14 Amendments of Karin KADENBACH related to 2011/2147(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to propose binding legislation before the end of 2012 to ensure that health and safety legislation fully applies to sub-contractors at all levels so as to put an end to the practice of limiting preventive measures to one's own workers.
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to review the Directive on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work (2004/37/EC) to enlarge its scope to include substances that are toxic for reproduction; notes that limit values on substances that endanger human health have only been set in a very few cases; calls, in the interests of workers, for the rapid implementation of REACH, and in particular for the substitueffective application of cthemicals that are especially harmful to human health substitution requirements laid down in Directive 2004/37/EC;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Regrets the delayed action of the Commission with regard to the presentation of a new legislative proposal on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from electromagnetic fields after the postponement of the implementation of Directive 2004/40/EC and calls for the rapid implementation of the relevant legislation when adopted;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the fact that the available data confirm the declining trend in occupational accidents; points out, however, that the number of occupational accidents is still too high;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Calls for a binding EU list of occupational illness, as a minimum requirement for Member States, which also recognises as occupational illnesses new pathogenic occupational stresses such as work-induced mental illness affecting the musculoskeletal system;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 f (new)
Paragraph 7 f (new)
7f. Calls on the Member States to implement as quickly as possible the Directive 2010/32/EU on the protection of healthcare workers from sharps injuries and to ensure highest level of protection from patients and healthcare workers being exposed to healthcare associated infections;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 g (new)
Paragraph 7 g (new)
7g. Stresses the need for the continual improvement of data collection in order to guarantee the EU-wide comparability of data;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 h (new)
Paragraph 7 h (new)
7h. Calls on the Member States and Commission to make guidelines on the protection of workers easier to apply in practice, without undermining the rules on health and safety at work;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 i (new)
Paragraph 7 i (new)
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 j (new)
Paragraph 7 j (new)
7j. Calls for binding limit values for manual lifting, since this is the most effective way of ensuring that employers provide more protection for their employees;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 k (new)
Paragraph 7 k (new)
7k. Points out that savings in the economic crisis must not mean losing sight of health and safety at work;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 l (new)
Paragraph 7 l (new)
7l. Underlines the responsibility of employers to foster the physical and mental health of workers; calls on undertakings to adopt company agreements that make company-level health promotion mandatory, in the form of a certified company health and safety management scheme in line with the quality criteria set by the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 m (new)
Paragraph 7 m (new)
7m. Calls for the EU-level social dialogue on health and safety at work and employee participation to be stepped up;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 n (new)
Paragraph 7 n (new)
7n. Calls for an improved cross-border exchange of information between the various national authorities with a view to more efficient checks when workers are transferred to other EU Member States;