Download or read book Working Safely in Small Enterprises in Europe written by David Walters and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promoting Health and Safety in European Small and Medium sized Enterprises SMEs written by European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises SMEs written by George Boustras and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety is an important aspect of everyday business operations. It can have an impact on the operations of an enterprise as well as the wellbeing of the workers. Literature shows that SMEs face extra problems in this area due to limited resources and lack of knowledge. A potential accident on the premises, in many cases, has devastating consequences. SMEs make up the vast majority of private companies in the EU and beyond. Despite the importance of the issue, the information found in literature is scattered and often not aimed at SMEs. This book aims to gather the latest information and become the full reference point for designing and adopting an appropriate safety strategy for SMEs.
Download or read book Micro and Small Enterprises OSH written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is looking into safety and health in Europe's micro and small enterprises (MSEs). MSEs are the foundation of the EU economy and employ around half of its workforce. However, the safety and health of workers in MSEs are not always well protected. Owners and managers in MSEs can find occupational safety and health (OSH) management challenging because of a lack of resources or know-how. More needs to be done to recognise the specific OSH challenges faced by these companies and to identify practical solutions.
Download or read book Improving Occupational Safety and Health in SMEs written by European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) are important contributors to European competitiveness, with most new jobs in Europe being created by micro-enterprises with up to six employees. However, they also face particular difficulties including effective management of safety and health and Member States have set up measures to assist entrepreneurship. The Agency has carried out several important projects to improve occupational safety and health in SMEs, including special funding schemes of good safety and health practice in SMEs initiated by the European Parliament and the European Commission. As part of these efforts the Agency has also made a study of practical examples of successful occupational safety and health assistance services to SMEs.
Download or read book Promoting Health and Safety in European Small and Medium sized Enterprises SMEs written by European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge:1. Transnational projects - 2. National projects - 3. Index of projects by sector - 4. Appendix.
Download or read book Promoting Health and Safety in European Small and Medium sized Enterprises SMEs written by European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and published by European Communities. This book was released on 2005 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains information on the SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) funding scheme organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for 2003-2004. The scheme provided funding for initiatives that encourages SMEs throughout Europe to adopt good occupational safety and health practices, focusing on training for accident prevention and avoidance of health risks; information provision and communication issues; and identifying good practices to reduce dangers to health and safety. Details are given for 14 transnational projects and 26 national projects.
Download or read book Health and Safety in Small Enterprises written by David Walters and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety and Health in Micro and Small Enterprises in the EU written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This executive summary presents the findings from a research project investigating the policies, strategies, methods and tools used by intermediaries, authorities and occupational safety and health (OSH) institutions to reach out to and support micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in managing OSH, constituting part of the wider Safe Small and Micro Enterprises (SESAME) project. As found in the previous phases of the SESAME project, the institutional, socio-economic and regulatory context is found to have a strong impact on OSH in MSEs. Many MSEs face severe contextual challenges, such as competitive pressure, price competition and increasing fragmentation of production, although there is a huge variation among MSEs with regard to these factors. In addition, many MSEs often find themselves under pressure stemming from their weak position in the supply chain. These pressures translate into a vulnerable business model for many MSEs, with limited decision latitude and few economic and managerial resources that could be devoted to issues other than the survival of the business. Often these business vulnerabilities also put the workers in vulnerable positions, with non-standard employment, low levels of workplace training and precarious working conditions. The contextual factors, combined with few resources being devoted to topics such as OSH in MSEs, results in a large proportion of MSEs having a reactive approach to OSH, where they only rarely engage in proactive OSH initiatives and mainly react to incidents such as inspections, accidents or near accidents, or demands from employees or customers. Those external calls for action may lead to preventive actions to improve selected OSH factors, although they tend to focus mainly on safety and rarely on health issues. MSEs are often businesses struggling to survive, with little interest in OSH and often not reached by the more general OSH policies or by intermediaries. Even the more avid MSEs seem, in general, to be hard to reach, especially with general OSH information.
Download or read book Safety and Health in Micro and Small Enterprises in the EU written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the findings of a qualitative study of understandings and experiences of occupational safety and health (OSH) in 162 cases of micro and small firms selected from a range of economic sectors in nine EU Member States. Its aim was to present a 'view from the workplace' by exploring experiences and understandings of OSH within micro and small enterprises (MSEs) and the influence of contexts in which they are situated.
Download or read book Safety and Health in Micro and Small Enterprises in the EU written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides the final analysis from SESAME, a three-year (2014-2017), theoretically informed, policy-orientated and EU-comparative empirical research project on occupational safety and health (OSH) in micro and small enterprises (MSEs). A team of experienced researchers examined arrangements for OSH and their contexts in MSEs in nine EU Member States, and identified both the key challenges and success factors in terms of policies, strategies and practical solutions leading to improvements in OSH in these enterprises in Europe. The research provides a new, comparative and contextualised understanding of 'what works, for whom and in what circumstances', as well as evidence-based recommendations for the development of more efficient and effective policy programmes aimed at improving OSH in MSEs.
Download or read book The Promotion of Small and Medium sized Enterprises in Europe written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Within Reach written by David Walters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines regulatory and other strategies for improving chemical risk management in small enterprises in the European Union. This book considers what supports are necessary to secure the implementation of these strategies and is particularly concerned with the role of chemical product supply as envisaged by REACH.
Download or read book Promoting Health and Safety in European Small and Medium sized Enterprises SMEs written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europe for Safety and Health at Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The role of small and medium sized enterprises SMEs in Europe s economy written by Svetlana Shirobakina and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, University of Lincoln, course: B.A. European Business, language: English, abstract: The Lisbon European Council of March 2000 set the European Union a new strategic objective for the coming years:to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustained economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. It is considered that Europe’s competitiveness and economic progress is strong dependent on its small and medium-sized enterprises, which are the key-source for job creating as well as for searching for new business ideas and innovative solutions, its main driver for entrepreneurship. For this reason, the European Council endorsed the “think small first” principle as one way to progress towards the Lisbon objectives. The idea of the small business has captured the imagination of the public and politicians over past years. They agree in the point that to meet the challenge of new integrated Europe requires a better business environment within the Internal Market, including the lightest possible administrative and regulatory burdens for small businesses and a better access to finance resources as well as creating of simple and effective legislation. It also requires a revolution in attitudes to entrepreneurship and to risk-taking processes, which will allow viewing failure as a part of experience, as an “opportunity to learn” from mistakes. They also emphasise the fact that small enterprises are normally more sensitive to changes in the business environment than large firms. They are the first to suffer if weighed down with excessive bureaucracy and creating new administrative burdens. And they are the first to flourish from initiatives such as decrease in taxation rate and promotion. My essay aims to answer the question to what extent the EU’s main market integration initiatives address the needs of SME’s and what should be done on the way to developing strong, competitive SMEs which would use all benefits from the Single European Market. It is important to define what we mean by SMEs before proceeding to answer these questions. For the purpose of this essay, SMEs are defined as non-subsidiary, independent firms, which employ less than 250 employees. We have to take into account the fact that this number may vary across national statistical systems. [...]
Download or read book Worker Representation and Health and Safety in Small Enterprises in Europe written by David Walters and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this paper is to review the role that representative worker participation can play in contributing to better health and safety performance in small enterprises. The relevance of representative participation to health and safety in small enterprises is addressed and the challenges that the sector poses are discussed. Using a number of examples, including legislative approaches, trade union initiatives and joint trade union employer schemes in various countries, the paper explores some of the ways in which such challenges have been tackled.
