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"Workers’ rights to health, to security and to dignity in the EU are fundamental principles that are often infringed in daily life. That is what the European Parliament is emphasising in the Delli report adopted at noon today.
The assessment of the Community strategy 2007-2012 on health and safety at work is mixed at best: 168 000 European citizens die every year from work-related accidents or diseases and 7 million citizens are injured in accidents. The current situation is clearly difficult and European workers are among those worst affected by the economic crisis and the ensuing repercussions: fear of losing one’s job, increased stress and so on.
It is also important to take into account the increased health risks posed by technological developments and the widespread presence in the working environment of harmful substances. It is now time to reverse that trend, starting next year with the new strategy. That is why Members of the European Parliament are calling for better risk-prevention measures for workers.
It is time to shift the focus back to welfare, to high-quality, secure, decent work and to productivity, and these aspects must thus become the fundamental, urgent objectives of a more ambitious, more reactive European policy."@en1
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