Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work!

An estimated 1⃣.4⃣4⃣ million #employees succumbed to #work-related #diseases and #accidents in 2021.
#Trends are stagnating or rising slightly📈. This is not in line with the UN #SDG to “promote #safe and #secure #working #environments for all workers”⛔.

Data: #GBDstudy 2024
https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results?params=gbd-api-2021-permalink/5abb4337666642de3e1743432123b6bf
#GlobalHealth #GlobalGoals #2030Agenda #SDGs #SDG8 #SafeDay #safeday25 #28April #IWMD2025 #occupational #SafetyAtWork #OccupationalHealth #safeWork @WHO

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View and download updated estimates of the world’s health for 371 diseases and injuries and 88 risk factors from 1990 to 2021 in this interactive tool.

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📡 New episode of #EESCflash with EESC member @jamorenod @EESC_SOC

👉 We need to fight #PrecariousWork as it may trigger mental diseases

▶️ We need to take care of workers' #MentalHealth

🇪🇺 The EU must establish a new legal framework to deal with #PsychosocialRisks

#SafeDay

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EESC_PRESS/status/1651847118875705345

EESC PRESS (@EESC_PRESS)

📡 New episode of #EESCflash with EESC member @jamorenod @EESC_SOC 👉 We need to fight #PrecariousWork as it may trigger mental diseases ▶️ We need to take care of workers' #MentalHealth 🇪🇺 The EU must establish a new legal framework to deal with #PsychosocialRisks #SafeDay

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Today is World Day for Safety and Health at work!

👩🏽‍⚕️ We have published a new guidance for the safe management of hazardous medicinal products at work to protect workers and reduce their exposure.

More ↓ #SafeDay

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Social/status/1651861970960756736

EU Social 🇪🇺 (@EU_Social)

Today is World Day for Safety and Health at work! 👩🏽‍⚕️ We have published a new guidance for the safe management of hazardous medicinal products at work to protect workers and reduce their exposure. More ↓ #SafeDay

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Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work. 👷‍♂️👩‍🏭

🇪🇺 EU countries are working in the Council on new rules to limit exposure to #asbestos at work.

What's the impact of asbestos on workers' health & why is it important to act now? ⤵️

#SafeDay #OSH

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1651845858940297216

EU Council (@EUCouncil)

Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work. 👷‍♂️👩‍🏭 🇪🇺 EU countries are working in the Council on new rules to limit exposure to #asbestos at work. What's the impact of asbestos on workers' health & why is it important to act now? ⤵️ #SafeDay #OSH

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RT @ilo: The impact of violence and harassment in the workplace is devastating.

This World Day for Safety and Health at Work, learn how ratifying ILO Convention 190 can be a step towards creating a safe and healthy world of work. 🖋 #RatifyC190 #SafeDay https://t.co/0fQlL1dAyz

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_OSHA/status/1651972932795498502

International Labour Organization on Twitter

“The impact of violence and harassment in the workplace is devastating. This World Day for Safety and Health at Work, learn how ratifying ILO Convention 190 can be a step towards creating a safe and healthy world of work. 🖋 #RatifyC190 #SafeDay”

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⚠️Safeguarding the health of workers handling hazardous medicinal products is a top priority.

🆕On today's #SafeDay explore a new 🇪🇺guidance with practical steps to minimize risks and ensure safe management in the workplace: https://osha.europa.eu/en/oshnews/how-can-we-protect-workers-health-and-wellbeing-when-dealing-hazardous-medicinal-products?pk_campaign=sm_
RT @EU_Social: Today is World Day for Safety and Health at work!

👩🏽‍⚕️ We have published a new guidan…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_OSHA/status/1651872494117060610

How can we protect workers' health and wellbeing when dealing with hazardous medicinal products? | Safety and health at work EU-OSHA

New guidance from the European Commission offers essential advice for both employers and workers on how to manage exposure to hazardous medicinal products (HMPs). HMPs may cause carcinogenic, mutagenic, or reprotoxic (CMR) effects in workers exposed to them. Therefore, it is crucial to have proper management practices in place.  Exposure can affect medical workers as well as cleaners and laundry workers, or waste workers, and the advice provided in the guide is tailored to the groups of workers potentially exposed.

Despite the EU-wide banning of #asbestos in 2005, we all continue to work and live in buildings that contain this material.

We want to achieve #asbestos-free workplaces in Europe.

Read @franssencindy's statement: https://epp.group/7evneu
#SafeDay

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1651904388959543296

End dark legacy of workers' exposure to asbestos

The EPP Group will today vote in favour of new measures to reduce asbestos in the workplace. “The time has come to rid ourselves of the dark legacy of workplace asbestos exposure once and for all. We must not cut corners when it comes to protecting t...

When people's lives are at stake, the EU response to tackling #asbestos at work must be a top priority.

We ensured:
📌Better protection for workers
📌A reasonable transposition period
📌Sufficient technical & financial support for SMEs to implement the new rules

#SafeDay

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1651859103805853699

EPP Group (@EPPGroup)

When people's lives are at stake, the EU response to tackling #asbestos at work must be a top priority. We ensured: 📌Better protection for workers 📌A reasonable transposition period 📌Sufficient technical & financial support for SMEs to implement the new rules #SafeDay

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RT @EESC_PRESS: 📡 New episode of #EESCflash with EESC member @jamorenod @EESC_SOC

👉 We need to fight #PrecariousWork as it may trigger mental diseases

▶️ We need to take care of workers' #MentalHealth

🇪🇺 The EU must establish a new legal framework to deal with #PsychosocialRisks

#SafeDay https://t.co/sxIi7Iiffa

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1651883907149619203

EESC PRESS on Twitter

“📡 New episode of #EESCflash with EESC member @jamorenod @EESC_SOC 👉 We need to fight #PrecariousWork as it may trigger mental diseases ▶️ We need to take care of workers' #MentalHealth 🇪🇺 The EU must establish a new legal framework to deal with #PsychosocialRisks #SafeDay”

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United Nations: Every #workplace must have a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual #harassment & all forms of #violence, including verbal & physical #abuse.
Friday is #WorldDayforSafety&HealthatWork. 👉🏼https://www.un.org/en/observances/work-safety-day via @UN_Women #SafeDay
World Day for Safety and Health at Work | United Nations

The World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an annual international campaign to promote safe, healthy and decent work.

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