This week the European Agency for Occupational Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has revealed survey data that suggests that workers in the UK are more confident than workers from anywhere else in Europe that health and safety issues would be addressed once they have been raised with their employer. The survey also considered trends in job-related stress, general public awareness of health and safety in the workplace, attitudes towards the role of good health and safety practices in raising the retirement age and in economic competiveness. In general the number of positive responses about health and safety has increased in the UK when compared against the figures from the last time the survey was completed in 2009. If safety and health professionals in the UK may be underappreciated by some on occasions, it's quite something to realise how - generally speaking - others in the same field in neighbouring countries apparently face an even harder climb.