Table 2.
Percentage of establishments with action in place on key prevention and promotion indicators and the association with the policy ranking
Prevention/promotion | Indicator | Average % of establishments | Five highest ranking countries (% of establishments taking action on indicator) | Five lowest ranking countries (% of establishments taking action on indicator) | p-value of χ2 testa | Cramer's Vb |
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Prevention (physical) | Conducting risk assessment | 77.23 | Italy (94.6) | Luxembourg (37.3) | <.000 | 0.05 |
Slovenia (94.2) | Greece (51.3) | |||||
Denmark (92.0) | Cyprus (53.6) | |||||
UK (91.9) | France (56.1) | |||||
Bulgaria (91.3) | Austria (56.4) | |||||
Prevention (physical) | Safety representation | 61.40 | Slovenia (100.0) | Greece (21.8) | <.000 | 0.14 |
Italy (87.9) | Latvia (27.6) | |||||
Romania (80.5) | Portugal (28.9) | |||||
Bulgaria (80.3) | France (33.2) | |||||
Lithuania (79.1) | Poland (33.2) | |||||
Prevention (physical) | Training employees in emergency procedure | 81.33 | UK (95.2) | Romania (62.6) | <.000 | 0.07 |
Italy (95.1) | The Netherlands (63.4) | |||||
Estonia (91.1) | France (63.8) | |||||
Spain (91.0) | Czechia (64.3) | |||||
Ireland (89.2) | Luxembourg (67.9) | |||||
Prevention (psychosocial) | Raising awareness of smoking and drugs | 33.47 | Finland (59.3) | Estonia (19.1) | <.000 | 0.06 |
Malta (49.4) | Poland (21.4) | |||||
Italy (48.2) | Czechia (24.6) | |||||
Romania (48.0) | The Netherlands (25.3) | |||||
Belgium (47.4) | Denmark (27.4) | |||||
Prevention (psychosocial) | Training employees in preventing work-related stress | 36.85 | UK (51.5) | Czechia (21.0) | <.000 | 0.05 |
Italy (49.2) | Estonia (22.9) | |||||
Spain (48.8) | France (23.8) | |||||
Ireland (46.9) | Croatia (25.7) | |||||
Slovenia (45.1) | Luxembourg (25.7) | |||||
Prevention (psychosocial) | Having an action plan to prevent work-related stress | 33.82 | UK (59.8) | Czechia (8.4) | <.000 | 0.05 |
Sweden (52.8) | Estonia (8.7) | |||||
Romania (52.7) | Croatia (9.1) | |||||
Denmark (51.9) | Greece (13.9) | |||||
Italy (50.0) | Luxembourg (14.6) | |||||
Promotion | Physical activity | 29.56 | Finland (76.0) | Cyprus (6.8) | <.000 | 0.11 |
Sweden (72.4) | Greece (7.5) | |||||
Latvia (67.4) | Italy (15.3) | |||||
Spain (47.5) | Hungary (18.3) | |||||
Denmark (46.2) | France (21.4) | |||||
Promotion | Healthy eating in the workplace | 29.46 | Finland (52.1) | Poland (17.1) | <.000 | 0.08 |
Romania (45.8) | Czechia (20.9) | |||||
Slovenia (42.6) | France (22.2) | |||||
Portugal (41.5) | Italy (23.0) | |||||
Malta (40.2) | Estonia (23.1) |
This table is based on data from the Second European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks, 2014 from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (2nd Edition). These data have been provided by the UK Data Service; 2016.
The association between occupational health and safety policy and practice was assessed by χ2 test.
Effect size of occupational health and safety policy ranking on practice was measured by Cramer's V.