This report is part of a study supporting the European Commission’s evaluation of EU Agencies: Eurofound, Cedefop, ETF and EU-OSHA, for the period 2017-2022. The legal basis of the evaluation is set in the three tripartite Agencies (Eurofound, Cedefop, EU-OSHA) revised founding Regulation and in Art. 24 (2) of ETF’s founding Regulation. This is the second joint evaluation of the Agencies, with the first having taken place in 2018. Apart from these joint evaluations, the Agencies are conducting evaluations of their programmes and activities on their own initiative. This report looks into the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, EU-added value and relevance of EU-OSHA in the 2017-2022 period. The methods and sources used to evidence this report, along with their strengths and limitations, are available in Annex 11. The report is structured as follows: Section 2 presents the expected outcomes from the work of EU-OSHA in the period 2017-2022. The section first describes EU-OSHA’s mandates and objectives. It then presents the Intervention Logic, which underpins this evaluation, as well as the baseline for comparing EU-OSHA’s performance in 2017-2022. Section 3 presents an overview of EU-OSHA’s performance in 2022 concerning its activities, outputs and results in 2022. Sections 0-0 presents the evaluation findings across the five evaluation criteria used in this evaluation: effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, EU added value and relevance. Section 0 presents the overall conclusions of the report.
Authors
Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission, ECORYS, Spyridopoulos, Kyrillos, Gerland, Eva, Linter, Anna
- Catalogue number
- KE-09-24-575-EN-N
- Citation
- European Commission: Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Spyridopoulos, K., Gerland, E. and Linter, A., Study supporting the evaluation of EU agencies – Eurofound, Cedefop, ETF and EU-OSHA. Annex 4, EU-OSHA report , Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2767/425743
- DOI
- https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2767/425743
- ISBN
- 978-92-68-18641-1
- Pages
- 168
- Published in
- Belgium
- Themes
- Labour market — Free movement of workers , Activities of the institutions and bodies
Table of Contents
- Study supporting the evaluation of EU Agencies Eurofound Cedefop 1
- ETF and EU-OSHA 1
- VT2022015 1
- Annex 4 EU-OSHA report 1
- Study supporting the evaluation of EU Agencies Eurofound Cedefop 3
- ETF and EU-OSHA 3
- VT2022015 3
- Contents 5
- Figures 6
- Tables 9
- Acronyms 11
- 1. Introduction 13
- 1.1. Background and mission 13
- 2. General and specific objectives 15
- 3. Baseline 18
- 4. State of play 20
- 4.1. Budget and human resources 20
- 4.2. Activities outputs and results 21
- 4.3. Key challenges and external factors affecting EU- OSHAs work 26
- 5. Effectiveness 28
- 5.1. Activities outputs and results 28
- 5.1.1. RQ1 To what extent did the Agency achieve its 28
- 5.1.2. RQ4 Were there other broader achievements 52
- 5.1.3. RQ5 Which factors facilitated or hindered the 54
- 5.2. How the agencys services were used 60
- 5.2.1. RQ2 To what extent were the services of the Agency 60
- 5.2.2. RQ3 To what extent did the Agency focus its work 68
- 5.3. Adaption to recent challenges and priorities 71
- 5.3.1. RQ6 To what degree has the Agency adapted to 71
- 5.3.2. RQ7 To what degree has the Agency provided 75
- 5.4. Conclusions as to effectiveness 81
- 6. Efficiency 82
- 6.1. Agency operations 82
- 6.1.1. EQ8 To what extent were the operations of the 82
- 6.1.2. RQ10 To what extent were the internal mechanisms 91
- 6.1.3. RQ13 Were there any potential areas andor 97
- 6.2. Staffing and structure 101
- 6.2.1. RQ9 To what extent were staff resources and 101
- 6.2.2. RQ11 How efficient was the agencys governance 109
- 6.3. Efficiency in a broader context 114
- 6.3.1. RQ12 How well was the agency embedded in the 114
- 6.3.2. RQ14 To what extent do new elements e.g. ELA 116
- 6.4. Conclusions as to efficiency 117
- 7. Coherence 119
- 7.1. Inter-agency coherence 119
- 7.1.1. RQ15 To what extent were the mandates and 119
- 7.1.2. RQ16 To what extent did the four agencies work 119
- 7.1.3. Conclusion 125
- 7.2. External coherence 126
- 7.2.1. RQ17 To what extent are the agencys mandate and 128
- 7.2.2. RQ18 To what extent are the mandate and activities 136
- 7.2.3. RQ19 To what extent are the mandate and activities 140
- 7.3. Conclusions as to coherence 141
- 8. EU added value 143
- 8.1. Beneficiaries of the Agencys work 143
- 8.1.1. RQ20 What was the EU added value of the agency 143
- 8.1.2. RQ21 To which groups of stakeholders concretely 148
- 8.2. Conclusions as to EU added value 151
- 9. Relevance 152
- 9.1. Fulfilment of policy needs 152
- 9.1.1. RQ22 To what extent did the Agencys mandate 152
- 9.1.2. RQ23 To what extent are the Agencys mandate and 155
- 9.1.3. RQ24 To what extent is there a need to amend the 158
- 9.1.4. RQ25 In terms of foresight are there any future 158
- 9.2. Audit recommendations 159
- 9.2.1. RQ26 To what extent have recent audit 159
- 9.3. Conclusions as to relevance 160
- 10. Conclusions 161
- 10.1. Effectiveness 161
- 10.2. Efficiency 162
- 10.3. Coherence 162
- 10.4. EU added value 162
- 10.5. Relevance 163
- 11. Lessons learned 164
- 11.1. Effectiveness 164
- 11.2. Efficiency 164
- 11.3. Coherence 165
