WorkingParty on Accident Prevention Films

Department of Preventive Health Care and Safety at Work | Health and Safety Department | Safety Unit | SPSS [Abbr.]

Ad hoc Group on Multidisciplinary Protective and Preventive Services | AHG Multidisciplinary Protective and Preventive Services

Canada-United States Trespass Prevention Task Force [ International Trespassing Prevention Task Force ]

Working Group on Preventive Measures and Services for the Elderly

social group work [ social groupwork ]

If question 2 is answered in the affirmative, can the fact that the job performed by the worker is included in the list of risk-free jobs drawn up by the employer after consulting the workers’ representatives and the fact that the preventive medicine/prevention of occupational risks department of the hospital concerned has issued a declaration that the worker is fit for work, without those documents including any further information regarding how those conclusions were reached, be considered to prove, in every case and without possibi ...[+++]lity of challenge, that there has been no breach of the principle of equal treatment within the meaning of Article 19 of Directive 2006/54/EC?

19. Stresses that, in order to enhance further social dialogue on the topic of psychosocial constraints at work in the European steel sector, special attention should be paid to the specific features of working conditions, to identifying sector-specific causes – such as, for example, the heavy nature of steel production work, the properties of the workforce (male, high age structure), environmental concerns, the proliferation of technological innovations and the substantial restructuring of the European steel industry – and to verifying the impact of these causes on the work floor, which can serve to improve sectorial exchange and reflection on prevention practices ...[+++]; stresses further that all key prevention players (be it at European, national or local level), including company management, occupational safety and health services, workers’ representatives, etc) can prevent psychosocial constraints at work on all prevention levels, meaning that they can continue to make improvements in terms of both health and performance, which are two sides of the same coin;

47. Points out that about 50% of workers in the EU still have no access to preventive services, especially as regards SMEs and subcontracting chains; highlights that most existing services are not fully multidisciplinary and many do not properly reflect the hierarchy of preventive measures laid down in the Framework Directive; believes that all workers, those in the public and also in the private sector, should be covered by risk-prevention arrangements as well as effective prevention policies, including accessibility arra ...[+++]ngements, training courses and workshops for workers, and special attention should be paid to the situation of vulnerable workers, including people having to take part in mandatory work activity schemes without previous training and necessary skills; also believes that the new forms of employment should be taken into account so as to ensure that prevention and monitoring measures cover all workers, in particular vulnerable workers, regardless of the type of work that they do and their employment arrangements; hopes that the target will be one safety advisor for every 3 000 employees;

O. whereas a six-year prison sentence, confirmed on appeal, has been imposed on the prominent Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi; whereas the sentence of one year’s imprisonment and 90 lashes was given to prominent actress Marzieh Vafamehr, following her involvement in a film depicting the difficult conditions in which artists operate in Iran; . whereas on 17 September 2011 the Iranian authorities detained six independent documentary filmmakers, Mohsen Shahrnazdar, Hadi Afarideh, Katayoun Shahabi, Naser Safarian, Shahnam Bazdar and Mojtaba Mir Tahmaseb, accusing them of working for the BBC’s Persian ...[+++]Service and engaging in espionage on behalf of that news service;