text: The need for better information and data is well known, as the**EU Strategy 2007 to 2012**underlined: 
  *‘to better identify and assess potential risks by doing more research, exchanging knowledge and*
  *applying results in practice; - to develop monitoring tools to track progress; ….*432 The**EU Strategic**
  **Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020**defined seven key objectives, where key 
  objective 6 requests better data:*‘Improving statistical data collection to have better evidence and*
  *developing monitoring tools’.*433 
  
  The most recent**EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2021-2027**puts the focus 
  on changes, with the title*‘Occupational safety and health in a changing world of work’*.434 It emphasises 
  the value of science-based evidence by stating:*‘Research and data collection, both at EU and national*
  *level, are a pre-condition for the prevention of work-related diseases and accidents. Scientific advice*
  *and the latest technological developments feed into OSH legislation and policy.’*
  
  These objectives show that good — and often more and better — evidence and monitoring tools are 
  needed to understand all aspects of safety and health at work — as a pre-condition for priority setting 
  and effective preventive actions. Consequently, in their national OSH strategies, a good number of 
  Member States have agreed on provision of better data as a major target. 435 