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Working Group 1: Inventory of national approaches in agricultural safety and health COST Action SACURIMA Working Group 1 Martina Jakob, Joanna Makulska

Statistics Country Farm - number based on questionnaire Utilised agricultural area - based on questionnaire Labour force d Bosnia-Herzegovina 515000 2136 515.000 Malta 9.210 12.650 11.120 11.450 5.110 Cyprus 34.940 111.930 16.680 Romania 3.422.030 3.600.000 12.502.540 12.502.514 1.587.650 Greece 684.950 717.000 (2014) 4.553.830 4.151.000 448.220 Slovenia 69.900 69.902 488.400 494.641 79.970 Poland 1.410.700 1.410.704 14.405.650 14.543.000 1.649.400 Hungary 430.000 4.670.560 391.730 Croatia 134.460 164.628 (2018) 1.562.960 1.566.171 159.350 Italy : 1.010.330 : 12.098.890 995.810 1.145.710 Portugal 258.980 344.780 (2011) 3.641.690 3.668.145 (2011) 313.830 Lithuania 150.320 150.000 2.924.600 2.925.000 148.350 Austria 132.500 2.669.750 101.740 Bulgaria 202.720 4.468.500 248.020 Norway : 40.190 (2017) : 901.918 50.200 Spain 945.020 945.024 23.229.750 23.229.753 801.160 Latvia 69.930 69.933 1.930.880 3.028.400 76.860 Netherlands 55.680 82.300* 1.796.260 1.789.990 147.200 Ireland 137.530 137.500 4.938.520 4.900.000 183.790 Belgium 36.890 1.354.250 64.800 Finland 49.710 2.278.610 79.090 Sweden 62.940 62.937 3.012.640 2.580.000 (2016) 55.970 Germany 264.810 267.800 15.166.860 16.700.000 463.930 Estonia 16.700 995.100 19.880 France 445.240 452.000 27.569.220 27.700.000 731.420 Luxembourg 1.970 130.650 3.400 Denmark 35.670 34.731 2.614.600 2.634.362 51.020 Slovakia 25.660 71.740 1.889.820 1.918.878 46.690 United Kingdom 185.060 16.673.270 285.760 Czech Republic 26.530 3.455.410 103.270 Iceland : : : Switzerland : 51.600 : 10.500 152.100 Montenegro : 43791 : 334.048 106.617 12.12.2018 2

Statistics Ratio area farm land (ha)/number of farms Slovakia Denmark Luxembourg France Estonia Germany Sweden Finland Belgium Ireland Netherlands Latvia Spain Norway Bulgaria Austria Lithuania Portugal Italy Croatia Hungary Poland Slovenia Greece Romania Cyprus Malta Bosnia-Herzegovina 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Based on Eurostat data 2016 and questionnaire 12.12.2018 3

National approaches of health and safety management in agriculture Governmental bodies are in charge of handling HSE in most of the member countries. In general: National labour inspectorates Supported by: Agricultural social insurance (i.e. Germany, Poland, France, Finland, Austria) 12.12.2018 4

Example of a national approach – Poland National authority for occupational health and safety in agriculture The Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS) for individual farmers and members of the household working with them The Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) for employees (employment contract) The National Health Fund (NFZ) health care benefits /medical treatment free for insured farmers (in KRUS) and employees (in ZUS) National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) supervision and inspection the observance of labour law, in particular occupational safety and health rules and regulations as well as regulations on legality of employment and other paid work.

Applicable from 18 May 2018 amended provisions on farmers' social insurance and health insurance introduced an obligation for the farmer to insurance in KRUS assistants with whom the farmer concluded a temporary contract for employment for-harvesting hops, fruit, vegetables, tobacco, herbs and herbal plants. The total duration of employment provided by the worker on the basis of concluded contracts may not exceed 180 days in a given calendar year. The helper may be a Polish citizen or a foreigner entitled to work in Poland. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, about 500,000 people work seasonally in agriculture.

Generally, t he Polish social insurance system includes old-age pension insurance disability and survivor’s pension insurance sickness insurance work accident insurance

The Law on Farmers’Social Insurance distinguishes two types of insurance old-age and disability insurance (pensions and allowances) In Poland, from 1 October 2017, the new law on pensions was introduced - the general retirement age for individual farmers will be 60 years for women and 65 years for men. Farmers must have a minimum 25-year working period to be subject to agricultural pension insurance in order to retire. accident, health and maternity insurance (benefits)  a one-off compensation for permanent or prolonged health detriment or death resulting from an accident when performing agricultural work or farmers’ occupational disease  sickness allowance Farm relief worker system for farmers to conduct necessary work – not available

Accident statistics in agricultural plants are collected by the Central Statistical Office (GUS). Information on accidents at work in case of employees (excluding private farms in agriculture) is obtained from statistical card of accident at work and transferred to the Central Statistical Office as part of the program of statistical surveys of public statistics via the Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS). Accidents at work on private farms in agriculture are registered by branches of the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS) and transferred to the Central Statistical Office as reports. The data are related only to these accidents for which one-off compensations were granted in a given year. According to the Central Institute for Labor Protection (CIOP) assessment, not all accidents at work are reported, therefore the scale of the problem is generally underestimated.

Examples of national H&S strategies Croatia published a brochure: Denmark: Dissemination in all kinds of ways, such as facebook/agrisafety, websites, factsheets, newsletters…. 12.12.2018 10

Examples of national H&S strategies Finland: National Take care of the farmer project, organised by MELA France: fragmented, because MSA is regional Germany: SVLFG offers a lot of information on webpage, regular campaigns (www.svlfg.de) Greece: no national strategy especially for agriculture, but Greece used to have a social insurance for agriculture (OGA) until 2016 12.12.2018 11

Examples of national H&S strategies Ireland: 12.12.2018 12

Examples of national H&S strategies Poland: Since 1992 the Polish KRUS organizes rehabilitation stays for farmers - about over 14 thousand farmers per year (altogether ca. 300 000 persons) in 7 Rehabilitation Centers. The Fund organizes also rehabilitation stays for farmers' children during summer holidays. Children aged 7 to 15 are entitled to this benefit if at least one of their parents (legal guardian) is covered by social insurance for farmers (since 1993 nearly 23 000 thousand children).

Conclusions Most of the countries have some kind of H&S support for farmers. We need to focus on the effeciency ! Campaigns are designed on national level, lack of exchange among countries, because of language, disparities in the countries, etc.. We need a simple structure for HS systems! Campaigns need to be evaluated! 12.12.2018 14

Thank you for your attention from WG 1! 12.12.2018 15