Preventive Services in Occupational Health and Safety in Europe: Developments and Trends in the 1990s

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Walters
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Preventive Services ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Northern European

This article outlines the legislative requirements for preventive services in health and safety in 13 European countries and considers the implementation and coverage of such services. The author identifies the predominant models of preventive services operating in the European Union, then assesses the influence of the E.U. Framework Directive 89/391 on the development and integration of preventive services and the role of workers in their organization and accountability. Significant differences exist in the extent and functions of preventive services in European countries, including differences in coverage between southern and northern European countries, different degrees to which employees in small enterprises and large enterprises are covered by preventive services, and overall differences in legislative approach.

scholarly journals Occupational health and safety management in “small size” enterprises, with particular emphasis on hazards identification

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-201
Author(s):  
Marta Niciejewska ◽  
Olga Kiriliuk
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe article presents the element of occupational health and safety management in enterprises, with particular emphasis on the identification of occupational hazards. The factors that may be a source of occupational hazards have been classified and divided. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of occupational hazards on work safety in the opinion of employees of micro and small enterprises. The research was carried out using the proprietary questionnaire. The results were verified by means of a direct interview with elements of observation. The research was compared with the trends prevailing in the enterprises of the European Union countries according to the results of the research conducted by EU-OSHA. Polish respondents considered physical and psychophysical factors to be the main occupational hazards. The results turned out to be very similar to those presented by EU-OSHA in its publicly available reports. The basic principle of occupational health and safety management, i.e. identification of occupational hazards, is reliability and correctness. Identification of occupational hazards gives the opportunity to take correct and effective corrective and preventive actions reducing occupational risk, for example through the effective use of personal protective equipment, or a more detailed treatment of both introductory and instructional training. The article also highlights the migration of individual occupational hazards, which depends on many factors, both professional and non-professional.

scholarly journals Participation in safety and health in European workplaces: Framing the capture of representation

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Walters ◽  
Emma Wadsworth
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Survey ◽  
Safety And Health

We discuss experience of worker representation in occupational health and safety in the European Union, using findings from a large qualitative study of practices in 143 establishments in seven Member States. This study was a follow-up to the second EU-OSHA European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks. We focus on the experience of the operation of the institutional forms of representation of workers in safety and health and draw attention to the extent to which statutory provisions largely conceived in pluralist industrial relations contexts are currently operationalized in more unitary ones. We discuss the consequences for the model of representation that previous studies have identified to be most effective.

scholarly journals Occupational health and safety specialist in Croatian and Portuguese legislation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 375-391
Author(s):  
Domagoj Šantek ◽  
Sandra Debeljak ◽  
Rui Isidoro
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Republic

The domain of occupational safety and health at work is put for regulation through directives by founding agreements. This means that the institutions of the European Union prescribe minimum standards of safety and health at work through directives and Member States need to accomplish goals that a particular directive pursues. At the same time, this means that each Member State can also set stricter standards than the ones prescribed through directives and for this reason some differences in regulations of individual Member States can be noticed. In this paper, authors focus on the role of occupational safety specialist and the manner in which the Republic of Croatia and the Portuguese Republic, in their legislation, prescribe obligations of the employer in terms of contracting the performance of occupational health and safety tasks with an occupational safety specialist or an external service. Authors furthermore examine required conditions which occupational safety specialist must meet to perform those tasks. Apart from outlining the Croatian and Portuguese legislation, authors also present and define fundamental similarities and differences in the regulations within this domain of security legislation.

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