{"id":1227,"date":"2018-04-16T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1227"},"modified":"2018-04-16T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:21:42","slug":"il-kummissjoni-ewropea-tishaq-ghal-protezzjoni-ahjar-ghall-haddiema-kontra-l-kimici","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/il-kummissjoni-ewropea-tishaq-ghal-protezzjoni-ahjar-ghall-haddiema-kontra-l-kimici\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission seeks better protection for workers against chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1218\" src=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meusac-min-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3840\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meusac-min-1.jpg 5760w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meusac-min-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meusac-min-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meusac-min-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meusac-min-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5760px) 100vw, 5760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission\u00a0is taking another important step to protect workers in the European Union\u00a0(EU)\u00a0from workplace-related cancer as well as other health problems.\u00a0The Commission\u00a0is proposing\u00a0to limit workers&#8217; exposure to five cancer-causing chemicals.\u00a0This is\u00a0in addition to the 21 substances that have already been limited or proposed to be limited since the beginning of the Commission\u2019s\u00a0mandate\u00a0in 2014.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visualisation.osha.europa.eu\/osh-costs\">Data<\/a>\u00a0compiled by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/osha.europa.eu\/en\">European Agency for Safety and Health at Work<\/a>\u00a0shows that cancer\u00a0is the first cause of work-related deaths. 52% of annual work-related deaths\u00a0across the EU\u00a0are due to cancer, compared to 24% due to circulatory illnesses and 2% due to injuries.\u00a0This is in comparison to the global estimate\u00a0where\u00a027% of work-related deaths are a result of cancer.\u00a0In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/visualisation.osha.europa.eu\/osh-costs\">Malta<\/a>, 26.13% of work related deaths are caused by cancer.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Exposure to certain chemical agents at work can cause cancer. While cancer is a complex disease and certain causal factors are difficult to identify, it is clear that cancers caused by exposure to chemical substances in the workplace can be prevented by reducing or eliminating these exposures.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More information may be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_IP-18-2662_en.htm\">here<\/a>.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The European Commission\u00a0is taking another important step to protect workers in the European Union\u00a0(EU)\u00a0from workplace-related cancer as well as other health problems.\u00a0The Commission\u00a0is proposing\u00a0to limit workers&#8217; exposure to five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1218,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[54],"issuem_issue_categories":[14],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1227\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}