Health and safety at work

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Health and safety at work

• Social Dialog
• Brussels
• 12 -13 February 2008

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Content

• HS Related statistics available on webs
• European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
• Internationla Labour Organisation
• Cefic - Europe - Responsible Care
• Slovakia
• Legislation
• Questions

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Summary

• Seminar in Bratislava
• 17 October 2007

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European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

• every three and a half minutes, somebody in the
  European Union dies from work-related causes
• every year, 142,400 people in the EU die from
  occupational diseases and 8,900 from work-related
  accidents
• up to a third of these 150,000 fatalities each
  year can be attributed to hazardous substances at
  work in the EU, including 21,000 to asbestos.

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International Labour Organisation

• occupational injury
• any personal injury, disease or death resulting
  from an occupational accident an occupational
  injury is therefore distinct from an occupational
  disease, which is a disease contracted as a
  result of an exposure over a period of time to
  risk factors arising from work activity
• Table 8A - Cases of occupational injury with lost
  workdays, by economic activity
• Fatal cases cases where workers were fatally
  injured as a result of occupational accidents,
  and where death occurred within one year of the
  day of the accident.

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Comparison data from http//osha.europa.eu/statis
tics

• AgricultureThe fatal accident rate for the old
  EU 15 member States is 12.6 per 100 000 workers
  for accidents with more than three days absence,
  the rate is more than 6,000 per 100 000 workers.
  These are some of the highest rates for any
  industry. In the old Member States just 4 of the
  working population work in agriculture, but in
  the new Member States it is 13.4.
• ConstructionAround 1,300 workers are killed each
  year, equivalent to 13 employees out of every
  100,000 more than twice the average of other
  sectors.

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Slovakia

• Statistics on fatalities - whole economy
• Statistics related to sectors
• Responsible Care Companies

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Total Fatal injuries - SK
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Sector Fatalities in 2005
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Health and safety Responsible Care - SK

• Year 1997 1998 1999
  2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
  2005 2006
• Fatalities 3 2 0
  1 2 0 0
  0 2 1
• LTIR 6,4 6,8 2,5
  6,8 4,8 5,17 5,18
  4,41 5,46 5,92
• Occupational ilnesses
  8 14 14
  1 2 12

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Overview of EU legislation

• and example of harmonisation process in Slovakia

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European Union
Directives EC
Directives Council
mandatory
Social area
Health, safety at work
Has to be transformed to national legislation
Harmonizacion on tha basis of minimal requirements
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EU legal initiatives

• The Council Directive 89/391/EEC
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• individual directives

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Directive 89/391/ES
Act No. 330/2006 .
BOZP safety at work
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Act No 126/2006 Z.z.
Directive 89/391/ES
HEALTH
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Act No 82/2005 Z.z.
Smernica 92/85/EHS
Zákon c.311/2001 Z.z.
Labour Law Zákonník práce
Act No 121/2004 Z.z.
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• Other related legislation
• IPPC Directive
• Seveso Directives
• REACH Regulation

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Questions
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• Compensation for worse working conditions for
  workers
• Too bureaucratic burden, strict requirements
• Solution - New technologies

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COMPENSATIONS

• - ETUI-HEalth and SAfety
• Department
• - case study - Slovnaft

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Extra salary, benefits, bonuses, compensations,
premiums

• Difference between EU and New Countries approach

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Extra salary, benefits, bonuses, compensations,
premiums

• EU approach
• Generally the use of risk premium for hazardous
  working conditions is abolished
• Systems of so called  compensations  dont
  follow preventive approach of the Framework
  directive
• First of all, the risk assessment and the
  preventive measures must be introduced by each
  employer
• Each potential risks must be removed or reduced
  to acceptable level

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Extra salary, benefits, bonuses, compensations,
premiums

• New and Candidate Countries
• There still exist systems of compensations for
  work in dangerous conditions
• These systems are based on law or collective
  agreements
• Extra money
• Additional holiday and shorter working time
• Breaks
• Periodical health surveillance
• Special food or drinks