Eurobarometer 35A (Mar-Apr 1991)

Health and safety at work.

Topics: Branch of economy; daily working hours and number of hours
each week; shift work; working on dangerous machines; health risks and
accident risks from work and closer description of these risks;
characterization of physical and psychological job stress;
self-determination in organization of work and in work rhythm; adequate
furnishing of place of work with machines and support of colleagues and
superiors; piecework; occupational diseases or work accidents in the
circle of colleagues; perceived jeopardy to personal health or safety
from work; number of work accidents suffered oneself and recognized
occupational disease; satisfaction with protection, hygiene and health
conditions at work; necessary improvements to increase work efficiency;
self-classification of knowledge about risks at work; participation in
safety courses; presence of a safety official for one´s own job;
possibility to express improvement recommendations in the areas safety,
hygiene and health conditions; change of job for health reasons;
perceived frequency of occupational diseases and work accidents in
one´s country and at one´s place of work; company, government, EC or
employee as primarily responsible for health protection at work;
knowledge of EC activities for job safety and source of information
about these activities; interest in additional information on
maintenance of industrial health and safety standards; attitude to
uniform legislation in the EC on maintenance of industrial health and
safety standards; country with the most progressive legislation
regarding maintenance of industrial health and safety standards;
expected improvement in safety conditions at work from EC legislation.

Demography: self-classification on a left-right continuum; party
affiliation and union membership; marital status; age at end of
education; sex; age; size of household; number of children in
household; monthly household income; occupational position; employment
in the civil service or private enterprise (company sector); company
size; supervisor status; position in household; occupation of head of
household; self-assessment of social class; residential status; degree
of urbanization; religious denomination; frequency of church
attendance; religiousness; city size; region.

Also encoded was: date of interview; length of interview; presence of
third persons during interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate.

Indices: opinion leadership (cognitive mobility); postmaterialism;
attitude to Europe; status in profession.