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Occupational health and safety Law is a field of Law where the
stagnation of European Social Law is most being felt. The European Union
Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020 was approved
in june 2014, and the fear of a throwback that dominated the legal doctrine
was confirmed, as the paradigm of the adaptation of the work to the worker
seems to be changing into the worker’s adaptation to the work.
Moreover, new challenges are presented to the field of
Occupational Health and Safety, due to emerging risk factors that create new
occupational risks, such as psychosocial risks, nanomaterial risks, aalcohol
and drug dependence, among others.
In the meanwhile, the European Union is challenged to present
instruments that guide the Members States in these issues and that offer
concrete solutions to the problems that arise in each Member State.
The answer might be global, as the broader concept of health
adopted by the World Health Organization seems to be most suitable to
solve the worker’s problems, as well as the International Labor
Organization’s Conventions.
But is it possible to transcend the European legal boarders and seek
for answers in those international organizations?
In any case, is it preferable, in this matter, to have a legislative or
hard law model, or, on the contrary, a self-regulation or soft law model?
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Costa, A. C. R. (2014). Is “Legal Globalization” the Solution for the Disorientation of Health and Safety at the Workplace Law?. In Católica Graduate Legal Research Conference 2014: Conference Proceedings, Lisboa, Portugal, 19-20 September. (pp. 200-218). Lisboa: Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa