Establishing a European framework to promote a policy, at national and company level, taking better account of psychosocial risks at work is the objective of the European Prima-EF project which was presented in Rome on November 5. The European framework developed by this project should help spread best practices in terms of organization management, training, social responsibility and the promotion of quality of life at work. (Ref. 080921)
According to assessments by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin), stress at work affects 40 million people in the EU, i.e. 10% of European citizens. Social and health costs of stress, which lead to the most widespread occupational diseases, amount to almost €20 billion each year. And this should even get worse because of the economic crisis. Yet stress, burn-out syndrome or moral harassment are closely linked to organization of labor, as revealed
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