25 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2015/2107(INI)
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that all employees have a right to the highest level of protection regarding health and safety in the workplaceduring working time in the workplace and while on work-related travel, regardless of the size of the employer, the underlying contract or the Member State of employment;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that workers should enjoy the highest level of protection, whether that be under the legislation of the host country or of the worker’s country of origin;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to define and apply quantitative reduction targets at EU level for occupational diseases and accidents at workthe number of victims of accidents at work and occupational diseases and qualitative targets for better medical provision for victims following the 2016- review of the OSH strategic framework and to rely on the latest research findings when reviewing the framework;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that it is necessary to ensure a safe and healthy working environment throughout people’s working life, from the very start, including traineeship periods, in order to achieve the goal of active and healthy ageing for all workers;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that national OSH strategies are essentialindispensable and contributes to improvements in OSH in the Member States and stresses that regular reporting on progress made should be encouraged; considers it necessary to continue to initiate and coordinate policies at EU level with a view to ensuring a high level of occupational health and safety for all workers;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the intangible principle of subsidiarity with respect to health and protection at work;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Member States to incorporate quantitative, qualitative and measurable targets into their national strategies;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to take urgent measures to prevent the ‘uberisation’ of work;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. but imposes no binding measures which threaten the sustainability or even the very survival of the company;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States and social partners to take initiatives to upgrade the skills of health and safety representatives and managers; calls on the Commission to draw up guidelines for the involvement of employees at all levels in implementing preventive OSH measures;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that a preconditionn essential measure for good OSH management and performance is documented risk assessment, which allows for appropriate preventive measures to be put in place;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that this assessment subsequently implies a positive assumption of these risks;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to carry out regular audits of the measures applied in each of the Member States;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that ensuring a level playing- fieldequal working conditions in all industries and all Member States, based on the highest level of protection across the EU, and thus eliminating unfair competition and social dumping is crucial; stresses that labour inspectorates play a key role in enforcing workers’ rights to a safe and healthy working environment; calls on the Member States to follow the ILO recommendation of a minimum of one labour inspector per 10 000 workers and to increase staffing and resources available to labour inspectorates;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes efforts to improve the quality of the regulatory framework; reminds the Commission, however, that the submission of OSH directives to the REFIT exercise and modifications of legislation should be transparent, involve social partnerworkforces and must under no circumstances result in reductions in occupational health and safety;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Points to the importance of protecting workers against exposure to carcinogens, mutagens and substances that are toxic to reproduction in particular; calls on the Commission to present a proposal for a revision of Directive 2004/37/EC adding more binding occupational exposure limit values and in cooperation with the Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work to develop an assessment system that can be used to assess binding occupational limit values based on clear and explicit criteria, whilst acknowledging that the individual Member States are primarily responsible for implementing this vital measure;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Points out that many workers are still exposed to asbestos in their workplace; calls on the EU to work closely with social partners and the Member States to promote and coordinate Member States’ efforts todraw up a timetable for the development of national action plans for the management and safe removal of asbestos;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to take action on one of the most prevalent work-related health problems in Europe, and submit a proposal for a comprehensive directive on musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) to improve effective prevention and address the causes of MSDs; points out that integrating provisions of existing directives into a comprehensive directive laying down minimum requirements for protecting workers from exposure to ergonomic risk factors can benefit both workers and employersacknowledges that it is for the Member States to address a problem which is well known and relatively easy to solve;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Highlights the uncertainty about the distribution and use of new technologies, including nanomaterials, and believes that further research on the OSH risks associated with nanoew technologyies is needed;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop and implement a programme for systematic prevention and monitoring of psychosocial risks, including stress;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Stresses that the lack of a definition of these concepts makes it impossible, or at least more difficult, to address the resulting psychosocial problems;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to adopt a targeted approach to improve the health and safety situation of all workers in precarious employment and toby takeing into account the negative effects that precarious employment has on occupational health and safety when addressing this issue in general;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the collection of reliable and comparable data on occupational diseases and occupational exposures with a view to identifying best practices and creating a common database onwhich makes it possible to assess levels of occupational exposures more precisely;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses the importance of providing common definitions of work-related diseases and EU wide statistical data with a view to setting targets to reduce the incidence of occupational diseasesnumber of victims of AW-OD and improve medical provision for them, where necessary;