Activities of Laura AGEA related to 2015/2107(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU Strategic framework on health and safety at work 2014-2020 (debate) IT
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020 PDF (214 KB) DOC (150 KB)
Amendments (27)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas good health is a fundamental and inalienable individual right that has positive value in itself;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the right to health is in the basic interest of society;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas workers’ health depends on prevention, primary prevention consisting of a healthy lifestyle in a healthy working environment;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the economic crisis and austerity policies have eroded company earnings and assets, particularly in the case of SMEs, leaving less funding available for health and safety at work;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas there is a significant diversity between Member States regarding the extent to which they are addressing the occupational safety and health issues at the workplace;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. WelcomNotes that many important fields of action are identified in the EU OSH strategic framework; stresses, in this context, that more concrete and harmonised legislative measures should be included in the framework, following the 2016-review;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls onUrges the Commission to define and apply quantitative reduction targets at EU level for occupational diseases and accidents at work following the 2016- review of the OSH strategic framework and to rely on the latest research findings when reviewing the framework;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the need of a safe and healthy working environment, particularly in more dangerous sectors such as agriculture, construction and industry, that is to say the sectors in which fatal accidents and serious work-related illnesses are known to occur;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses the need for specific measures to counter the effects of the crisis by assisting companies seeking to improve safety and health at work;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that national OSH strategies are essential and contributes to improvements in OSH in the Member States and stresses that regular reporting on progress made should be encouraged; considers it necessaryessential to continue to initiate and coordinate policies at EU level on a harmonised basis with a view to ensuring a high level of occupational health and safety for all workers;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that national OSH strategies are fully transparent and open to input from social partners, encouraging the sharing of good practices and increasing social dialogue as a means of improving working conditions and industrial relations;
Amendment 172 #
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 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the Member States to provide training for staff to increase the awareness on health and safety issues;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Acknowledges the importance of taking into account the situation, specific needs and lack of compliance by micro and small enterprises in the implementation of OSH measures at company level; notes that the economic crisis has eroded company earnings and assets, particularly in the case of SMEs, leaving less funding available for health and safety at work; encourages the Commission, EU-OSHA and the Member States to continue developing practical tools and guidelines, which improve the compliance of SMEs with OSH requirements;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Encourages the Commission and Member States to develop standard procedures with a view to simplifying compliance by SMEs with OSH requirements;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Ccalls 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 active involvement of employees in implementing preventive OSH measures; urges the Commission to provide managers and workers with the appropriate tools for such initiatives;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the need to consider the health and psychological wellbeing of workers arising from restructuring and the introduction of new technologies and working practices;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that a precondition for good OSH management and performance is fully documented risk assessment, based on scientific data, which allows for appropriate preventive measures to be put in place;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that ensuring a level playing- field across the EU and 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; cCalls on the Member States to follow the ILO recommendation of astep up the human and financial resources allocated to labour inspectorates and accordingly increase substantially the number of inspectors, while earmarking more European funding for constantly more effective monitoring instruments; (The ILO-recommended minimum of one labour inspector pfor every 10 000 workers and to increase staffing and resources available to labour inspectorates;. is totally inadequate. According to the Commission, there are around 20 000 inspectors in the EU (one for every 9 000 workers) carrying out 1 500 000 inspections annually, in other words one inspection per worker every 24 years, assuming that they work 365 days a year! These figures are clearly ridiculous.)
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. WelcomNotes 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 partners and must under no circumstances result in reductions in occupational health and safety;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen and improve the legislative framework designed to tackle undeclared work, which frequently exposes workers to dangerous and unhealthy working conditions;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses the need to introduce more stringent rules for the protection of workers, taking into account not only exposure periods but also the mix of chemical and/or toxic substances to which they are exposed;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises the need to considerably step up funding earmarked for the safe removal of asbestos in all Member States, abandoning austerity measures that have obstructed the necessary corrective action;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Urges the Member States to compensate workers exposed to asbestos;
Amendment 317 #
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 monitoring of psychosocial risks, including stress; calls on the Commission and the Member States also to monitor compliance with maximum working hours with a view to ensuring health and safety as well as productivity;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Despite their crucial place in the economy, there has been little research and few data available on micro and small companies, particularly in terms of the implementation of fundamental workers' rights, such as health and safety at work; in that respect calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase efforts in order to collect reliable data to improve the quality of work and employment;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges the Commission to include agreements, conventions and standards regarding safety and health at work in all partnership negotiations, in particular the ongoing TTIP deliberations with the United States;