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391 European Commission Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs 
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Guide to application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, Edition 2.2 – October 2019, p174 (Machinery 
directive annex 1, 1.1.6, Official Journal of the European Union, L157/37 
392 EU-OSHA: COVID-19: Back to the workplace - Adapting workplaces and protecting workers, 2020, 
https://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/covid-19-back-workplace-adapting-workplaces-and-protecting-workers  
393 European Commission: Guidelines of the Commission on seasonal workers in the EU Factsheet on practical 
examples and best practices, 2020 
394 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work: E-guide to managing stress and psychosocial risks; 
https://osha.europa.eu/en/tools-and-resources/e-guides/e-guide-managing-stress-and-psychosocial-risks  
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2020: Healthy workers, thriving companies - a practical guide to 
wellbeing at work, 2018. https://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/healthy-workers-thriving-companies-practical-
guide-wellbeing-work  
ISO 2021: ISO 45003 Occupational health and safety management - Psychological health and safety at work - 
Guidelines for managing psychosocial risks. https://www.iso.org/standard/64283.html  
EU Commission, 2018: Promoting mental health in the workplace. Guidance to implementing a comprehensive 
approach. https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=738&langId=en&pubId=8098&furtherPubs=yes  
ILO – International Labour Organization, Stress Prevention at Work Checkpoints. Practical improvements for 
stress prevention in the workplace, 2012. https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/WCMS_168053/lang--
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management : a resource for employer and worker representatives, https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/43966  
Senior Labour Inspectors Committee (SLIC), 2018: Labour inspectors' guide for assessing the quality of risk 
assessments and risk management measures with regard to prevention of psychosocial risks, here  
395 Two EU-OSHA databases present several hundred guidance documents on Dangerous Substances 
https://osha.europa.eu/en/themes/dangerous-substances/practical-tools-dangerous-substances and 
Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD): https://osha.europa.eu/en/themes/musculoskeletal-disorders/practical-tools-
musculoskeletal-disorders 
396 Examples of such tools and database are: EU-OSHA’s Online Interactive Risk Assessment tool (OIRA) with 
more than 250 tools and more than 180,000 risk assessments https://osha.europa.eu/en/tools-and-resources/oira  
397 See the series of EU-OSHA reports on ‘Safety and health in micro and small enterprises in the EU: 
https://osha.europa.eu/en/themes/safety-and-health-micro-and-small-enterprises 
Descriptions of the good examples are available at: https://osha.europa.eu/en/tools-and-
publications/publications/safety-andhealth-micro-and-small-enterprises-eu-policy-practice/view  
398 European Commission / Senior Labour inspectors committee: Guidance for National Labour Inspectors on 
addressing risks from worker exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) on construction sites, October 2016 
399  Two of many examples: SME United, (Employers Federation)