NEWSLETTER FROM THE EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK |
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Friday, 14 December 2007 00:00 |
Business benefits of good occupational safety and health Whether your enterprise is a small or a large company, implementing an efficient OSH management can enhance your productivity. Managing risk is a key element of OSH. If you prevent and control risks effectively many of the business benefits will follow. How a good OSH policy can strengthen your economic performance? New biological threats in European working environment Several thousand fatalities in the EU are due to work-related infectious diseases and many biological risks remain poorly assessed at workplace level. Read the new report on emerging biological risks that are most likely to affect EU workers. • Read the press release on new biological threats • Read the expert forecast on emerging biological risks EU conference on new Community Strategy: Improving safety and health at work Leading policy makers together with key EU and national stakeholders met in Portugal on 6 November 2007 to discuss how best to achieve the objectives set out in the new ‘Community Strategy for Health and Safety at Work, 2007-2012’. The new five-year scheme aims at cutting work-related accidents by a quarter across the EU and to move forward the positive trends of the previous programme.
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