90.000 occupational disease cases will be avoided in Europe, saving 3.5 billion euros over 10 years for the EU-25. These are the mind-boggling figures to come out of this ETUC report. The study on how REACH will benefit workers' health was done by researchers from the University of Sheffield... Find out more

Publication date: 1998This book follows on from 1994 study on how preventive provision was organised in the European Union of 12 Member States. The author applies the same analytical approach to Austria, Finland and Sweden as well as to Switzerland and Norway. Because the national situations... Find out more

Publication date: 2000The EU's so-called "New Approach" Directives, which harmonise safety rules for a range of industrial goods, play up the role of private players on the market: manufacturers, standards bodies, certification bodies.Ian Fraser's report focusses on the role of that other crucial... Find out more

The Commission's new health and safety at work strategy 2002-2006 gives notice of Community initiatives on MSD. Although it is still vague as to exactly what shape they will take, the announcement sets the seal on trade unions' long-standing efforts to put MSD at the centre of the European debate... Find out more

Publication date: 2003The EU's Machinery Directive has now been in force for ten years, but we still know little enough about how it is being applied in Member States' own systems. The ETUI Health and Safety department saw a pressing need to look in detail at how it was being implemented and draw... Find out more