Programme

Public hearing on "Social dialogue as a tool to promote health and safety at work"

Remote event via Interactio, online platform - Wednesday, 17 November 2021 from 10:00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.

Agenda

09.30 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. | Log on to platform / Interactio testing 

10.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Introduction

• Welcome – Mr. Lech Pilawski, EESC Study Group President
• Introduction to SOC/703 opinion – Ms Franca Salis - Madinier, EESC Study Group Rapporteur
• Introduction to French Presidency referral - Ms Lucile Castex-Chauve and Ms Audrey Lauze

_{10.20 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Q&A}

10.30 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. |   Panel I – EU strategic framework on health and safety at work 2021-2027: meeting the challenges of a changing world of work

• Moderator: Lech Pilawski, EESC Study Group President
• Ms Annemarie Knudsen, Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee member and chair of the SLIC working group Strategy.
• Tina Weber, Research manager, Eurofound
• Mr Xabier Irastorza, Project Manager, European Occupational Safety and Health Adminsitration (OSHA)

_{11.30 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. | Break}

11.45 a.m. - 01.00 p.m. | Panel II – Improving social dialogue and its impacts on European workers’ health and safety : point of view of stakeholders

• Moderator: Edgar Vilares Diogo, EESC Study Group Member
• Mr Claes-Mikael Ståhl, Deputy Secretary General, ETUC
• Ms Rebekah Smith,  Deputy Director Social Affairs, BUSINESSEUROPE
• Ms Nadia Rahou, Agence Nationale pour l’amelioration des conditions de travail (ANACT)
• Professor Jacek Męcina, University of Warsaw

_{12.30 p.m. - 12.55 p.m. | Q&A}

12.55 p.m. - 01.00 p.m. | Closing remarks

• Ms Franca Salis - Madinier, EESC Study Group Rapporteur

Participants can speak English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Portuguese and listen to English, French, Hungarian, Italian and Polish