INVENTORY OF WORKING CONDITIONS AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH SURVEYS

This working paper is part of Work Package 21 ‘Innovative tools and protocols for working conditions and vulnerability research’ of the InGRID project. It aims to discuss an inventory of working conditions and occupational safety and health surveys in Europe. Together with the inventories on linked employer-employee surveys and on policy data bases on working conditions and OSH that are made within the project, this inventory wants to provide researchers across Europe with an overview of existing surveys, and the quality of these surveys as a starting point for further integration and optimisation of the existing tools for working conditions research. The inventory bundles 17 national and transnational surveys on working conditions and OSH in European countries, which focus on individuals (employees), covering 11 European countries. It provides an overview of some relevant survey characteristics and survey quality information, such as survey methodology (timing, frequency, population, design), data collection and survey questionnaire, survey sample and response, scope of the survey (objectives and topics covered), available survey documentation, data availability, and quality control procedures. Finally some general conclusions are made based on the overview and some limitations of the inventory are discussed. This working paper was written for the InGRID project (Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion), which is coordinated by HIVA-KU Leuven. The InGRID project has received funding under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration (under Grant Agreement No 312691. This working paper addresses Work package 21 ‘Innovative tools and protocols for working conditions and vulnerability research’ and the milestone M21.9 ‘Inventory of Working Conditions and Occupational Safety and Health survey’. This report constitutes Milestone 21.9 ‘Inventory of WC & OSH surveys’, for Work Package 21 ‘Innovative tools and protocols for working conditions and vulnerability research’ of the InGRID project.