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3D printing is the buzzword in innovation and the creative industry. But what it is, exactly, remains unclear to the general public. Additive manufacturing, desktop producing, rapid prototyping, digital fabrication — there are different names for this…
In 2015, roughly three out of every five workers across the 28 Member States of the EU (EU-28) reported complaints related to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). This illustrates that MSDs remain the most common work-related health problem in the EU. MSDs…
Since the 1970s it has been recognised that the combination of information and communication technologies has the potential to enable the relocation of work. In the 1980s, attention focussed on ‘teleworking’, involving the relocation of work from a…
The use of drugs for non-medical reasons as cognitive enhancers is starting to spread and become normalised among students and certain groups of workers. In the context of increasingly competitive society and working environment the use of these…
Machines have been a part of human reality for a long time, however the Industrial Revolution marked a major breakthrough in the use of machinery and machines. At that time, their significance and importance was recognised generally, but people reacted…
The whole-school approach can be considered as the ‘Gold standard’ of mainstreaming OSH into education. Research conducted by the European Agency has come to the conclusion that approaches that cover various fields of action at schools are best suited…
Many organisations and companies take extensive proactive measures to identify, evaluate and reduce occupational risks. However, despite these efforts things still go wrong and unintended events occur. After a major incident or accident, conducting an…
The models used in accident investigation can typically be grouped into three types: sequential, epidemiological, and systemic models. Although the sequential and epidemiological models have contributed to the understanding of accidents; they are not…
Workplace transport is important to most businesses, whether it be a retail outlet, a farm or a large manufacturing plant, they all rely on workplace transport to move products, materials or people from one place to another. Workplace transport is the…
The Fisheries sector is a high-risk sector. The incidence rate (i.e. figures corresponding to the number of workers employed in the sector) of fatal accidents is 23.82 compared to the average incidence rate of 1.65. Only the Forestry and logging sector…