Trends and Developments – The Netherlands Labour Authority
The Netherlands Labour Authority works for fair, healthy and safe working conditions for everyone in the Netherlands. As an independent supervisory body under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, the Netherlands Labour Authority monitors compliance across working conditions, the labour market and social security.
The Netherlands Labour Authority works risk-oriented, deploying its capacity where the most pressing problems occur. Thematic programmes bring together long-term series of interventions targeted at sectors or risks with the greatest impact. These interventions include workplace inspections, self-assessment tools, investigations and enforcement.
Strategic choices are based on two complementary analytical methods: the Broad Risk Analysis, which examines historical data to identify where harm is occurring, and the Environmental Scan, which looks ahead using qualitative signals from stakeholders, policymakers and scientists with explicit attention to vulnerable groups such as migrant workers. Together, they underpin a four-year strategic agenda.
The Trends and Developments programme addresses new, emerging and potentially overlooked occupational risks. Recent themes include algorithmic management, night work on the railway, human-centered design in accident prevention, and kidfluencers.
These are risks that existing research frameworks were not designed to address and where collaboration with PEROSH partners adds real value. Dutch experts of the Netherlands Labour Authority recently visited the German team of the risk observatory at IFA (our German PEROSH member) in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
The Netherlands Labour Authority’s internal knowledge centre connects scientific insight and enforcement practice. We actively welcome joint research initiatives, horizon-scanning projects and methodological exchange with PEROSH member institutes.
Contact: Jane Tijssen (jtijssen@nlarbeidsinspectie.nl)
Related institutes:
PEROSH
Trends and developments program (Dutch only)
Contact information:
Author(s): J. Tijssen
E-mail: ystoker@nlarbeidsinspectie.nl
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