In 2020-22, CESI will be a partner of EU-OSHA’s newest ‘Healthy workplaces’ awareness-raising campaign. Having been involved in several previous ‘Healthy workplaces’ campaign editions in the past, CESI will now participate for the fifth time in Europe’s biggest awareness raising campaign on occupational health and safety. The 2020-22 edition is themed ‘Lighten the load: Tackling work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) improves the lives of workers and makes good business sense.’

Existing since 2000, EU-OSHA’s Healthy Workplaces campaigns typically run for two years and are backed by the EU institutions and social partners such as CESI. At the national level, they are coordinated by a network of focal points of EU-OSHA.

CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger said:

“As a trade union confederation, CESI has for long worked to promote adequate health and safety measures for all workers. This concerns not only the management of occupational psychosocial risks or dangerous substances, but especially also the handling of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). At CESI, we believe that this Healthy Workplaces Campaign edition brings to the front an occupational hazard that is still underestimated, despite being a more and more common cause of disability, leave and early retirement – both among blue-collar and office workers.”

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