Working in Europe: killing you slowly
Young people, old people, illegal people - the three sections of society who are the biggest victims of work-related accidents. The EU estimate this to be at 6, 000 every year. Why are you working yourself into an early grave? To distort the famous words of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, ‘work more to suffer more’
From the UK to Bulgaria: bad safety in the European workplace
The EU sorely lacks directives for security and danger prevention at work. The principle norms are the 1989 Security Directive, which imposes rules to prevent the risk of accidents in the workplace, and the Seveso Directive (and its updates), which implements monitoring and strict rules for the most dangerous industrial sites. Overview
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18, 648 ‘legal’, industrial deaths in Europe
'Produce, consume, die’: the soundtrack for European industrial casualties is provided by eighties Italian punk group CCPP. For the third consecutive year, accidents and serious injuries are up by one quarter and a fifth respectively. Overview spanning Poland and Italy via the UK and India
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