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"The study set out to map best practices on work-life balance (WLB) agreements negotiated by social partners in 10 Member States: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. The focus of the research was specifically on measures of work-life balance that enable parents and other people with caring responsibilities to reconcile work, family and private life, through the introduction of family and parental leave schemes, care arrangements, and the development of a working environment which facilitates the combination of work, family and private life for women and men.

While a European legislative framework and national legislation provide basic rights for parents to reconcile professional and private life, collective agreements have and will be important in providing much-needed additional rights tailored to specific constituencies. Moreover, collective agreements are important in ensuring the proper implementation of existing rights.

By highlighting good practices in 10 Member States, this study allows for an exchange of best practices across countries, sectors and companies."

"The study set out to map best practices on work-life balance (WLB) agreements negotiated by social partners in 10 Member States: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. The focus of the research was specifically on measures of work-life balance that enable parents and other people with caring responsibilities to reconcile work, family and private life, through the introduction of family and parental leave schemes, care arrangements, and the development of a working environment which facilitates the combination of work, family and private life for women and men.

While a European legislative framework and national legislation provide basic rights for parents to reconcile professional and private life, collective agreements have and will be important in providing much-needed additional rights tailored to specific constituencies. Moreover, collective agreements are important in ensuring the proper implementation of existing rights.

By highlighting good practices in 10 Member States, this study allows for an exchange of best practices across countries, sectors and companies."

"The SHARP Joint Action aims to strengthen preparedness in the EU against serious cross-border threats to health and support the implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005) (World Health Organization, 2016). Surveillance is a key activity required under the International Health Regulations (IHR). Tested surveillance systems are required for the detection, verification, and risk assessment of the impact of chemical events of (potential) health concern as part of a multi-hazard surveillance strategy. The aim of this work was to review the global tools, systems, and strategies currently available for the public health surveillance of chemical health threats, including incidents, events, and exposures with the potential to impact health.
The published literature was searched for relevant articles and reports that demonstrated good practice. Using indexing databases, Medline, Web of Science and Embase databases, and grey literature indexing sources, a total of 4066 titles were extracted, of which 175 articles and reports were included in this review. The material identified was divided into nine themes; acute surveillance, event-based surveillance, industrial surveillance, occupational surveillance, oil spills, environmental contamination surveillance, maternal/paediatric surveillance, system approaches and other surveillance and tools (for miscellaneous titles that did not fit into a theme). These were further synthesised into four key themes: acute surveillance, industrial and occupational surveillance, environmental contamination surveillance and system approaches.
In conclusion, different chemical incident surveillance tools are used for identifying and responding to chemical incidents, and for protecting public health and the environment. Various systems and reporting tools are available for chemical health threat surveillance for public health purposes. Through ongoing monitoring and collaboration, these systems can help to prevent and mitigate the impact on health of chemical incidents and promote safe and responsible practices in the use and handling of hazardous materials. In addition to the importance of surveillance, it is critical to take proactive measures to prevent chemical incidents from occurring in the first place. This can include efforts to improve safety regulations, increase awareness of the risks associated with chemicals, and promote the use of safer chemicals and production processes.
Overall, the risk to health of unintentional chemical exposures and chemical incidents underscores the need for ongoing vigilance and coordinated efforts to protect public health and safety. By developing and implementing effective surveillance and prevention strategies, we can help mitigate the risks associated with chemical incidents and reduce their impact on individuals, communities, and the environment."

"D'après plusieurs études représentatives, l'intensité du travail est à la hausse en Europe. L'un des phénomènes étroitement lié à l'augmentation de l'intensité de travail est le développement du stress lié au travail.
En théorie, il existe à présenr un consensus large sur la définition du stress ainsi que sur d'autres quuestions méthodologiques. Le lien entre les risques liés au travail et le stress est traités dans les manuels, tout comme l'évaluation et la gestion du stress. Cependant, on connait moins la dynamique du stress lié au travail dans les divers métiers. [...]"

"Against a background of population ageing, and with it, concomitant effects on social welfare systems and labour markets, public policy makers in affected nations are seeking ways of pushing out the final age of withdrawal from their labour markets. Central to such efforts is promoting the contribution of older workers to organizations and overcoming labour market age barriers. Within this advocacy approach there has been recent interest in identifying and promulgating examples of employer best practice in order to emphasize new dimensions of the business case for employing older workers. Drawing on literature concerned with advocating an ethical concern in human resource management as pertains to older workers, this article examines an exemplar set of employer case studies aimed at promulgating best practice. It considers the concept of age management and its manifestations to argue that many standard HRM practices are firmly, although probably unwittingly, grounded in ageist assumptions concerning the capacities, potentiality and contributions of both younger and older workers. This, we argue, is a consequence of an unnecessarily narrow conception of good employment practice based in an economic rationality that is not conducive to the effective management of age in organizations."

"IntroductionLittle is known about the transfer into the workplace of interventions designed to reduce the physical demands of sheet metal workers.MethodsWe reviewed videos from a case series of 15 sheet metal worksite assessments performed in 2007–2009 to score postures and physical loads, and to observe the use of recommended interventions to reduce physical exposures in sheet metal activities made by a NIOSH stakeholder meeting in 2002.ResultsWorkers showed consistent use of material handling devices, but we observed few uses of recommended interventions to reduce exposures during overhead work. Workers spent large proportions of time in awkward shoulder elevation and low back rotation postures.ConclusionsIn addition to the development of new technologies and system designs, increased adoption of existing tools and practices could reduce time spent in awkward postures and other risks for musculoskeletal disorders in sheet metal work."