Occupational safety and health in Europe - state and trends 2023 
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA 138 
Eurostat has developed under the lead of UNECE a framework to assess the quality of employment in 
its multiple facets.497 Eurostat describes this framework as set of 68 indicators 498 on seven dimensions 
‘that address employment quality from the perspective of the employed person. Its design also facilitates 
international comparisons.’499 OSH is covered under the section ‘Safety’ and is based on four indicators 
and includes two outcome and two risk indicators: 1) Fatal occupational injuries / Number of fatal 
accidents at work (excluding traffic accidents); 2) Non- fatal occupational injuries / Number of non- fatal 
accidents at work ; 3) Exposure to physical health risk factors ; and 4) Exposure to mental health risk 
factors. Eurostat implements the OSH parts of this framework by it s ESAW and by the OSH-related ad 
hoc modules to the LFS, called ‘Accidents at work and other work -related health problems’ (surveys in 
2007, 2013 and 2020).  
For more detailed monitoring at EU level, DG EMPL/ACSH and EU-OSHA developed a structural model 
that uses four groupings: Generic information on the basics of the OSH systems and on major context 
factors like age or sectoral structure, main policies for the Steering of OSH , an overview on relevant 
Working conditions and Prevention, and Outcomes, that is, accidents, diseases and wellbeing, and 
some elements of the  OSH infrastructure and monitoring capacity . Currently, the OSH Barometer 
works with 16 quantitative and qualitative indicators in these four groupings. Some of these indicators 
are purely descriptive, like the short  descriptions of OSH  authorities, OSH institutions or OSH -related 
surveys, and others allow qualitative comparisons of structures and policies, for example,  the indicator 
on ‘National strategies’ or ‘Social dialogue’. Many indicators, for example, on working conditions or work 
accidents, are based on quantitative data from survey s and statistics. These indicators allow a 
comparison between sectors, occupations, types of enterprises, countries, for example.  
 
CHAPTERS INDICATORS 
 
Generic information Indicator: OSH authorities (descriptive) 
 Indicator: Economic and sector profile (quantitative) 
 Indicator: Workforce profile (quantitative) 
 
Steering of OSH  
 Indicator: Regulation (descriptive) 
 Indicator: National strategies (descriptive)  
 Indicator: Social dialogue (descriptive, composite indicator) 
 
Working conditions and prevention 
  Indicator: Working conditions (quantitative) 
 Indicator: Prevention in companies (quantitative) 
  Indicator: Worker involvement (quantitative) 
  Indicator: OSH culture and health awareness (quantitative) 
  
Accidents, diseases and wellbeing  
  Indicator: Work accidents (quantitative) 
 Indicator: Work-related diseases (quantitative) 
  Indicator: Health perception of workers (quantitative)