icoh 2015 - eu osh strategies and national examples

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

http://osha.europa.eu

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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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Demographic change: Age, gender, mobility


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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

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90

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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).


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ESENER-2 - Major difficulties in addressing health and safety (% establishments, EU-28).


5-9 10-49 50-249 250+0

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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).


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

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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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The EU-OSHA response


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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

http://www.healthy-workplaces.eu/

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

Danish OSH efforts 2012-2020

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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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