1. News from EU-OSHA Dr Christa Sedlatschek
5 December 2012 | Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work

2. European Risk Observatory area
Foresight & green jobs to be published Q1 2013
Final report + summary (6 lang) + presentation + press release, etc.
Follow up products to be published on Q on:
Wind energy (State of the art report)
OSH in green building construction: eFact + hazard identification checklist (HI)
OSH and small scale applications of solar energy: eFact + (HI)
Reprotoxic state of the art report to be published Q3-2013
Estimation of costs of non OSH at macro level to be published Q2 2013
Carcinogens workshop Berlin Sep/12
Seminar online summary to be published 4/Feb/2013 (World Cancer day)
OSH research priorities for
Seminar online summary to be published Q2 2013
REACH-CLP
Seminar on OSH and REACH held at ECHA 03/Oct/12
mini campaign launched 13/Nov/12

3. Working Information area
EU-OSHA member of interservice group (DG EMPL) for ex-post evaluation of EU Directives
Wellbeing at work to be promoted Q3-2013
Policy overview
Case studies
Literature review on employers‘ & workers’ motivation
Tobacco smoke mini campaign in cooperation with DG SANCO
Promoted in World NO Tobacco Day
Work-life balance eFact – published
Health promotion of young workers FS promoted 12/Aug/12
Mental health promotion FS promoted 10/Oct/12
Training teachers to deliver risk education published Aug/12
Report and Factsheet
OSH and nanomaterials eFacts to be published Q2 2013

4. Campaign 2012-13 working together for risk prevention
Good practice awards
50 entries from 29 countries – highest participation rate ever
Jury meeting in January 2013
Awards-Ceremony on 22 April 2013 in Dublin under the Irish EU-Presidency
Campaign partnership scheme
After second application round 80 campaign partners
Benchmarking workshop in May 2013 in Brussels
Closing Event
Provisional date November 2013

5. Campaign 2014-15 on managing psychosocial risks
Objectives
Promoting the positive effects of managing psychosocial risks, including the business case
Promoting existing tools and guidance, supporting the development of new tools
Content products in preparation ( )
Campaign toolkit for micro and small enterprises
recognising and preventing psychosocial risks
common concerns and misconceptions, simple definitions
Costs related to stress and psychosocial risks (a state of the art report)
Psychosocial risks in European workplaces. Organisational interventions. (EU-OSHA and EUROFOUND joint report)
OSH Wiki articles

6. ESENER-2 (preparation in 2013, fieldwork in 2014)
Increased policy relevance
Covering additional topics: MSDs, OSH performance, OSH actors at the workplace, extent of the administrative burden, as well as previous topics: OSH management, psychosocial risks and worker involvement
Including micro and SME: those employing 5 or more workers
Extending to cover agriculture, forestry and fishing sector
More countries: up to 35, possibly including Iceland, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia
More accurate data
New target respondent: to reduce refusals, avoid confusion over roles and gain space for more ‘content’ questions
Fieldwork improvements: increased sample sizes, greater ‘quality’ requirements on the contractor
Improve the quality of the questionnaire: more rigorous translation procedure and more extensive testing and piloting

7. Advice and consultation
ESENER-2
Approximate schedule
2012 November: Initiate procurement
2013 April: Survey preparation
2014 April: Fieldwork period starts
July: Fieldwork period ends
September: Delivery of final dataset
2015 June: Overview report published
Advice and consultation
PRAG involvement
Kept up to date with progress
Consulted at key points during the preparation phase.
Main issues: changes to the survey methodology and on the questionnaires
Expert consultation
Researchers who have worked closely with ESENER
Experts in charge of comparable national level surveys

8. EP pilot project on OSH of older workers
Overview of the situation
Key issues, OSH approaches, workplace practices and needs for managing OSH of older workers, available tools…
Review of OSH strategies
OSH programmes/activities, on older workers in member states
Review of rehabilitation strategies
Programmes/actions, etc. regarding older workers in MS
Assessment of OSH programmes and actions in practice
Views of intermediaries & workplaces involved in programmes and actions
Workplace-level views on OSH tools and support
Perceived usefulness of a range of tools and assistance
Meeting in the European Parliament
Half-day to update EP towards mid-point of project
Final report and policy recommendations
Provide the Commission with an assessment of possible EU-level actions
Stakeholder conference

9. Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) tool
OiRA Partners – Public Authorities
BE, BG, CZ, CY, EL, ES, LV, LT, SI, SK, PT, RO & PT
Collaboration national authorities having developed similar tools to OiRA: INSHT – Spain, HSA- Ireland, HSE – UK
OiRA Partners – EU Social Partners
Leather & Tanning, Private Security, Live Performance and Hairdressing
OiRA Partners – OSH Institutes
INRS (FR), SWEA (SE), FIOH (FI) and ELINYAE (EL)
First OiRA tools published
Hairdressing (CY), Working in offices (CY), Road transport (FR) and Leather & Tanning (EU)
Tools under development
Car Repair (CY, LT), Hairdressing (BE, CY, CZ), Butchers (EU), Private Security (EL), Working in offices (SI) and Generic (SI)
Hairdressing (EU, PT, EL), Live performance (EU), 30 sectoral OiRA tools planned (EU), Bakeries (BG), Woodworking workshops (EL), Commercial shops (EL) and Catering sector (EL)

10. Other projects and activities
OSHwiki
Finalisation of content, develop community of ‘approved’ authors
‘Soft’ launch at HWC Closing Event in November 2013
Major launch at World Congress in August 2014
Tool to raise awareness and motivate SMEs to take action on psychosocial risks
Development of support material in the context of the HWC 2016/17
Multi-lingual ‘portable application’ developed for SMEs
OSH reviews
Emerging risks in the healthcare sector, including home and community care
Organisational interventions to tackle stress (joint project with Eurofound)
Case studies on the business case for OSH at enterprise level
Workshops and seminars
Economic costs of poor OSH at the macro level
Research priorities
Reprotoxic substances