icoh 2015 - eu osh strategies and national examples
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Safety and health at work is everyone’s concern. It’s good for you. It’s good for business.
EU OSH strategies and national examplesDr Christa Sedlatschek
Director2 June 2015
31st International Congress on Occupational Health (ICOH) Seoul
Policy Development Session on OSH in Asian Countries
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Outline of the presentation
1. Some health and safety challenges
2. EU OSH Strategies
• EU Strategic Framework on OSH 2014-2020
• EU-OSHA Multiannual Strategic Programme 2014-2020
• National OSH Strategies
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Some health and safety challenges
Economic and demographic change
Micro and small enterprises
New and emerging risks
28 different OSH systems
Work related diseases (psychosocial risks, MSDs, cancer, etc.)
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OSH in the EU
• 85% of workers satisfied with the health and safety situation in their workplace (EB 2014), thanks to the comprehensive legislation and policy actions implemented by EU, Member States and social partners.
• However: − > 4 000 workers die of accidents at work and > 3 million workers
are victims of a serious accident at work.− 160 000 deaths annually are attributed to work-related diseases,
95 000 of which to occupational cancer. − Costs due to work-related sick leave, work-related diseases and
accidents are unacceptably high and put a heavy burden on competitiveness and social security budgets in addition to workers’ health.
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Health: The big challenge
• More than 150,000 work-associated deaths annually
(accidents + ill-health)
• 90% of those deaths are from disease rather than
accidents
Source: ILO
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ESENER-2 – Risk factors present in the establishment (% establishments, EU-28).
Base: all establishments in the EU-28.
Note: psychosocial risk factors shaded in orange.
Discrimination, for example due to gender, age or ethnicity
Job insecurity
Long or irregular working hours
Heat, cold or draught
Chemical or biological substances
Risk of accidents with vehicles in the course of work
Risk of accidents with machines or hand tools
Tiring or painful positions, including sitting for long periods
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
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ESENER-2 - Reasons why workplace risk assessments are not carried out regularly, by establishment size (% establishments, EU-28).
5-9 10-49 50-249 250+0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
The hazards and risks are already known There are no major problems
The necessary expertise is lacking The procedure is too burdensome
Base: establishments in the EU-28 that do not carry out risk assessments regularly.
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ESENER-2 - Major reasons for addressing health and safety (% establishments, EU-28).
Base: all establishments in the EU-28.
0
20
40
60
80
100
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ESENER-2 - Major difficulties in addressing health and safety (% establishments, EU-28).
Base: all establishments in the EU-28.
5-9 10-49 50-249 250+0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
The complexity of legal obligations The paperwork
A lack of time or staff A lack of money
A lack of awareness among staff A lack of expertise or specialist support
A lack of awareness among management
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ESENER-2 - Difficulties in addressing health and safety, by country: the complexity of legal obligations (% establishments, EU-28).
Base: all establishments in the EU-28.
Lithuania
Slovenia
Latvia
Finland
Denmark
Estonia
Malta
Sweden
Romania
Hungary
Slovakia
United Kingdom
Bulgaria
Luxembourg
Spain
Ireland
Czech Republic
Austria
Cyprus
Croatia
Germany
EU-28
Poland
Portugal
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Greece
Italy
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Major difficulty Minor difficulty Not a difficulty No answer
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EU Strategic Framework
Two key components:
1. A comprehensive body of EU legislation covering the most significant occupational risks and providing common definitions, structures and rules.
2. Multiannual action programmes since 1978, followed by European strategies (2002-06 and 2007-12), to identify priorities and objectives, provide a framework for coordinating national policies and promote a culture of prevention.
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EU Strategic Framework 2014 - 2020
Challenges identified are MSEs, work-related diseases, and
demographic change
Objectives focus on structural issues not on themes
1. Consolidation of national strategies
2. Facilitate compliance, especially in MSEs
3. Better enforcement by Member States
4. Simplifying legislation
5. Ageing, new risks, occupational diseases
6. Improving statistical data collection
7. Better international coordination
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EU instruments
• Legislation
• EU funds
• Social dialogue
• Communication and information
• Synergies with other policy areas
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Implementation
• Framework for action, cooperation and exchange of good practice– implementation requires the active collaboration of national authorities and social partners
• Open debate and collaboration with key stakeholders (national authorities, social partners, EU institutions, specialised committees – ACSH, SLIC – the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work …)
• Review in 2016 in light of the results of the ex-post evaluation of the EU acquis, progress on its implementation, review of EU2020 strategy
• Monitoring, associating EU institutions and relevant stakeholders.
