Ephor Project

What Ephor Project does

EPHOR (Evidence-based and cost-effective prevention for improving health at work) is an EU-funded research consortium established in 2020 under Horizon 2020 grant agreement No 874703 and coordinated by TNO in The Hague, Netherlands. It brings together 20 exposure, health, and data-technology partners across 12 European countries to develop the groundwork for evidence-based prevention of work-related non-communicable diseases through the working-life exposome concept. The consortium is part of the European Human Exposome Network (EHEN), a group of nine interconnected EU exposome projects.

The consortium's core technological output is the WeExpose working-life exposome toolbox, an open-access platform that integrates job-exposure matrices (notably EuroJEM, covering 10+ occupational exposures from 1970-2020 across multiple European countries), the European Interactive Exposure Exploration Tool for population-level prioritization, an Occupational Exposure Database combining environmental, wearable, and clinical data, and guidance on low-cost air-quality sensors for workplace monitoring. EPHOR combines large-scale pooling of existing cohorts with new data collection in targeted case studies, and disseminates outputs via peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs, webinars, and joint workshops with PEROSH and sister projects (EXIMIOUS, EXPOSIM).

EPHOR has no commercial revenue model. All activities are funded by the Horizon 2020 grant and distributed as open-access resources for scientists, occupational health practitioners, and policy makers. The project's go-to-market is event-driven: scientific conferences (ICOH, EPICOH), stakeholder workshops, webinars (Occupational Exposome Week), policy briefings to EU institutions, and collaborative dissemination through the EHEN network. There is no pricing structure, no paying customer base, and no product licensing.

Name

Ephor Project

Website

https://ephor-project.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

EPHOR is an EU Horizon 2020 research consortium that develops the open-access WeExpose working-life exposome toolbox, including EuroJEM, for scientists, occupational health practitioners, and policy makers across 12 European countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Occupational Health Research Software

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Ergonomics & Musculoskeletal Risk Assessments (EUAHAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Environmental Public Health Laboratories (Water/Air/Soil) (HLAJAIAG)

Keywords

• Occupational health research
• Exposome science
• Workplace exposure assessment
• Job exposure matrices
• Environmental health data

Headquarters

HQ city

The Hague

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. EU Horizon 2020 Research Grant: The EPHOR project is funded entirely by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 874703. There is no commercial revenue model; all activities are grant-funded research aimed at developing open-access tools and scientific knowledge for occupational health.

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Core offering

EPHOR (Evidence-based and cost-effective prevention for improving health at work) is an EU-funded research consortium that developed a working life exposome toolbox (WeExpose) for scientists, occupational health practitioners, and policy makers. The toolbox integrates job-exposure matrices (EuroJEM), exposure assessment methods, health impact assessment tools, and guidance on low-cost sensors to enable evidence-based prevention of work-related diseases. All outputs are delivered as open-access resources rather than commercial products.

