text: The**EU and its predecessors**have enshrined health and safety of workers in their**founding treaties**. 
  Already in 1951, it was stated in Article 3 of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) Treaty 
  that*‘The institutions of the Community shall, within the limits of their respective powers, in the common*
  *interest … promote improved working conditions and an improved standard of living for the workers in*
  *each of the industries for which it is responsible …’*. 337 During the development of the European 
  institutions and the EU from those years until today, references to working conditions and safety and 
  health were always part of the treaties, and also in the latest Treaty of Lisbon from 2009.338 