Tag: EU-OSHA

Online Economy

The Online Platform Economy Offers Few Worker Safety Protections

By William C. Schillaci Sep 20, 2018 Special Topics in Safety Management

Updated: Sep 20, 2018

The online platform economy is an exploding phenomenon, which means the number of people performing work through the platform is also growing at an extraordinary rate. It is also clear that workers in the online platform economy are rarely protected by regulation, and therefore, the hazards to which they are exposed are often more severe […]

Small business

EU-OSHA Wraps Up Small Business Research Project

By William C. Schillaci Jul 3, 2018 EHS Management

Updated: Jul 3, 2018

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) recently issued its fourth and final report on a 3-year (2014–2017) research project intended to identify the state of occupational safety and health (OSH) in micro and small enterprises (MSE) in nine EU-member states.