Occupational safety and health in Europe - state and trends 2023 
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA 9 
Acknowledgements 
EU-OSHA wishes to thank the European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social 
Affairs and Inclusion for their contributions and support, in particular Matthias Fritz.  
Thanks to Jukka Takala, Subas Neupane and Päivi Hämäläinen for the provision of their estimates of 
the global burden of disease. EU-OSHA also thanks Frank Pega and Natalie Momen from the World 
Health Organization (WHO) for the kind provision of an extract of EU27 data from its Occupational 
Burden of Disease database. Joana Soares and Réka Zayzon have meticulously checked data and 
calculations of this report. 
Lead author: Lothar Lieck (EU-OSHA) 
Co-authors and contributors: Ioannis Anyfantis, Xabier Irastorza, Lorenzo Munar, Birgit Müller, 
Malgorzata Milczarek, William Cockburn, Andrew Smith (EU-OSHA).  
 
 
Find more up- to-date information and data on occupational safety and health in Europe in the OSH 
Barometer data visualisation tool: https://visualisation.osha.europa.eu/osh-barometer 
The tool informs on a large range of OSH indicators, such as work -related accidents, diseases and 
wellbeing as well as working conditions and prevention. It also presents the national OSH authorities 
and strategies, economic and sector information, and enforcement capacity. 
You can visualise and compare country data, gener ate graphics and download a report of all data per 
country. The OSH Barometer is updated regularly with new indicators, data, publications  and features.