Monthly Archives: October 2016

Plant protection products, better known as agrochemicals or pesticides, are all of those products, natural or synthetic, which are designed to discourage any harmful organism from hindering the healthy development of crops. In some cases these products can cause serious health problems and even death. Pesticides can enter your body during mixing, applying, or clean-up […]

REGULATION (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on Personal Protective Equipment lays down requirements for the design and manufacture of personal protective equipment (PPE) which is to be made available on the market, in order to ensure protection of the health and safety of users and establish […]

People who work in environments where there is a probability of breathing potentially hazardous substances such as harmful gases, vapours and/or particles, must be equipped with appropriate respiratory protective equipment certified to specific harmonized European Standards.

Agriculture employs over 1.3 billion people throughout the world, or close to 40 percent of the global workforce and, like any other work environment, it presents a series of risk factors related to occupational accidents and diseases.