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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:A new Community health and safety at work strategy 2002-20062
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021022.10.2-264"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-22-Speech-2-2652
lpv:speaker	lp:Jill Evans2
lpv:spoken text	". – Mr President, on behalf of the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities, I welcome the communication on this strategy for health and safety at work. I would particularly like to congratulate Mr Hughes on his report. As he said, I have been very pleased with the way that our committees have worked together on this issue and, in particular, the cooperation with the rapporteur which has ensured that the points made by the Committee on Women's Rights have been fully taken on board. This is important because, while men are more often the victims of serious accidents at work, women tend to suffer for longer periods of time from work-related illnesses. Adult women receive less vocational training and education than their male colleagues. That is why it is so important that we have a gender breakdown of statistics on work-related ill health and accidents for full-time, part-time and temporary employment. The Commissioner agreed that gender must be mainstreamed throughout this strategy so that issues such as the effect of the double workload of paid employment and personal responsibilities and issues such as harassment in the workplace are properly addressed. If risk assessment and workplace design fail to take gender into account, women will continue to be prevented from entering certain professions and sectors. An evaluation of current health and safety law is needed so that we can identify problem areas to make future legislation more effective. For example, domestic workers and home workers, many of whom are women, must be protected, as well as women in agriculture and spouses in family-run small businesses. I totally support the rapporteur in his comments on the lack of resources in the Commission to deal with health and safety policy and, in particular, the need for a detailed and costed action plan and a very strict timetable for improving legislation in this very important area. I support the report."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Plaid Cymru - Parti of Wales (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Evans, Jillian (Verts/ALE ),"1 "draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities"1

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