Neither Healthy nor Safe: Insufficient Regulation of Occupational Health and Safety for Migrant Farmworkers in Europe

IF 2.4 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY EuroChoices Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI:10.1111/1746-692x.12432
Juan Castillo‐Rojas‐Marcos, Yoan Molinero‐Gerbeau
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SummaryOccupational safety and health (OSH) began to be regulated at the EU level with the OSH Framework Directive in 1989. Since then, many other legal acts and policies have followed, enriching the complex European set of legal tools and protections on work‐related health and safety. However, they all share the same approach: only eventualities happening to workers in the workplace, during working hours and/or caused by their work tasks can potentially be designated as an OSH impact; andtherefore be legally problematised and tackled. This paper argues that such an approach is insufficient for a sector like European agriculture, whose workforce is increasingly composed of migrant labourers. As scientific evidence reveals, migrant farmworkers face another whole set of severe health and safety risks directly linked to their jobs, which nonetheless would not fit in the traditional definition of OSH. From deficient and substandard accommodation to isolation and lack of access to vital services, these people's jobs potientially expose them to potent health stressors. The sector urgently needs a new and more ambitious conception of OSH to develop legislation and/or policies adapted to the needs of all its workers, including migrants.
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既不健康也不安全:欧洲对移民农民工的职业健康和安全监管不足
摘要1989 年,欧盟发布了《职业安全和健康框架指令》,开始对职业安全和健康(OSH)进行规范。此后,许多其他法案和政策相继出台,丰富了欧洲与工作相关的健康和安全方面的法律工具和保护措施。然而,它们都采用了相同的方法:只有工人在工作场所、工作时间和/或工作任务中发生的事件才有可能被认定为职业安全和健康的影响,并因此在法律上成为问题并加以解决。本文认为,对于欧洲农业这样一个劳动力越来越多地由移民劳工组成的部门来说,这种方法是不够的。科学证据表明,移民农民工面临着与其工作直接相关的另一整套严重的健康和安全风险,但这些风险并不符合职业安全和健康的传统定义。从住宿条件不足和不达标,到与世隔绝和无法获得重要服务,这些人的工作使他们面临潜在的健康压力。该部门迫切需要一种新的、更加雄心勃勃的职业安全和健康概念,以制定适合包括移民在内的所有工人需求的立法和/或政策。
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EuroChoices AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-
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期刊介绍: EuroChoices is a full colour, peer reviewed, outreach journal of topical European agri-food and rural resource issues, published three times a year in April, August and December. Its main aim is to bring current research and policy deliberations on agri-food and rural resource issues to a wide readership, both technical & non-technical. The need for this is clear - there are great changes afoot in the European and global agri-food industries and rural areas, which are of enormous impact and concern to society. The issues which underlie present deliberations in the policy and private sectors are complex and, until now, normally expressed in impenetrable technical language.
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