70 Amendments of Karima DELLI related to 2011/2147(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the right to health is a fundamental right and whereas all workers enjoy a legal guarantee of working conditions which respect their health, safety and dignity, 1 2and having regard to the principle of effectiveness of rights and the positive obligation of States to guarantee them, Or. fr Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0332 OJ C 77 E, 28.3.2002, p. 138.
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas occupational risk prevention has similar objectives to sustainable development: anticipating the potentially negative impact of action taken by companies, groups or society,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas technological development and changes in economic and social conditions are constantly changing work places and practices, rapid political, administrative and technical responses are therefore essential in order to guarantee a high level of health and safety at work,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas work is a source of income but also of individual and social identification and thus a factor in individual and collective fulfilment,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas risk prevention is essential to reducing the rate of work-related accidents and sickness; having regard to the positive impact of good health and safety at work management at both national and European levels and for companies,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas the consolidation of a genuine common market is intrinsically linked to the elimination of all forms of social dumping,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas the financial and economic crisis continues to unbalance the labour market by increasing insecure forms of work which are characterised by a low level of worker protection,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)
Recital A g (new)
Ag. whereas austerity budgets and cuts in social spending risk harming action to improve health and safety at work,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)
Recital A h (new)
Ah. whereas in Europe small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) employ 66% of the economically active population, and whereas the proportion is rising, but account for 82% of occupational injuries and 90% of fatal accidents[1], [1] EU-OSHA
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. having regard to the ageing of the EU population, the trend towards longer working lives and the need to raise healthy life expectancy; having regard to the inequalities in life expectancy between different socioprofessional categories and to hardship at work; whereas in addition to musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), workers over the age of 55 are particularly prone to cancers, heart disease, respiratory problems and sleep disorders[1], [1] Eurofound: ‘Working conditions of an ageing workforce’
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas protecting young workers can prevent work-related health problems occurring later in life,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas in the services sector, young workers and women are insufficiently covered by reintegration and job-retention policies[1], [1] EU-OSHA, ‘Young Workers – Facts and Figures’ (http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/rep orts/7606507/view) and the related fact sheet (http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/fac tsheets/70), 2007; ‘Facts and Figures – Musculoskeletal disorders’, 2010 (http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/rep orts/TERO09009ENC/view); and ‘Facts and Figures – The Transport Sector’, 2011
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the outsourcing of work through subcontracting and temporary agency work often involves less skilled labour and looser employment relationships, which makes it more difficult to identify responsibility for health and safety at work (OHS),
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas accidents, MSDs and work- related stress are the main areas of concern for European enterprises in relation to OHS[1], [1] EU-OSHA, Esener Survey 2009, http://osha.europa.eu/sub/esener/en/front- page/document_view?set_language=en
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. having regard to the growing impact of chronic work-related health problems such as musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) and psycho-social risks, and whereas, according to the WHO, by 2020 depression will be the main cause of unfitness for work;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas psycho-social risks are risks related to stress, symbolic violence and harassment at work; whereas stress is linked to job insecurity, ethical conflicts, poor work organisation (for example, deadline pressure or excessive workload), conflict with clients, a lack of support at work, unstable labour relations or an inappropriate work-life balance;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas technological development brings new health and safety risks for workers which should be evaluated;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the Europe 2020 Strategy aims, by 2020, to attain an employment rate of 75% for the section of the population aged between 20 and 64, with priority for the employment of women, young people, older workers, the low- skilled and legal immigrants, and to improve social cohesion;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas 168 000 European citizens die every year from work-related accidents or diseases and 7 million are injured in accidents,
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that the European reference framework on occupational health and safety (OHS) does not automatically provide for improvement in working conditions, and that proper implementation, notably via employee participation, and supervision of the application of the legislation are crucial, as are tripartite dialogue arrangements, gathering and disseminating data, awareness-raising campaigns and networking of training and information services; calls on the Commission to take swift action when infringements are detected;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that OHS policies, at European and national level, should be made consistent with other public policies: health, employment, industry, environment, transport, education and energy, energy, regional development, public procurement and the internal market;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of fully implementing REACH and the need for greater synergy between REACH and OHS policies, both at European level and in the Member States; calls for transparency regarding the activities of the Substance Information Exchange Forum;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets the unequal application across the EU of the Framework Agreement on Work-related Stress and calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal on work-related stress; calls on the Commission to support, facilitate and monitor the transposition of the agreements concluded and resolutions agreed by the social partners in the field of OHS;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recalls that OHS is necessarily multidisciplinary, as it draws on – in particular – occupational medicine, safety, ergonomics, epidemiology, toxicology, industrial hygiene and psychology;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Considers that, if European citizens are to be asked to remain at work until a greater age, their working conditions must be improved;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Deplores the lack of synergy between the directive on collective redundancies and the directives on OHS, at a time when processes of reorganisation and restructuring of businesses and public administrations will create greater threats to OHS;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Stresses the added value of Union policy on chemicals and the potential for improvement which should be exploited to prevent work-related cancers;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 e (new)
