HEALTHatWORK

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HEALTHatWORK An Inquiry into the Health and
Safety at Work a European Union
Perspective Coordination and Support Action
(Supporting) Project Coordinator Professor
Ioannis Theodossiou, University of Aberdeen, UK
Presenter Dr. Joke Haafkens, Amsterdam
Institute of Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS),
University of Amsterdam, NL
A project supported by the European Commission
through the 7th Framework Programme "THEME
HEALTH-2007-4.2-3 " .
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• List of Partners I
• University of Aberdeen, U.K. (Coordinator)
• Université de Bourgogne, France
• Baltic International Centre for Economic and
  Policy Studies, Latvia
• Aarhus University, Denmark
• HYDRAULIS, Greece
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
  France
• The Institute for Economic Analysis, Spain
• University of Athens, Greece
• University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Welsh Economy and Labour Market Evaluation
  Research Centre, UK

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• List of Partners II
• Ghent University, Belgium
• Fundación LEIA - Centro de Desarrollo
  Tecnológico, Spain
• Central Institute for Labour Protection
  National Research Institute, Poland
• University of Birmingham, U.K.
• Center for Public Affairs Studies Foundation,
  Hungary
• Università Cattolica, Italy.
• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy,
  Finland
• Berlin Scholl of Economics, Germany

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• The project aims to review current knowledge and
  issues related to the economic impact of health
  at work.
• This will be achieved through
• Co-ordinated reviews
• Development of common datasets regarding
  indicators of health and safety at work in the
  participant countries
• Associated GIS analysis capability
• A pilot study to evaluate how much employees and
  employers are wiling to invest in health and
  safety at work (vignettes)
• Policy recommendations aiming at improving the
  health and safety in the context of changing
  labour market environment and its repercussions
  in the competitiveness of European labour
  markets.

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• Expected Results I
• Review the of
• current state of knowledge on health and safety
  at work in the participant EU countries and to
  identify gaps in knowledge
• current data (such as the national Labour Force
  Surveys (LFS) regarding the incidence of
  accidents, illnesses and absenteeism at work and
  early retirement due to occupational
  illness/accident and management practices for
  health and safety in the European Union
• indicators on health and safety at work
• current knowledge/data related to gender and age
  related aspects of occupational health and
  safety at work
• management options for current state of affairs
  regarding health and safety at work

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• Expected Results II
• Hold workshops on assessment and management of
  health and safety at work
• Explore the possibility of developing new health
  and safety at work indicators by using large
  scale available surveys (such as Labour Force
  Surveys (LFS)
• Use GIS to map and analyze health and safety at
  work indicators
• Design a (common) protocol for the collection of
  (new) health and safety at work indicators for EU
  member states

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• Expected Results III
• Pilot a novel approach to eliciting values of
  both employers and employees regarding the health
  and safety at work
• Disseminate the information and results from
  various stages of the project through reports and
  publications
• Develop new research proposals to address
  perceived gaps in the information required for
  improving occupational health and safety
  indicators
• Propose appropriate protocols for collecting
  additional data (including proposing questions
  for the large scale surveys such as the LFS) that
  can contribute to the improvement of the accuracy
  of health and safety at work indicators

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More Information WWW.ABDN.AC.UK/HAW/
Prof. Ioannis Theodossiou theod_at_abdn.ac.uk Dr
. Joke Haafkens J.A.Haafkens_at_uva.nl