Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-06-Speech-2-030"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Health and safety at work: Exposure to optical radiation2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050906.6.2-030"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-06-Speech-2-0312
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Christensen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I think that the right-of-centre Members of the Chamber are trying to make light of a generally serious matter. Protection of workers’ health and safety is at the heart of a social Europe. This directive is precisely an attempt to improve workers’ conditions by emphasising all the dangers to health to which workers are exposed in the work place as a result of optical radiation. Sunlight presents a risk to the many people who work out of doors every day. There have been seven times as many cases of skin cancer in the last 30 years, and it is beyond doubt that the risk of contracting skin cancer is far higher for those employed in, for example, the construction sector or agriculture. That is the reality to which we have to respond, and those are the figures that make it our duty to demand that, in future, employers inform their workers as to how they are to protect themselves against the sun’s dangerous rays. Radiation in the work place is dangerous, and there is a need for common European rules. The Commission has been given the task of describing all the risks to which workers are exposed in working life. The sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays endanger people and naturally need to feature in the directive. For workers, cancer is no less real whether caused by natural or artificial radiation. Workers naturally have a responsibility for their own health and safety. We demand only that employers also accept their share of responsibility. We have found a solution that does not overburden employers and that includes worker protection. We can only interpret right-of-centre opposition as another attempt to renationalise labour market legislation. It is an entirely incomprehensible point of view, which will distort competition within the EU’s borders. There must be common European rules. That is the only way in which we can guarantee decent conditions for all European wage earners."@en1

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