text: When looking at the work of global institutions during the past two to three decades, many important 
  **agreements, conventions, government actions and global business**programmes have been 
  negotiated, agreed and issued. The objectives and necessary measures at a global level have been 
  made much more concrete by these efforts. OSH and working conditions are on the agenda of these 
  organisations, and general and concrete targets and indicators have been set. The**task is the**
  **implementation of these principles and programmes**in every region and country of the world in a 
  way that it reaches all workplaces. 
  
  **Consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic**
  
  The outbreak of the**COVID-19 pandemic**in 2020 required exceptional measures and quick reactions 
  on many unanticipated challenges for OSH. The infrastructures — staff, material, measures — were to 
  a large extent not available or prepared to cope with an acute pandemic of that size. EU-OSHA reacted 
  with several guidance documents for employers and workers, that is, the ‘COVID-19: Guidance for the 
  workplace’ and the guidance ‘COVID-19: Back to the workplace - Adapting workplaces and protecting 
  workers’. 
  
  In the**EU OSH Strategic Framework 2021 to 2027**, the impact of a pandemic or similar threat was 
  addressed by one overall objective, namely ‘Increasing preparedness – responding rapidly to threats’. 
  The strategy aims at employing the preventive experience gathered during the pandemic to prepare for 
  potential future similar threats. Enterprises, sector organisations and health institutions have**developed**
  **proven workplace and sector-specific risk assessments and prevention measures**; there is 
  experience with test procedures and timelines for quarantine and return-to-work and use of personal 
  protective equipment. A major indirect impact on working conditions is the strongly increased share of 
  remote work from home. 