Advanced robotics and artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems for the automation of tasks (both physical and cognitive) have entered sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare and education. • Implications of these systems for occupational safety and health (OSH) are physical, ...
Work and workplaces are constantly changing, which may lead to new occupational safety and health (OSH) risks and challenges and new dilemmas. Through its foresight projects, EU-OSHA aims to anticipate these changes — technological, environmental, societal, political and economic...
The main general goal of this study is to provide relevant information to understand occupational health and safety (OSH) management practices among European workplaces in the transportation and storage sector. Other key goals of this study include the identification of the main ...
In the spring of 2022, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) commissioned a Flash Eurobarometer survey (OSH Pulse survey 2022). Over 27,000 employed workers were interviewed on the phone across all EU Member States, plus Iceland and Norway. The aim was to ga...
Frontex is committed to providing a work environment that is free from harassment, where all people are treated with respect and dignity. This guide will help you identify issues and guide you through the available options to find the best solution. Part of your role as a manager...
Part of your role as a manager is to cultivate a working environment in which harassment is unlikely to occur. All individuals working under your responsibility have the right to be treated with respect and dignity. This means that anyone working for Frontex, including the statut...
Digital platform work is increasingly common across Europe and beyond. - This type of work can represent an opportunity for some groups of workers to enter employment or to have increased flexibility. - Occupational safety and health (OSH) risks associated with tasks carried out ...
The rise in telework and more flexible working patterns, speeded up by the pandemic, has intensified concerns about an ‘always on’ culture and employees’ constant connection to their workplace, leading them to work additional and often unpaid hours. One of the solutions put forwa...
While the rapid digitalisation of workplaces has created many new opportunities for efficiency and productivity, it has also brought new challenges to occupational safety and health (OSH). These risks need to be properly assessed and managed to ensure that workers in Europe can c...