The promotion of health and safety at work, and the promotion of more and better jobs are important goals in the European Union. To achieve these goals, assessment and monitoring is necessary. This paper presents an overview of the results of the European Union Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2007 ad hoc module on accidents at work and work-related health problems of workers aged 15 - 64 years in the EU-27. The main goal of the study was:
“To perform a sophisticated statistical analysis, including descriptive and multivariate analysis, of the Health and Safety at Work data provided by the LFS 2007 ad hoc module, in order to compare the occurrence of accidents at work, work-related diseases and harmful exposures according to various parameters describing the characteristics of the worker, workplace and employment situation.”
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