Activities of Paul MURPHY related to 2011/2147(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the mid-term review of the European strategy 2007-2012 on health and safety at work PDF (270 KB) DOC (163 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 40 #
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; calls on the Commission to take swift action when infringements are detectedStrongly criticises that according to the 2009 scoreboard's findings, not all Member States set measurable targets related to their national OHS strategies and that the vast majority of them have not set targets on occupational diseases, work related health problems and illnesses, occupational risk factors or on high risk sectors;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that occupational accidents form only a limited part of the health problems caused by work, and that narrowing down the former much broader preventive focus of the Community Strategy to this single target breaks with the holistic spirit of the framework directive; criticises that the strategy for the current period (2007 – 2012) views occupational health primarily as a variable of the productivity and competitiveness of businesses;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. NotDeplores that legal requirements and employee claims are the two main factors motivating employers to take action the mid-term review presented by the Commission Services provides only very vague and general information about Member State's progress on implementing the strategy; highlights that neither the mid-term review nor the 2009 scoreboard on the Community Strategy on Health and Safety at Work provide any substantial information on where Member States stand with regard to the EU strategy’s only quantified target of a 25 % reduction in occupational accidents by 2012; calls for future evaluation reports better to assess the extent to which EU health and safety legislation has been complied with in practice in the Member States;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises the need to mainstream gender when dealing with issues concerning health and safety at work and welcomes the initiative of the Commission calling for the preparation of unique methods of impact assessment in OSH with regard to gender specificity; calls on the Commission to assess the availability of gender-disaggregated statistics at Community level on work-related fatal and non-fatal diseases;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes there is a need to study the link between suffering at work and the organisation of work and working time, rather than concentrating on statistical factors and detecting individual fragilities;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. BPoints out that about 50 % of workers in the EU still have no access to preventive services, especially as regards SMEs and subcontracting chains; highlights that most existing services are not fully multidisciplinary and many do not properly reflect the hierarchy of preventive measures laid down in the Framework Directive; believes that all workers, including those in the public sector, should be covered by risk- prevention arrangements; calls on the Commission to examine the state of Member States’ preventive systems in greater detail and to come forward with proposals, in cooperation with the competent national authorities, for framing coherent national prevention policies based on an overall EU strategy;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Is most concerned about the results of a recent study by the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and the European Brain Council (EBC) according to which more than one in three Europeans (164.8 million) suffers from a mental disorder which has thus become the leading cause of illness; calls on the Commission, through more in- depth studies, to examine more closely links with the workload, working schedules and working arrangements and, where appropriate, propose a list of measures to be taken;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Hopes that the future legislative proposal on musculoskeletal disorders will cover all workers; criticises, however, that the Commission proposes a narrow approach of a 'recast procedure' merging the provisions of Directives 90/269/EEC and 90/270/EEC into a single legislative instrument; calls on the Commission to propose a new Directive, based on the principles of prevention as described in Framework Directive 89/391/EEC on health and safety at work and designed to cover all work situations in a holistic approach to rule out MSD risk factors right from the outset; points out that not only biomechanical constraints, but also work content, work organisation, the physical and psychosocial environment, sensory and emotional constraints must be addressed, including the 'gender dimension', as women and men are differently affected by MSD risks;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Stresses that the scope of Directive 2004/37 needs to be extended to take into account new risk factors and reprotoxins, that the level of protection and prevention needs to be thoroughly improved by making exposure limit values (OELVs) for benzene, vinyl chloride monomer and hard wood dust more restrictive and by defining (OELVs) for a much bigger number of carcinogens than stipulated by the current Directive, in particular for cristalline silica;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Considers that the new Community strategy for occupational health and safety at work 2013 - 2020 should focus on using the potentials of REACH for improving workers’ protection from chemical hazards, a renewed effort for preventing work-related illnesses and improving workers’ quality of life at work, strengthening the monitoring and enforcement responsibilities of labour inspectorates and workers' participation in designing, monitoring and implementing prevention policies, improving the recognition of occupational diseases and addressing flexibility, insecurity, sub-contracting etc. as obstacles to proper risk prevention;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 b (new)
Paragraph 36 b (new)