Occupational safety and health in Europe - state and trends 2023 
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particularly dangerous work environments li ke road maintenance, combined with better organisational 
measures; quality systems that promote continuous repair and maintenance of tools; regular instructions 
by safety representatives and safety coordinators, and guarantee of minimum safety standards of 
machines and products by European standards like CE and CEE. 
 
 
If an accident takes place, the technical and organisational measures were either not perfect for all 
conceivable situations or not fully implemented. Based on ESAW, Eurostat analysed the physical 
activities per sector that trigger non-fatal and fatal accidents at work in the EU27 (in 2019).127  
 
Table 14: Accidents at work by physical activity 2019 – Eurostat  
 
Note: Due to incomplete notifications of the ‘Physical Activity’, the percentages do not sum up to 100%. Also, the 
sums of the numbers are lower than the number of all reported work accidents.  
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