Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD) are a major occupational health problem in Europe, affecting over 40 million workers. Current EU legislation includes some ergonomic provisions related to MSD prevention, but does not adequately address specifically Upper Limb Disorder-related MSD risks. In neither... Find out more

These three letters - MSD - mask the leading cause of occupational illness in Europe. According to a wide European survey on working conditions, 25% of European workers suffer from back pain and 23% from muscular pain.These particularly incapacitating pathologies seriously undermine the physical and... Find out more

Publication date: 2004Over a hundred thousand people in the European Union are killed each year in an accident or by a disease caused by poor working conditions. Truth to tell, this is no more than an approximate minimum, because no exact figures can be put on it. It is a conservative and certainly... Find out more

This publication summarizes the knowledge and experience accumulated during the six-year cooperation launched in 2004 by the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) with the intention of carrying out joint cross-border projects to improve the working... Find out more

The new Machinery Directive adopted in 2006 came into effect on 29 December 2009. It is a particularly complex piece of legislation that needs a route map through it in order to be implemented with proper regard for workers' safety. ETUI expert Stefano Boy analyses the new law's requirements on the... Find out more

This handbook aims to give an overview of the EU institutions and procedures involved in regulating health and safety at work, and the role of trade unions in relation to it. Depending on where their interests lie and what they already know about a given issue, readers can choose to explore the... Find out more

The EWC Directive of 1994 and its transposition in the Member States have been of considerable interest to trade unions over the years. Some of the key elements in the procedure for establishing EWCs are covered in these PowerPoint presentations, which contain slides on nine important aspects of the... Find out more

This is a flexible and practical guide for tutors working with ETUI Education (formerly called "ETUCO") and for those involved in transnational trade union education. It provides guidelines for the organisation and delivery of courses, examines aspects of trade union education (methods, materials... Find out more

The TRACE project, which ETUI Education coordinated, focused on the important issues of economic restructuring and the management of change. During the project a large number of useful training materials were identified in the many different sectors covered (including public services, metalworking... Find out more

The proposed reform of the European legislation on trade in chemical substances, known as REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals), pursues two main aims: ensuring a high level of protection for human health and the environment; and strengthening the competitiveness of the... Find out more