text: During the last two decades, nearly all EU Member States have developed strategic approaches, mostly 
  called**‘National OSH Strategies’**or ‘National OSH Plans’. In most cases, these strategies have helped 
  to identify and mitigate recognised structural weaknesses of the national OSH system, for example, low 
  levels of implementation of existing legislation, insufficient reporting and monitoring tools, or specific 
  sector or risk-related actions, and finally also regulatory improvements. The EU OSH strategies and 
  OSH strategic frameworks have often been used as orientation for objectives and actions of national 
  strategies; the first started in 2002 (‘Communication from the Commission - Adapting to change in work 
  and society: a new Community strategy on health and safety at work 2002-2006’). The latest**EU**
  **Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2021-2027**puts the focus on changes; it is titled 
  ‘Occupational safety and health in a changing world of work’ and focuses on three key objectives for the 
  coming years:*(1) anticipating and managing change in the new world of work brought about by the*
  
  European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA 
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