Traduction de «Hygiène du travail » (Français → Anglais) :

basic knowledge of hygiene and good hygienic practices, and in particular industrial hygiene, slaughter, cutting and storage hygiene, hygiene of work;

Discussion on improvements in the labour market and on a better quality of work within the culture in which stable work was an underlying principle of labour law usually focuses more on what is now termed health in the workplace and used to be referred to as health and safety in the workplace.

This core of rules concerns the following matters: (i) maximum daily and weekly hours of work, rest periods, work on Sundays and night work; (ii) minimum paid holidays; (iii) minimum rates of pay, including overtime rates and allowances but excluding benefits provided for by private occupational schemes; (iv) the conditions of hiring out of workers, in particular the supply of workers by temporary employment businesses; (v) health, safety and hygiene at work; (vi) protective measures with regard to the working conditions of pregnant women or women who have recently given birth, children, young people and other groups enjoying specia ...[+++]l protection; (vii) equality of treatment between men and women and prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of colour, race, religion, opinions, national origin or social background.

Similarly, the Commission will be putting forward proposals for recommendations on : the economic factors to be considered in process control systems; prevention of back injuries; awareness of safety aspects in the design of farm buildings and electrical installations; improving safety in the sea fishing sector and a decision on a system for the rapid exchange of information on dangerous products, tools and equipment at the work place. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE The proposals for directives which the Commission intends to draw up in this sector deal with : - carcinogens; - protection against biological agents; - cadmium compoun ...[+++]ds; - the protection of agricultural workers exposed to certain perticides.

The European Community is determined to help reduce these figures over the next decade, which is why it is organizing a European Year on safety at work, to draw attention to the body of legal texts and to the work which has gone on at European level on the subject of health and safety at work and to highlight the work being done by public authorities, employers and workers to bring about a steady improvement in standards of safety.

- the list of terms and conditions of employment covered by the Directive will include: . minimum rates of pay; . minimum paid annual holidays; . maximum work periods and minimum rest periods; . the conditions of hiring-out of workers, in particular the supply of workers by temporary employment agencies; . health, safety and hygiene at work; . protective measures concerning pregnant women or women who have recently given birth, children and young people; . equality of treatment between men and women and other provisions on non-discrimination.