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"This article provides an overview of the results of a survey on the quality of social dialogue in the implementation of occupational health and safety law in the Republic of Croatia. The survey was carried out within the EU project Occupational Health and Safety - an Opportunity and a Challenge in Social Dialogue together with the Independent Trade Union of Food and Beverage Manufacturers from Kutjevo as project leader. The effective realisation of occupational health and safety objectives requires properly-conducted social dialogue on all issues related to the health and safety of workers as well as an understanding of the role and obligations of employees' elected safety reps, authorised OHS officers, OHS specialists and shop stewards. The results of the survey point to the conclusion that additional activities directed at education and awareness must be implemented in order to contribute to strengthening and improving the social dialogue. Consequently, a set of programme guidelines have been proposed in this direction, applying to trade union federations and confederations at all levels."

"Diagnosis of occupational diseases is an interdisciplinary process that requires special knowledge of medicine and other areas related to health and safety at work. So too is their diagnosis and treatment the responsibility of occupational health specialists. The recognition of occupational diseases in Croatia is regulated by the Law on the List of Occupational Diseases, while diagnosis is carried out according to modern occupational health criteria, which includes determining the clinical picture of the disease and the damage caused by the work process. The current health crisis caused by the pandemic of the new infectious disease COVID-19 points us to several challenges in the field of health and safety at work in the Republic of Croatia, including the administrative problem of reporting and recognising occupational diseases caused by COVID-19. At the beginning of April 2020, an amendment to the Regulation on Infectious Diseases completely removed all administrative barriers to the recognition of occupational diseases caused by COVID-19 infection"

"The global pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the consequent illness ofhealthcare workers from Covid-19 are largely responsible for the increase in thereported number of occupational diseases in the healthcare and social care sec-tor in 2020 in the Republic of Croatia. It is important to note that Covid-19 wasthe most common occupational disease in the field in 2020. The health sector isfirst in line as a result of workers' role in the diagnosis and treatment of thosesuffering from the disease and it could therefore be expected that the largestnumber of sick workers would be in this sector. After recovery (approximately 15days), and assuming there are no complications, sick workers return to work butas we do not yet know the extent of the effects of this disease, it is not possibleto predict whether there will be subsequent absences due to complications fromCovid-19. This article reports the trends in the notification of occupational dis-eases under Croatia's involved reporting system and categorises workers experi-encing occupational diseases by type of disease, sector of activity and geographical location."