Traduction de «évaluer l’ergonomie d'un lieu de travail » (Français → Anglais) :

The appropriate frequency for the Member States to draw up these reports and submit them to the Commission should be five years; the first report should, exceptionally, cover a longer period; the structure of the reports should be consistent to facilitate their exploitation; they should be drawn up on the basis of a questionnaire drafted by the Commission after consulting the Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work and include relevant information on the preventive efforts deployed in the Member States so as to allow the Commission, taking into account any relevant findings of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work ...[+++]and of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, to adequately assess how the legislation works in practice.

The Commission Communication on the ‘Evaluation of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work’, prepared in accordance with Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 and based on an external evaluation carried out in 2001, as well as on the contributions of the Administrative Board and of the Commission Advisory Committee for Safety and Health at Work, underlines the need to amend Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 in order to maintain and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Agency and its management structures.

1. Welcomes the Commission's analysis of the implementation of health and safety legislation and its assessment of how the directives are being applied in the workplace and looks forward to seeing the Commission's evaluation of the application of the remaining individual directives; notes the decrease in the number of accidents at the workplace as a positive result, and that measures to protect health and safety in the workplace contribute to better working conditions and promote productivity, competitiveness and employment; regrets, however, the belated publication of the Commission's report, as the Member States" national implementat ...[+++]ion reports should already have been transmitted in 1997; calls for future evaluation reports to better assess the extent to which health and safety legislation has been complied with in practice in the Member States;

6. On musculo-skeletal problems, which are suffered by over half the people affected by work-related complaints in the EU and particularly older workers, urges the Commission to propose a comprehensive Directive on workplace ergonomics, to review and improve the implementation of the Display Screen Equipment Directive (90/270/EEC) and to propose amendments to the Manual Handling Directive (90/269/EEC), especially regarding repetitive handling of small loads; furthermore, gender considerations should be mainstreamed into policies and practices of risk assessment and workplace design;

The Group drew on a report compiled for the Commission on "economic appraisal of European health and safety at work legislation", which analyses the current procedures and available methods for assessing the economic impact (both costs and benefits) of health and safety legislation at European, national and company level and puts forward proposals for practical impact assessment models at European and national levels, including a procedure specifically designed for European Directives.

This document must show, in particular, that the risks run by workers at the workplace have been determined and assessed, that appropriate measures have been taken and that the workplace is designed, operated and maintained in line with safety requirements.