INDICATORS

53. WORK-RELATED HEALTH RISKS
Definition:
1) Number of employees who think that their health or safety is at risk because of work and
working conditions.
2) Number of employees who think their health is affected by work and working conditions.
Calculation:
1) WORKHEALTH project: percent of respondents (employees) answering positively to the
European Survey on Working Conditions question “Do you think your health or safety is at
risk because of your work, or not?”
2a) WORKHEALTH project: percent of respondents (employees) answering positively to
the European Survey on Working Conditions questions “Do you think your health or safety
is at risk because of your work, or not?” and “Does your work affect your health, or not? If
Yes, how does it affect your health?” The question about the impact of work on one’s health
(several answers possible) refer to: Hearing problems, problems with vision, skin problems,
backache, headaches, stomach ache, muscular pains in shoulders and neck, muscular pains
in upper limbs, muscular pains in lower limbs, respiratory difficulties, heart disease, injury,
stress, overall fatigue, sleeping problems, allergies, anxiety, irritability, trauma, other or
“work improves health”.
2b) Percent of respondents answering positively to the EHIS question HS.9 (which is asked
only for respondents currently working or having worked in the past.): Is any of the diseases
you had in the past 12 months caused or made worse by your job or by work you have done
in the past? 1. No, I had no disease in the past 12 months; 2. No, I had one or more disease
in the past 12 months but they were not caused or made worse by my job; 3. Yes, I had at
least one disease in the past 12 months which was caused or made worse by my job.
2c) Percent of respondents who have at least one physical or psychological health problem
caused or made worse by work, derived from 2007 Labour Force Survey ad-hoc module on
accidents at work and work-related health problems indicator 214: Illness(es), disability(ies)
or other physical or psychic health problem(s), apart from accidental injuries, suffered by
the person during the past 12 months (from the date of the interview) and that was (were),
caused or made worse by work: 1. None; 2. One; 3. Two or more. (This question is asked
only for respondents currently working or having worked in the past 12 months).
Notes: Subjective assessment of risks at the workplace.
2c) Also the type of the most serious complaint caused or made worse by work is asked (10
categories), indicator 215/216.
54. SOCIAL SUPPORT
Definition: Extent of social support measured by Oslo-3 Social Support Scale (OSS-3).
Social support is defined as the perceived availability of people whom the individual trusts
and who make one feel cared for, loved, esteemed and valued as a person. It is a strategic
concept in understanding the maintenance of health and the development of (mental and
somatic) health problems, as well as their prevention. Social support is determined by factors
at the individual as well as the social level. Oslo-3 is a composite scale measuring perception
of both support and social network.
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