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At the moment, the EU is facing an ageing population, with the trend towards longer working lives and the need to raise healthy life expectancy. Inequalities have been observed in life expectancy between different socioprofessional categories and in the level of hardship at work. Every year 168 000 European citizens die as a result of work-related accidents or diseases, while 7 million are injured in work-related accidents. Labour inspections play a vital role through education, persuasion and encouragement in terms of verifying the enforcement of the current legislation and the level of prevention, in particular by ascertaining compliance with decent working conditions for vulnerable categories of workers or in occupations in which undeclared work may occur.
Member States must guarantee high standards in the instruction and ongoing training of labour inspectors, monitor regular medical examinations, evaluate their results with a view to ensuring that workers’ state of health meets the requirements of the workplace, and tighten the sanctions against companies not complying with their obligations concerning workers’ fundamental rights. I call on the European Commission to draw up good practice guides in this area, stressing the need for Member States to organise exchanges of good practice with a view to improving workers’ efficiency in the workplace."@en1
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