Friday, October 13, 2006
[IWS] [EUROPEAN] RISK OBSERVATORY [for Occupational Safety & Health]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
[EUROPEAN] RISK OBSERVATORY [for Occupational Safety & Health]
http://riskobservatory.osha.eu.int/index_html/introduction
Home page at -
http://riskobservatory.osha.eu.int/
The Risk Observatory aims at providing:
* an overview of health at work in Europe,
* a description of the trends and underlying factors,
* a description of the risk factors,
* an anticipation of changes in work and their likely consequences on health.
By doing so the Observatory intends in particular to draw attention on new and emerging risks and enable to set up preventive action.
These monitoring and forecasting activities are based, as far as possible, on the collection, analysis and consolidation of existing hard data from national and international data sources (see description in <http://riskobservatory.osha.eu.int/introduction/osm/> MONITORING SYSTEMS ) such as:
* Labour Force surveys,
* Workers surveys,
* Accident registers,
* Registers on occupational diseases,
* Death registers,
* Exposure registers.
Beyond the collation of hard data, the Observatory also provides more qualitative information to support the identification of new and < http://riskobservatory.osha.eu.int/introduction/risks/index.php> EMERGING RISKS. This information is mainly based on expert forecast and research reviews but can extend to other sources such as information collected by control bodies.
The Agency is responsible for the management of the Observatory and the consolidation of the data. External contractors and a EU wide network of national institutes that contribute to the collection and to the analysis of the data support the Agency in its mission.
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
[EUROPEAN] RISK OBSERVATORY [for Occupational Safety & Health]
http://riskobservatory.osha.eu.int/index_html/introduction
Home page at -
http://riskobservatory.osha.eu.int/
The Risk Observatory aims at providing:
* an overview of health at work in Europe,
* a description of the trends and underlying factors,
* a description of the risk factors,
* an anticipation of changes in work and their likely consequences on health.
By doing so the Observatory intends in particular to draw attention on new and emerging risks and enable to set up preventive action.
These monitoring and forecasting activities are based, as far as possible, on the collection, analysis and consolidation of existing hard data from national and international data sources (see description in <http://riskobservatory.osha.eu.int/introduction/osm/> MONITORING SYSTEMS ) such as:
* Labour Force surveys,
* Workers surveys,
* Accident registers,
* Registers on occupational diseases,
* Death registers,
* Exposure registers.
Beyond the collation of hard data, the Observatory also provides more qualitative information to support the identification of new and < http://riskobservatory.osha.eu.int/introduction/risks/index.php> EMERGING RISKS. This information is mainly based on expert forecast and research reviews but can extend to other sources such as information collected by control bodies.
The Agency is responsible for the management of the Observatory and the consolidation of the data. External contractors and a EU wide network of national institutes that contribute to the collection and to the analysis of the data support the Agency in its mission.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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