http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/index/uneThematique.asp?idThema=5 Health / Safety en http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=664&idThema=5 19/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=664&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=664&idThema=5 The DGCCRF (French General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control) has recently published the results of a 2006 monitoring programme that tested for the presence of... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=662&idThema=5 15/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=662&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=662&idThema=5 France’s new Employment Code, which has taken the Ministry of Employment over three years to draw up, came into force on 1st May. The new Code is designed to be simpler and therefore easier to... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=647&idThema=5 05/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=647&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=647&idThema=5 In France, discussions regarding the classification of psychosocial disorders as occupational diseases have reignited the debate on how the occupational disease tables are compiled. The process lacks... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=633&idThema=5 14/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=633&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=633&idThema=5 A decision handed down by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on 1st April has annulled the decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=627&idThema=5 08/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=627&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=627&idThema=5 Forty bottles of red wine bought within the European Union were recently tested for traces of pesticides by the NGO Pesticides Action Network Europe (PAN-Europe). The wines tested came from France,... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=620&idThema=5 02/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=620&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=620&idThema=5 Following natural disasters, such as floods, the consumption of psychotropic drugs increases. This is the conclusion of a report by France’s Health Watch Institute (Institut de veille sanitaire -... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=598&idThema=5 18/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=598&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=598&idThema=5 On 6th March 2008 the Italian cabinet adopted a draft decree on industrial accidents. Following the Thyssengrupp tragedy in Turin last December, which caused the death of six workers, the Italian... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=591&idThema=5 13/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=591&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=591&idThema=5 Less than three months before the start of the pre-registration phase for chemical substances produced in amounts of over one tonne a year, companies still do not have full information on the rules... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=578&idThema=5 03/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=578&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=578&idThema=5 Women who live in areas with large amounts of night-time illumination are more likely to develop breast cancer than those who live in areas where nocturnal darkness http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=568&idThema=5 22/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=568&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=568&idThema=5 At an industry conference on Monday 11th February, the European metals industry criticised the “huge financial burden” entailed by meeting the REACh (1) regulations, quoting figures above a billion... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=564&idThema=5 20/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=564&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=564&idThema=5 Italy has the sorry record of 832,037 industrial accidents, not counting the 200,000 injuries to illegal http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=553&idThema=5 12/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=553&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=553&idThema=5 Finnish researchers have concluded that advising workers to bend at the knees and keep their backs straight when lifting heavy loads, or any other type of training, does not avoid the problem of back... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=545&idThema=5 06/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=545&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=545&idThema=5 A team of researchers has uncovered the mechanisms that link work stress with coronary heart disease. Published in the European Heart Journal on 23rd January, the article is part of the large-scale... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=543&idThema=5 05/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=543&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=543&idThema=5 On 25th January, the European Commission presented its proposal to review the toy safety directive http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=535&idThema=5 30/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=535&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=535&idThema=5 The cost of chemical related diseases affecting Californians totals $2.6 billion (€1.8 billion), according to a study by the Universities of Berkley and http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=528&idThema=5 24/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=528&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=528&idThema=5 The European Commission would be happy to limit its actions to occupational accidents, but it is under pressure from Euro MPs to introduce legislation covering musculoskeletal disorders and... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=526&idThema=5 22/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=526&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=526&idThema=5 Four chemicals may soon be banned by the 2001 Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POP). At a meeting in Geneva (Switzerland) from 19th to 23rd November, the European Union put... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=505&idThema=5 07/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=505&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=505&idThema=5 Can welding damage your sense of smell? In a study published in the American magazine Neurology, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania screened 43 welders employed in maintaining the bridges... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=497&idThema=5 03/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=497&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=497&idThema=5 From 2008 European chemical manufacturers will be able to use new internationally harmonised labelling for chemicals, though this option will soon become http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=494&idThema=5 19/12/2007 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=494&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=494&idThema=5 The International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer agency of the WHO, has just classified night working as “probably carcinogenic to humans” (group 2A). IARC’s decision is based on the...