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EU-OSHA strategic approach
EU Strategic Framework
Multi-annual strategic programme
Identified priorities
Annual Management Plan
Specific projects
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• Anticipating change
• Facts and figures
• Tools for OSH management
• Raising awareness
• Networking knowledge
• Networking and Corporate communication
EU-OSHA Multi-annual Strategic Programme 2014-2020: priority areas
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Activities under the multi-annual programme
Anticipating change• Foresight methodology• Green jobs• Research priorities
Facts and figures• MSEs• Older workers• ESENER• Work related diseases• Benefits of OSH
OSH tools• OIRA• E-Tools
Raising awareness• Campaigning• NAPO
Networking knowledge• OSHWiki• Strategies
Networking• International networking
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Healthy Workplaces Campaigns
• Campaigning is a key part of our business
• Decentralised information Campaign in Member States, EFTA, and candidate and potential candidate countries to address an OSH issue
• Focus on a single theme
• Agency coordinates campaign activities
• Provides and distributes information materials in 25 languages • Provides support services to Focal Points to stimulate national activities • Recruits official European Campaign partners• Organises Good Practice Award competition and the Closing Event
• Focal Points promote the Campaign via the organisation of activities at national level
• Campaign partners relay activity in their organisations / networks
• Media partners are also actively involved in the promotion of the Campaign
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Key partners and resources
Campaign organised in more than 30 countries Supported by a network of partners
• National focal points, Social partners, Official campaign partners • Media partners • Enterprise Europe Network • EU institutions, organisations and associations
Resources Campaign Guide and Leaflet Good Practice Awards Flyer Online Campaign Toolkit E-Guide on “Managing stress at company level” www.healthy-workplaces.eu (in 25 languages) Reports (cost and benefit of OSH) EU-OSHA / Eurofound joint report ESENER secondary analysis reports Napo film
German OSH system – legislative framework
Source: SUGA 2012
Governmental OSH law
the Federal Government and the Länder (Bund & Länder)
OSH system in Germany
Accident insurance (autonomous) law
accident insurance institutions
Legislation
Bund and Länder: laws and decrees, authorisation of accident prevention
regulations
Legislation(only after demand assessment)
accident prevention regulations on the authority of Bund and Länder
Advice / surveillance
laws and decreesby Labour Inspectorates
Advice / surveillance
Accident prevention regulations by prevention services
Co-operation in the Joint German Occupational Safety and Health Strategy (GDA)
Directives of the EU, ILO
Conventions
EU Strategy2007 – 2012
SLIC Evaluation
2005
ILO Convention
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Workplace and
Workforce Changes
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Joint German OSH Stragey - approach
• Binding cooperation of the three institutional OSH actors
• Concentration of prevention activities on areas of main concern
• Coordination of the prevention and inspection services of the
statutory accident insurance funds and the federal states
• Cooperation with social partners and other relevant actors, e.g.
health insurance funds
Joint German OSH Strategy – core elements
Joint German OSH Strategy
Development of joint OSH objectives
Evaluation of objectives, joint fields of action and work programs
Improvement of the cooperation and coordination of the actions of the public OSH authorities and accident insurance funds
Establish-ment of a transparent, reasonable und user-friendly set of provisions and regulations
Elaboration of joint fields of action and work programs and their implemen-tation according to uniform principles
Joint objectives and work programs 2008 - 2012
• Three OSH objectives - eleven work programs
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Objectives Work programs
Reduction in the frequency and severity of occupational accidents*
• Construction works• Temporary workers• Driving and transporting safely
Reduction in the frequency and severity of musculoskeletal workloads and disorders*
• Nursing and care • Office work• Precision engineering• Food industry• HORECA• Public urban transport
Reduction in the frequency and severity of skin diseases
• Skin
*) including reduction of psychosocial risks and the promotion of a systematic and integrative approach towards OSH in the enterprises
Improvement in the organisation of company occupational safety and
health (ORGA)
Reduction in work-related health hazards and musculoskeletal
disorders (MSD)
Protection and strengthening of health in the case of work-related
mental load (PSYCH)
Working program 2013 - 2018
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Strategies serve as a political instrument
• An effective approach• All players in the OSH field are
involved and contribute• Evaluations to measure
progress
Strategy for Danish OSH efforts up to
2020 Based on knowledge about
Labour market trendsAn analysis on health and safety issuesMethods and tools
Dialogue with the social partners Dialogue with the Danish Parliament
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OSH efforts to 2020
The strategy contains 19 initiatives in 3 categories: Initiatives changing the inspection methods
Initiatives aimed at enhancing OSH at enterprises
Initiatives on research, monitoring OSH and evaluation
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