Paragraph 9 e (new)
9e. Calls on the Commission to share the results of the analysis of the social, environmental and economic impact of carcinogens or mutagens and to propose an amendment to Directive 2004/37/EC on carcinogens or mutagens in order to impose new binding limits on products which are not yet covered by it; recalls that the present trend is towards greater concern about risks posed by chemicals in cases where the use of chemicals is not intentional but they are secondary effects (for example in waste treatment) and about combined exposure to multiple hazardous substances;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 f (new)
Paragraph 9 f (new)
9f. Deplores the fact that in 2009 several Member States did not focus their national strategies on the three priorities of the EU strategy: stress and burn-out at work, RSI and research into and regular gathering of data on new risks; considers that national strategies should devote greater efforts and resources to prevention;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 g (new)
Paragraph 9 g (new)
9g. Stresses that the emergence of new types of jobs (for example green jobs) is a source of new opportunities to protect workers1 and adapt vocational training; [1] EU-OSHA, Foresight of new and emerging risks to occupational safety and health associated with new technologies in green jobs by 2020, Phase 1 : (http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/rep orts/foresight-green-jobs-drivers- change_TERO11001ENN/view) and Phase 2 (http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/rep orts/foresight-green-jobs-key- technologies/view; and NIOSH http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/PtD/gree njobs.html
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 h (new)
Paragraph 9 h (new)
9h. Considers that corporate social responsibility has a part to play in promoting OHS;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) to compile national indicators on exposure to cancers and to review the knowledge on exposure of particularly vulnerable workers (women, the personal services sector, etc.);
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes the results of the Commission’s ‘Scoreboard 2009’ project illustrating the individual performances of the Member States; believes that the project needs to cover every area of the 2007-2012 strategy; regrets that the data are not subject to any democratic control and are provided on a purely optional basis;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Notes that the European countries with the lowest occupational accident rates are also the most competitive countries1; believes that data collection needs to be expanded in order to gauge the impact which effective risk prevention has on industrial competitiveness; 1 EU-OSHA and World Economic Forum 2011.
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Believes that workers’ representatives help to improve OHS, especially in SMEs and if representation is organised on a formal basis; considers employee participation to be a further key factor in successful OHS-related risk management1; 1 EU-OSHA, ESENER survey.
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that all workers, including those in the public sector, should be covered by risk-prevention arrangements; hopes that the target will be one risk prevention inspector for every 3 000 employees;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that the independence of prevention services vis-à-vis the employer must be guaranteed; considers, as far as occupational health is concerned, that monitoring, alerts, health expertise, and the related sound advice can be handled only by independent health professionals; regrets that the management of occupational health services remains entrusted, in certain Member States, to employer associations, acting as both judge and defendant, their general meetings being the real decision-taking bodies;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Points out that labour inspectors play a vital role in verifying the implementation of the legislation in force and, thereby, in prevention, in particular by ascertaining compliance with decent working conditions for vulnerable categories of workers or in occupations in which undeclared work tends to occur; encourages the Member States to strengthen sanctions against enterprises not complying with their obligations concerning fundamental rights (salaries and OHS, including working hours);
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Points out that EU-OSHA recommends that a standard framework be used for risk assessment and prevention1; 1 EU-OSHA, http://osha.europa.eu/en/topics/riskassess ment/index_html
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls for the prevention of problems related to health and safety at work to be treated with the same attention in the private and the public sector; points out that the principle of non-discrimination is binding;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Deplores the failure in a number of Member States to coordinate public and occupational health policies;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Points out that labour inspectorates have a vital role to play in prevention and monitoring and also help to improve information and expertise at company level; urges the Member States to increase the staffing levels of, and the resources available to, their labour inspectorates and meet the target of one inspector for every 10 000 workers, as recommended by the ILO, and to impose more severe penalties on firms that fail to comply with their obligations concerning fundamental rights (salaries, working hours, and OHS); considers that the penalties in such cases must be effective, proportionate, and dissuasive;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 e (new)
Paragraph 21 e (new)
21e. Endorses the useful work which the Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee (SLIC) is doing to bring national cultures closer together; calls for its resources and powers to be strengthened; hopes that it will work together more actively with the Luxembourg Advisory Committee; calls on SLIC to draw up proposals to establish a European labour inspectorate, which would provide invaluable expertise on the posting of workers and cross-border trade in services;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 f (new)
Paragraph 21 f (new)
21f. Calls on Member States to bring more searching scrutiny to bear on the failure to report accidents at work;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Notes that risk assessment is carried out in most companies, albeit to a lesser extent in small enterprises and in some Member States1; 1 EU-OSHA, ESENER survey.
