Occupational safety and health in Europe - state and trends 2023 
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA 7 
List of tables 
Table 1: Psychosocial risks, Top countries ‘All Sectors’ and ‘Human health and social work’ – ESENER 
2019 ....................................................................................................................................................... 26 
Table 3: Physical risks present in enterprises EU27 (in %) – ESENER 2014 and 2019 ...................... 40 
Table 4: Physical risks (in %) – EWCS 2005, 2010 and 2015 .............................................................. 41 
Table 5: Physical risks (in %) – LFS Ad hoc Survey ............................................................................. 41 
Table 6: Physical health risks, Sectors and exposures – EWCS 2015 ................................................. 42 
Table 7: Physical health risks, Ergonomics – EWCS 2015 ................................................................... 44 
Table 8: Physical health risks, Ergonomics – EWCS 2015 ................................................................... 44 
Table 9: Posted and seasonal workers – Eurostat ................................................................................ 48 
Table 10: Types of work: in, at and from home ..................................................................................... 50 
Table 11: Accidents at work and health-related work problems, women and men – Eurostat ............. 56 
Table 12: Time spent for household and family care, men/women –  Eurostat .................................... 57 
Table 13: Non-fatal and fatal accidents at work – incidence rate by age – Eurostat ............................ 57 
Table 14: Crossovers of health and safety risks among groups of workers (2010) –  DG for Internal 
policies, policy department .................................................................................................................... 58 
Table 15: Accidents at work by physical activity 2019 – Eurostat ......................................................... 63 
Table 16: Incidence rates of non-fatal accidents per sector in 2010 and 2019 (EU27) ........................ 66 
Table 17: Non-fatal accidents estimated via coefficient of fatal accidents, 4 benchmark countries  ..... 67 
Table 18: Self-reported work accidents during the last 12 months (EU27) – LFS Ad hoc modules ..... 68 
Table 19: People reporting an accident by group of occupations (ISCO) – LFS Ad hoc 2020 ............. 69 
Table 20: Incidence rates of fatal accidents per sector in 2010 and 2019 (EU27)  ............................... 71 
Table 21: Severity of accidents in the EU27 in 2019 (sectors A and C-N) ........................................... 72 
Table 22: Development of recognised occupational diseases in the EU 2013-2019 ............................ 74 
Table 23: Life expectancy by age and sex - in years at the age of 65 .................................................. 78 
Table 24: People reporting work-related health problems by group of occupations (ISCO) – LFS Ad hoc 
2020 ....................................................................................................................................................... 80 
Table 25: Examples of fractions of diseases attributable to work (AF) – WHO/ILO ............................. 82 
Table 26: Summary Burden of diseases EU27, Global deaths – WHO/ILO 2016, ............................... 85 
Table 27: Summary Burden of diseases table DALYs WHO/ILO ......................................................... 85 
Table 28: Opportunities and risks of ICT-based mobile work – Eurofound ......................................... 105 
Table 29: Digitalisation and OSH discussed – ESENER 2019 ........................................................... 106 
Table 30: Production and consumption of chemicals by hazard class in the EU in 2019 –  Eurostat . 107