaigning for change
Poverty isn’t just about lack of resources. In a wealthy world it’s about bad decisions made by powerful people. Oxfam campaigns hard, putting pressure on leaders for real lasting change.
- EU-Portable computing and communication devices and their impact on workers’ health
-
Portable computing and communication devices are widely used by workers in different occupations and their use is steadily increasing
