Traduction de «Milieu de travail soucieux du risque » (Français → Anglais) :

5. Supports in its resolution of 20 September 2001 on harassment at the workplace, the "global approach to well-being at work" including all kinds of risks such as stress, harassment, bullying and violence ; this echoes the judgement of the Court of Justice as to the wide interpretation of "working environment" (Article 137(1) TEC); however, the Commission should recognise gender as important in this context and be more concrete by, for example, proposing legislation on workplace bullying; the global approach should also include a commitment to extend strategic action to address or combat future risks posed by new processes or changes ...[+++] to existing ones;

5. Supports the ‘global approach to well-being at work’ including all kinds of risks such as stress, harassment, bullying and violence; this echoes the judgement of the Court of Justice as to the wide interpretation of ‘working environment’ (Article 137(1) TEC); however, the Commission should recognise gender as important in this context and be more concrete by, for example, proposing legislation on workplace bullying; the global approach should also include a commitment to extend strategic action to address or combat future risks posed by new processes or changes to existing ones;

16. Welcomes the idea of encouraging the development of guides on how to apply existing Directives - which should be accompanied by better training material and information on what works, especially for SMEs, in high-risk sectors and situations where there are specific, persistent and recurrent risks, and take account of gender, age and cultural factors; requests more detail as to the "assessments.at company level" of implementation; underlines that the social partners ...[+++]should not only be involved in work on these guides but also, more systematically and comprehensively, in the implementation process itself; asks the Commission to develop special programmes to this end for the candidate countries with a view to encouraging the actual implementation of working environment legislation at company level in these countries;

(3a) Whereas existing national health and safety provisions providing protection against the risks caused by machinery must be approximated to ensure free movement on the market of machinery without lowering existing justified levels of protection in the Member States; whereas the provisions of this directive concerning the design and construction of machinery, essential for a safer working environment, shall be accompanied by specific provisions concerning the prevention of certain risks to which workers can be exposed at work, as well as by provisions based on the organisation of safety of workers in the working environment;

These are the right to know about known or foreseeable hazards in the workplace, the right to participate in identifying and resolving job related safety and health problems; and the right to refuse dangerous work if the employee has reasonable cause to believe that a situation constitutes a danger to him or her or to another employee.

I won't say that it is more or less risky than a mining operation or a forestry operation or truck driving or anything else because I think all workplaces have some risk, but I don't want to minimize that it is a unique work environment.