The study serves as a background document for the European Commission and is conducted in close cooperation with the ZEW Mannheim. The main tasks are to define the concept of competitiveness at the micro, meso, and macro levels of economic activity, to establish a set of indicators that is...

The objective of this report is to provide an overview of the challenges facing the occupational safety and health (OSH) community in the context of the application of the vibration directive. The situation in six member states: Belgium, Germany, Spain, Finland, France and Poland, is examined

To underpin occupational safety and health (OSH) education in schools and colleges it is necessary to formalize it in curriculum requirements. This report reviews how the member states are including OSH and risk education in their national curricula. The report shows that there is considerable...