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Safety at work at JRC - Commission

20
May
2009

Safety at work at JRC - Commission

Opinion of 20 May 2009 on the notification for prior checking regarding the management of safety at work at the Joint Research Centre's Institute for Health and Consumer Protection in Ispra (Case 2008-541)

The Notification and the EDPS Opinion concern a dedicated filing system: "Management of Safety at Work" used by the Institute. Personal data with an implication for safety at work are collected and stored in this filing system and consulted when needed. The purpose of the processing is to comply with the employer's obligations on safety at work under Italian laws. The processing operation covers all employees of the Institute.

With regard to data quality and proportionality, the EDPS recommended that the Institute should reconsider whether the safety officer indeed needs direct access to general training data in SYSLOG Formation, as well as training data on languages and e-learning, in addition to training information directly relevant to safety at work. On rights of access, the EDPS recommended that the Institution should establish a minimum set of safeguards to ensure that access requests will be addressed in a timely manner and without restraints. With regard to information to data subjects, the EDPS recommended that notice with respect to certain items under Articles 11 and 12 of the Regulation should be provided in a more specific manner.

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