{"id":17365,"date":"2024-04-26T16:26:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T14:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=17365"},"modified":"2024-04-26T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T14:26:51","slug":"28-april-2024-world-day-for-safety-and-health-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=17365","title":{"rendered":"28 April 2024 \u2013 World Day for Safety and Health at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Every year, on the 28 of April, the International Labour Organization celebrates the World Day for Safety and Health at Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilo.org\/moscow\/areas-of-work\/occupational-safety-and-health\/WCMS_305902\/lang--en\/index.htm#:~:text=World%20Day%20for%20Safety%20and%20Health%20at%20Work%202024&amp;text=Every%2028%20April%2C%20the%20International,to%20occupational%20safety%20and%20health.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 World Day for Safety and Health at Work<\/a> will focus primarily on raising awareness on the impacts of climate change on occupational safety and health. Climate change increases workers\u2019 exposure to health hazards linked with serious health conditions, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory illnesses, and mental health disorders. New epidemics like the COVID-19 pandemic, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nurses-combatting-frontline-AMR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)<\/a> will also grow in intensity due to climate change, with the linked health consequences for citizens, but also for the frontline workers that need to care for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Nurses are bearing the brunt of this crisis. As frontline health workers they are impacted directly by the effects of climate change on the safety and health on the workplace, as shown by the COVID-19 pandemic: increased workloads, burnout, exhaustion, and lack of recognition and compensation contributed to nearly 30% of the nursing workforce wanting to leave the profession, as Dr Paul De Raeve, the EFN\u2019s Secretary General, pointed out in his <a href=\"https:\/\/irispublishers.com\/ijnc\/pdf\/IJNC.MS.ID.000598.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest article<\/a>. On the other hand, as frontline health workers, they also provide high-quality care to patients and workers affected by health conditions which are the result of Climate Change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Through \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/EFN-Policy-Statement-on-Nursing-Planetary-Health-Oct.-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nursing Planetary Health<\/a>\u201d they also play a key role in addressing the causes of climate change by, for example, encouraging sustainable lifestyles, and reducing the environmental footprint of hospitals. However, to do so effectively, they need to be adequately trained and educated. To this end, the EFN has created a MOOC entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/efncourses.eu\/courses\/bewell-project-green-skills-for-nurses-and-allied-hcp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Green skills for nurses and allied HCP<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d <\/strong>in the context of the BeWell project, but this is not enough. Adequate policy responses are necessary, with focus on providing nurses with high-levels of education, but also safe staffing levels and safe working conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">For the 2024 World for Safety and Health at Work the EFN is thus calling on the relevant authorities to respond to the needs of the nursing workforce: do not throw away with the bathwater the Directive 2005\/36\/EU, revised by Directive 2013\/55\/EU, which means to not downgrade the nurses\u2019 education, and instead invest education, training and Continuous Professional Development (CPD)\/Life-Long Learning (LLL). Moreover, the <a href=\"https:\/\/irispublishers.com\/ijnc\/pdf\/IJNC.MS.ID.000598.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EU must tackle<\/a> the health workforce crisis, which requires adequate salaries, safe staffing levels to sustain high-quality patient care standards across the EU, strategic planning, education, and training without compromising educational standards, as outlined in Directive 2013\/55\/EU, and safe-working conditions, to improve the attractiveness of the nursing profession. Finally, nurses must be involved through co-creation in the design of the policies that will directly impact their daily work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, on the 28 of April, the International Labour&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14838,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=14838","url_meta":{"origin":17365,"position":0},"title":"WORLD HEALTH DAY \u2013 CLIMATE CHANGE AND PLANETARY HEALTH","author":"efn efn","date":"April 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"COVID-19 pandemic shed the light on the weaknesses of the healthcare ecosystem and, consequently, policies to address global environmental change gained important momentum in the design of recovery policies from COVID-19 and the Green Deal in the EU. 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