The French agency Anact has launched a free online game that helps employees and managers learn to analyse and improve workplace situations. The game, “Cap sur les conditions de travail”, uses an investigative format to help participants uncover concrete problem areas.
France studied Spain’s heat-at-work policy this week during a visit by Minister Farandou to Madrid — automatic adjustment of working hours, climate leave and stop-work authority for prevention officers stand out as key differences with France.
A study by the Bertelsmann Foundation and IW finds that psychological strain among German apprentices is strongly linked to training dropout, with significant costs for companies.
US trade publication ISHN calls for “whole-person risk management”: safety professionals should explicitly factor in fatigue and workers’ circumstances outside the job, since these shape incident risk just as much as procedures on the floor.
EU-OSHA has published a discussion paper based on a survey of European occupational physicians about their role in occupational safety compliance, flagging the ageing workforce as an urgent concern.
The International Organization for Standardization has published ISO 45010:2026, a standard providing guidance for employers to support employees experiencing menstruation- and menopause-related symptoms.
A social court in Munich ruled that an employee who slipped on spilled massage oil while heading to a workplace massage session could not claim statutory accident insurance coverage, since participation was voluntary.
Workplaces have traditionally been designed largely around a male norm, with women’s biological life stages — from fertility to menopause
The Higher Administrative Court (Oberverwaltungsgericht) of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has ruled that a civil servant who was stung by a bee while cycling to work is entitled to have the incident recognised as a work-related accident. The ruling clarifies how far the definition of a work-related accident extends when personal motives, such as the choice to cycle, coincide with the regular commute to work.
The Landesarbeitsgericht (LAG) Thüringen, a regional labour court in Thuringia, Germany, has clarified in a recent ruling the distinction between “night work” and “night shift work.” The ruling has implications for the interpretation of the night work prohibition under the German Maternity Protection Act (Mutterschutzgesetz, MuSchG).
