Approaching Occupational Safety and Health Emerging Risks Categories and Prevention

This paper summarizes the available information on major common concerns in Europe and worldwide, regarding the occupational hazards known as emerging risks, in terms of bodies responsible for risk prevention and risk assurance and also, of control institutions and social partners involved in work processes. It can thus be outlined an overview on how the various stakeholders are perceived nowadays this subject of definite importance in occupational safety and health. If certain consensus-oriented elements can be released, then they are based on the fact that the definition and identification of considered emerging risks are, by default, a challenge. Certainly it is not enough to address them from the perspective of opponents to the "classic" risks. The article also emphasizes the principles that should underpin the emerging occupational risk prevention approaches.