European Communities’ Health and Safety Legislation

This important new book presents the background to the modern programme of European Community initiatives, tracing the origins of a European policy on occupational health and safety, and looking at the progressively expanding ambitions of Commission Action Programmes in this field. It brings the picture up to date to the measures adopted within the framework of the Community Charter of Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, and includes consideration of the important ‘Framework Directives’ 80/1107/EEC and 89/391/EEC. Full texts of all the relevant instruments making up the European Communities’ Health and Safety Legislation are included, making this the most comprehensive work currently available on the fundamentally important area of occupational health and safety at the European Community level.