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Considers that risks arise not so much because SMEs are intrinsically less safe as from the fact that working patterns are flawed and the resources earmarked for OHS are less substantial; believes that SMEs need to be helped to set up their risk prevention policies; points to the usefulness of OiRA and similar initiatives and of economic incentives; calls on the Member States to exchange their best practices;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)
Paragraph 22 c (new)
22c. Points out that information and awareness campaigns are essential in order to alert companies – SMEs included – to risks and ensure that they carry out the necessary prevention measures;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Is concerned about the impact of subcontracting, for example in civil and military nuclear installations, as each employer tends to limit their preventive actions to their own employees; calls on the Commission to propose legislation on subcontracting; calls for a ban on subcontracting chains in activities that are important in terms of safety;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Considers that risk assessment should be multidisciplinary and based on employee participation;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. calls on the Member States to incorporate OHS from the start of training and subsequently as part of lifelong learning; believes it would be desirable to make risk education compulsory in certain technological, scientific, artistic and sporting fields, as well as in management training courses; would like Member States to incorporate OHS into university teaching, so that it reaches future engineers, architects, business people, managers, etc;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Calls on the Member States to assess the quality of the training of their workplace risk prevention managers and supports their exchanges of best practices;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Encourages the Member States to invest in labour science; wishes to see more research at the EU and national levels in this regard;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 e (new)
Paragraph 23 e (new)
23e. Stresses that the main obstacles to concern for psycho-social risks at work are personal receptiveness to the issue, lack of awareness, lack of resources and lack of expertise[1]; 1 EU-OSHA, ESENER survey.
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 f (new)
Paragraph 23 f (new)
23f. Notes that enterprises generally deal with psycho-social risks by providing training, but workers suffer first and foremost because the organisation of work and management style are poor;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 g (new)
Paragraph 23 g (new)
23g. Stresses that legal complexity does not appear to be a major obstacle to the adoption of policies concerning health and safety at work [1]; 1 EU-OSHA, ESENER survey.
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Member States to introduce penalties against any refusal by insurance companies to recognise work- related accidents for commercial reasons;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Regrets the lack of initiatives to tackle the situation of the self-employed, temporary workers, domestic workers and people working on short-term contracts, as they too have the right to have their OHS respected; points out that these casual workers do not have the same level of social security and their situation in terms of protection at work is exacerbated by a lack of experience and training; moreover, there is some difficulty in ascribing future health consequences to periods of temporary work; calls, in particular, for the revision of Directive 91/383 with regard to subcontracting activities, and of the Posting of Workers Directive;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Reiterates the recommendation of the HIRES European report that temporary workers and company employees should be given the same rights to health promotion where the nature of their work is long-term work directed by the main employer.
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Considers that excessive working hours and insufficient rest periods are major factors in the increased level of occupational accidents and diseases and calls for a satisfactory balance between work and family life; hopes that the opt- out provisions applicable to Directive 2003/88/EC will be removed; stresses that these provisions violate the fundamental principles of OSH;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Is alarmed at the increase in enforced part-time work, disjointed hours and night work; calls for the risks to the balance between work and private life posed by teleworking and multiple jobs to be assessed;(affecting women in particular[1]) to be assessed; [1] INSEE, 2006, http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/IP1081. pdf
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Considers that measures to encourage part-time work for older workers could provide a progressive transition to retirement and enhance the well-being and capacities of older workers;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
31b. Reiterates its request to the Commission contained in the resolution of 23 February 2005 on the European Environmental and Health Action Plan 2004-2010 to designate environmental tobacco as a class A1 carcinogen under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, so that tobacco smoke falls within the scope of Directive 2004/37/EC on carcinogens and mutagens;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 c (new)
Paragraph 31 c (new)
31c. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal to Parliament and Council in 2012 seeking to ban smoking everywhere at the workplace, including indoor catering establishments, on all public transport and in all enclosed public buildings within the EU;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Is alarmed at the persistent number of cancers associated with the exercise of an occupation; regrets that a large number of workers are still exposed to the dangers of asbestos, particularly in the maintenance and decontamination sectors;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Stresses that risks from carcinogens principally affect workers in the industrial, crafts and agricultural sectors, together with women in the services sector who are repeatedly exposed to them1; calls for an impact assessment regarding the exposure of agricultural workers to chemicals; 1 ETUI, 2010, http://hesa.etui- rehs.org/uk/publications/pub54.htm
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to accelerate the implementation of REACH, and in particular the substitution of the most worrying chemicals; considers that work- related diseases should be taken into account in the prioritisation of these substances;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Believes that maximum exposure limits based on health effects and not on an evaluation of technical feasibility, as is currently the case, should be established at European level for the majority of carcinogenic substances; stresses that harmonisation must always be upwards, that is to say based on the most stringent limits;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to propose measures to adapt working conditions more closely to the needs of those suffering from cancer or other work-related diseases and chronic diseases;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 b (new)
Paragraph 36 b (new)
36b. Takes the view that the emerging ecological employment sector requires specific attention; calls for environmental impact evaluations and surveys regarding the toxicity of ecological materials and the working conditions of those putting into service the appliances used for the production of renewable energy (manufacture, use, maintenance and recycling);