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New Roadmap on Carcinogens website goes live

  • Date 2024-09-16

A completely renewed Roadmap on Carcinogens website https://stopcarcinogensatwork.eu/, launched in September 2024 (see EU-OSHA press release, 12/09/2024), provides concrete answers to questions from employers, employees and OSH-experts related to working with carcinogenic agents.

The tool helps employers and workers to assess whether carcinogens are relevant for their work and points at adequate risk management measures for sectors and their occupations. Starting from the sector or occupation, or a carcinogenic substance (if known), it helps identifying whether there is a potential risk (carcinogen + exposure). From there, it proposes targeted solutions how to protect employees, and gives information on the legal provisions. The proposed solutions follow the STOP-principle (starting with substitution, technical measures, organisational measures and personal protection as a last resort). One of the main goals of the website is to make the growing volume of information on carcinogens accessible, within the context of work. All necessary information is provided in short and easy to understand factsheets.

About the Roadmap on Carcinogens:

The Roadmap on Carcinogens is a voluntary EU action scheme with the aim of protecting workers from exposure to carcinogens in the workplace through awareness raising and by exchanging knowledge and good practices. It started in 2016 at the Amsterdam Conference on preventing work related cancer, when European organisations joined together for a voluntary four-year action scheme aimed to raise awareness on the risks related to workers’ exposure to carcinogens. Within Challenge 2.1 on ‘Substitution strategies’, the Roadmap aimed to collect and disseminate information on successful substitutions, to link with experts on substitution, and help understand how frontrunner companies have substituted substances of concern. This effort is supported by the SUBSPORTplus database.

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