News/Highlight tagged with "Carcinogens"
Under the Belgian presidency of Council of the European Union , the Roadmap’s closing event is taking place on 12‐13 June at the Residence Palace in Brussels. During this experts’ meeting, the state of play on carcinogens at work and the Roadmap’s achievements...
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In light of the European Week Against Cancer , taking place from May 25 to May 31, EU-OSHA is publishing complementary research materials that contribute to the fight against occupational cancer.
The EU 2023 report , which focuses on how the EU have tackled the issues that concern Europeans most across last year, has been released. The Building a fair and social Europe chapter of the report refers to key occupational safety and health (OSH) steps...
The Nordic Institute for Advanced Training in Occupational Health (NIVA) is launching a training course for researchers, practitioners and OSH specialists working within the field of cancer and work: Retaining and Reintegrating Workers with Cancer , 14-16 May...
To help in the fight against occupational cancer, EU-OSHA conducted a Workers’ Exposure Survey on cancer risk factors (WES) in Europe. The goal is to better identify the risk factors at workplaces that can lead to the disease, providing current and comprehensive data that can be used for prevention, awareness-raising and policy-making. Thousands of workers in six EU Member...
New estimates of the burden of non-melanoma skin cancer — attributable to occupational exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation — have just been released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The new data is...