1. Antonio Cammarota DG EMPL/B3 Health and Safety
EU OSH Information System State of Play and Outlook 3rd ACSH Workshop on National OSH Strategies Luxembourg, September 2016
Antonio Cammarota
DG EMPL/B3
Health and Safety

2. Background Important precedent: the 2009 Scoreboard
Developed as a voluntary pilot initiative by the Government Interest Group of the ACSH to provide an overview of trends and developments in the Member States in relation to the EU OSH strategy
Collected the results of a survey conducted on the basis of a questionnaire sent to the MS, and structured around six major topics: 1) statistics, 2) national strategies, 3) occupational accidents, 4) work-related health problems and illnesses, 5) chemical agents, and 6) prevention potential

3. Background
Implementation of the EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work – Two Key Strategic Objectives covered:
Consolidate and extend the information network on national OSH strategies
Enhance information tools for evidence-based policy-making, including monitoring the implementation of the EU SF

4. What is an EU OSH Info System?
A permanent tool to monitor the state of national OSH systems over time, based on a set of both quantitative and qualitative indicators

5. Why an EU OSH Info System?
Main aims:
Develop a more complete and more differentiated understanding of the EU situation on occupational safety and health
Provide a clearer picture of differences and communalities among Member States as regards the structure of their systems, the nature of their problems and the way to address them
Develop better tailored initiatives at the EU level
Opportunity for the Member States to learn from each other's best practice and experience

6. Who are the main actors?
Developed by the Commission in cooperation with an external consultant and with the technical support of EU-OSHA, which will provide the ICT platform to make the system operational and will ensure the technical follow-up of the project
A dedicated WP of the ACSH will be monitoring the entire construction process
The contact point group on national strategies, set up by the Commission in 2015, will follow the preparation and will then operate as the official channel of transmission of information to update and feed into the system

7. The construction process
2-year contract signed in March The contractor selected is a consortium made of Kooperationsstelle Hamburg (DE) (consortium leader) and Eurogip (FR)
Process structured around two phases
Development phase
Implementation phase

8. The construction process
Development phase
Develop a structural description of national OSH systems in the form of
a set of interrelated structural elements defining the constituent elements of a national OSH system and describing how it operates in practice
a set of indicators, both quantitative and qualitative, to enable comparison between Member States on 1) a number of characteristics of their respective national systems, and 2) a number of performance indicators (preventive potential achieved by each national system)
a specific set of performance indicators to monitor the implementation in the Member States of the EU Strategic Framework

9. The construction process
Implementation phase
This will include:
the selection and collection of information relating to all the 28 EU Member States to be included in the structural model as defined in the development phase
the transfer of data to the EU-OSHA data visualisation tool in the final stage of implementation of the project consisting in the design, drafting and presentation of descriptive text and graphic visualisation of the information on the web tool

10. The construction process: State of play
Inception report (submitted by the contractor in April 2016)
First interim report (submitted by the contractor in July 2016)

11. The construction process: State of play
Advance in the definition of a structural model for the construction and implementation of the new EU OSH Information System
Five structural information categories (and relevant indicators) identified to describe OSH national systems :
Background information (OSH authorities, compensation and insurance systems, predominant sectors in the 28 countries, (ageing) workforce )
Steering and monitoring (national OSH capacity: national OSH strategies, national OSH statistics, legislation, instruments for the monitoring of compliance and on the social dialogue in the field of OSH)
OSH infrastructure (enforcement capacity and strategy of the labour inspection, OSH training capacities, OSH networks and collaboration on the fields of OSH, research capacities and information for companies and other OSH target groups)
OSH outcomes (data on accidents at work, occupational illness and health perception of the workers)
Working conditions and prevention (compliance of companies, prevention culture, health awareness, OSH services in the companies and worker representation)

12. The construction process: State of play
Advance in the definition of a structural model for the construction and implementation of the new EU OSH Information System
Three sets of (quantitative and qualitative) indicators identified :
Outcomes and risk level (rates and development of workplace accidents; rates and development of occupational diseases and work-related illnesses; quantity and quality of risk factors and exposures at workplaces; characteristics of the elder workforce)
Prevention level in enterprises (organisation; awareness and enterprise culture; professional competence (education, training, instruction); worker involvement)
Public OSH-infrastructure (strategic policy approaches; regulation; implementation; enforcement; compensation and insurance; collaboration (between actors e.g. through social dialogue and across borders between Member States or with international organisations); guidance for enterprises; communication to enterprises and the public; quality of data collection and monitoring; research; training and education)

13. The construction process: State of play
Sources in the focus for data selection:
Eurostat’s European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW)
Evaluation of EU-OSH Directives (COWI, IOM and Milieu)
EU-OSHA’s European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-2)
EUROFOUND’s European Work Condition Surveys (EWCS, )
the EC’s research project “New and Emerging Risks and their Consequences for Labour Inspection” (NERCLIS) (University of Cardiff, Kooperationsstelle Hamburg et al.) on the performance of labour inspectorates in Europe
EU-OSHA’s OSH Wiki national OSH system descriptions and other OSH Wiki articles
European Core Health Indicators (ECHI) and identified occupational health indicators
Labour Force Survey Ad-hoc modules (LFS AHMs) on accidents at work and other work-related and ill health problems
SLIC reports
ISSA and ILO databases / web portals, e.g. Country OSH-profiles , and data bases on social security information, e.g. MISSOC and Sozialkompass Europa

14. The construction process: State of play
Next steps in 2016:
Pilot test (submission foreseen in October 2016) will close the development phase
Based on the structural model, it will present, in the form of a scale model including a representative sample of EU Member States and indicators, the expected results of the project
The pilot will also provide examples of visualisation in the ICT format developed by EU-OSHA
It will be presented to the ACSH WP “EU OSH Information system” in a dedicated meeting and then discussed with all relevant stakeholders in a validation seminar in November

15. The construction process: State of play
Validation seminar
Luxembourg, 28/11/2016
5 indicators: ageing workforce, national OSH strategy, accident rate, enforcement capacity, research capacity
5 countries: Germany, France, Denmark, Romania and Italy
Discussion of indicators and their visualisation potential
Visualisation demonstration by EU-OSHA via a mock-up version of already existing visualisation (data from the EU-OSHA projects “Safer and healthier at any age” and “OSH strategies”)

16. Outlook
Finalisation of the project foreseen in 2018 EU OSH Information system accessible via the EU-OSHA ITC platform Periodical update via national contact points

17. Thank you for your attention!