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We voted in favour of this important report on promoting health and safety at the workplace, drawn up by a Member of our Group, which contains a number of very positive proposals.
The figures cited in the communication are alarming: 5 200 workers lose their life as a result of work-related accidents per year. Throughout the EU there are about 4.8 million work-related accidents per year. About two thirds of accidents lead to an absence of more than three days at work and almost 14% of workers suffer more than one accident in a year. This means that around 158 million days’ work are lost annually, and nearly 300 000 workers will get various degrees of permanent disabilities resulting from a workplace-related accident or disease every year. It is estimated that the total cost to the economy amounts to between 2.6% and 3.8% of GNP. These data are evidence of the high economic cost of not having appropriate social policy in place, which constitutes a major obstacle to attaining the strategic objective of full employment.
The framework directive could go further and could be more practical...
The proposals tabled by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats are unacceptable."@en1
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