HEALTHatWORK

An Inquiry into the Health and Safety at Work; a European Union Perspective

Coordination and Support Action (Supporting)

Project Coordinator: Professor Ioannis Theodossiou, University of Aberdeen, UK

Presenter: Dr. Joke Haafkens, Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam, NL

A project supported by the European Commission through the 7th Framework Programme "THEME [HEALTH-2007-4.2-3] " .

List of Partners I•University of Aberdeen, U.K. (Coordinator)•Université de Bourgogne, France •Baltic International Centre for Economic and Policy Studies, Latvia•Aarhus University, Denmark•HYDRAULIS, Greece•Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France•The Institute for Economic Analysis, Spain•University of Athens, Greece•University of Amsterdam, Netherlands•Welsh Economy and Labour Market Evaluation Research Centre, UK

List of Partners II•Ghent University, Belgium•Fundación LEIA - Centro de Desarrollo Tecnológico, Spain•Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute, Poland•University of Birmingham, U.K.•Center for Public Affairs Studies Foundation, Hungary•Università Cattolica, Italy.•Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain•The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Finland•Berlin Scholl of Economics, Germany

The project aims to review current knowledge and issues related to the economic impact of health at work.

This will be achieved through: •Co-ordinated reviews; •Development of common datasets regarding indicators of health and safety at work in the participant countries; •Associated GIS analysis capability;•A pilot study to evaluate how much employees and employers are wiling to invest in health and safety at work; (vignettes)•Policy recommendations aiming at improving the health and safety in the context of changing labour market environment and its repercussions in the competitiveness of European labour markets.

Expected Results IReview the of •current state of knowledge on health and safety at work in the participant EU countries and to identify gaps in knowledge;•current data (such as the national Labour Force Surveys (LFS) regarding the incidence of accidents, illnesses and absenteeism at work and early retirement due to occupational illness/accident and management practices for health and safety in the European Union;•indicators on health and safety at work ;•current knowledge/data related to gender and age related aspects of occupational health and safety at work;•management options for current state of affairs regarding health and safety at work;

Expected Results II•Hold workshops on assessment and management of health and safety at work;

•Explore the possibility of developing new health and safety at work indicators by using large scale available surveys (such as Labour Force Surveys (LFS);

•Use GIS to map and analyze health and safety at work indicators;

• Design a (common) protocol for the collection of (new) health and safety at work indicators for EU member states;

Expected Results III•Pilot a novel approach to eliciting values of both employers and employees regarding the health and safety at work;•Disseminate the information and results from various stages of the project through reports and publications;•Develop new research proposals to address perceived gaps in the information required for improving occupational health and safety indicators;•Propose appropriate protocols for collecting additional data (including proposing questions for the large scale surveys such as the LFS) that can contribute to the improvement of the accuracy of health and safety at work indicators;

More Information

WWW.ABDN.AC.UK/HAW/

Prof. Ioannis Theodossiou: theod@abdn.ac.uk

Dr. Joke Haafkens: J.A.Haafkens@uva.nl