• Date 2023-11-21

Occupational safety and health (OSH) event

Event Details

City: Madrid

Country: Spain

Organisation: INSST - National Institute for Safety and Health at Work

Date: 20 - 21/11/2023

Description

EU experts discussed occupational cancer prevention measures, one of the priorities of both Spanish and European occupational safety and health strategies.

The Roadmap on Carcinogens initiative (RoC) (https://www.roadmaponcarcinogens.eu/) has been running since 2016, to raise awareness of the risks arising from exposure to carcinogens in the workplace and to promote exchange of good practices between companies and organisations. Since its inception, the number of organisations committed to the Roadmap on Carcinogens has been increasing, with most of the governments of the successive presidencies of the Council of the EU joining the Roadmap, the most recent being the Spanish incorporation in March 2022.
The four main objectives of the Roadmap on Carcinogens were discussed in depth and an overview of the work on the 12 RoC challenges was given.

EU-OSHA presented – for the first time in public – the results of the Workers’ Exposure Survey on Cancer Risk Factors in Europe.

The event was held in both Spanish and English.

Further information (Event website, Event web streaming (https://www.youtube.com/@INSST/streams), Programme) can be found here: https://osha.europa.eu/en/oshevents/preventing-work-related-cancer