Product overview

EPHOR (European Project on Occupational Health and the Exposome) is a research consortium that developed a unified Working Life Exposome Toolbox (WeExpose) for occupational health science. The core offering includes the WeExpose toolbox containing EuroJEM for job-exposure matrix assessments, an interactive European Occupational Exposure Exploration Tool for population-level exposure analysis, and methods for collection, storage, and interpretation of working-life exposome data. These tools are designed for scientists, occupational health practitioners, and policy makers to improve health at work through evidence-based prevention.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Working Life Exposome Toolbox (WeExpose) A comprehensive open-access toolbox developed by EPHOR for evidence-based and cost-effective prevention of work-related diseases. It enables scientists, occupational health practitioners, and policy makers to assess multiple exposures within the working-life exposome in relation to non-communicable diseases, and includes innovative methods for collection, storage, and interpretation of exposure data.
• EuroJEM (European Job Exposure Matrix) A tool designed for conducting occupational exposure assessments in large populations where individual exposure data is unavailable. Includes comprehensive set of job-exposure matrices covering wide range of occupational exposures across Europe including chemicals, particles, physical workload, noise, psychosocial exposures, and heat exposure, harmonized across multiple European countries from 1970-2020 and coded into ISCO-88 (COM).
• European Occupational Exposure Exploration Tool Interactive tool for identifying and prioritizing jobs, exposures or health outcomes taking into account the size of national or European population exposed. Built upon EuroJEM data and designed for policy makers, OSH professionals and researchers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 2.3 million people die each year from work-related accidents or diseases globally (per ILO), with inhalation hazards responsible for nearly half of these deaths — underscoring the need for EPHOR's exposome-based prevention approach.
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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• EXPOSIM ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026EXPOSIM is an EU-funded project organising the Occupational Exposome Week 2026 in collaboration with EXIMIOUS and EPHOR. The collaboration focuses on translating occupational exposome research into safer and healthier working environments through expert webinars on occupational exposures.
• EXIMIOUS ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2025EXIMIOUS is an EU Horizon 2020 project focused on delivering a new way of assessing the human exposome, specifically the occupational exposome. It collaborates with EPHOR on joint stakeholder events including the Occupational Exposome Week 2025 and shares research methodologies for occupational exposure assessment.
• PEROSH Network (Partnership for European Research in Occupational Safety and Health)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2024PEROSH is a network of occupational safety and health research institutes across Europe. EPHOR collaborated with PEROSH to host workshops on Work Life Expectancy (WLE) and Multiple Exposure Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in October 2024, with participation from around 50 stakeholders per workshop.
• European Human Exposome Network (EHEN)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020EPHOR is part of the European Human Exposome Network (EHEN), a network of nine large-scale EU-funded exposome projects dedicated to understanding the health impacts of environmental exposures. EPHOR collaborates with other EHEN projects (including EXPANSE, HEAP, Equal-Life, HEDIMED, ATHLETE, LongITools, EXIMIOUS, and REMEDIA) on shared goals, policy events, and publications.
• European Commission (DG Research & Innovation)coreOthersThe European Commission's DG Research & Innovation hosted the final EHEN Stakeholder Event in Brussels (November 2024), highlighting the importance of exposome research for EU policy making. EPHOR presented its data-driven approach to workplace exposure monitoring and occupational exposome passports.
• FIOH (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFIOH is a PEROSH member and EPHOR collaborator, responsible for practical arrangements of joint PEROSH-EPHOR workshops. FIOH researchers contribute to EPHOR's development of health impact assessment methods and work life expectancy tools.
• IOM (Institute of Occupational Medicine, UK)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIOM is an EPHOR collaborator, contributing scientific presentations at PEROSH-EPHOR workshops on exposome methods and exposure assessment case studies. IOM's Director of Scientific Growth also coordinates stakeholder engagement for EPHOR.

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Broad incumbents

• HSE (Health and Safety Executive, UK): The UK's regulator for workplace health and safety with a substantial in-house research function; HSE develops exposure-limit guidance and occupational exposure datasets that overlap functionally with EPHOR's evidence-based prevention objective, though at a national-regulatory rather than research-consortium level.
• TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research): EPHOR's coordinating partner and one of Europe's largest applied research organisations; TNO's Healthy Living and Work units run occupational exposure and industrial-hygiene research directly comparable to EPHOR's EuroJEM and WeExpose work, with a much broader applied-science portfolio across health, industry, and defence.
• NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, USA): The US federal agency for occupational health research and prevention; NIOSH operates its own job-exposure matrices and exposure-assessment programmes and is the closest global counterpart to EPHOR's mission of reducing work-related morbidity and mortality through evidence-based prevention.

Regional players

• IRSST (Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail, Canada): Quebec's occupational health and safety research institute; conducts workplace exposure monitoring, JEM development, and prevention research with a mandate and method mix highly comparable to EPHOR's, though serving a Canadian-jurisdiction context.
• CIOP-PIB (Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute, Poland): Poland's national research institute for labour protection and an EPHOR partner; CIOP conducts occupational exposure assessment and policy-support work highly comparable to EPHOR's, especially in Central and Eastern European workforces.
• BAuA (Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin): Germany's federal institute for occupational safety and health; conducts research on workplace exposures and operates national exposure databases comparable to EPHOR's EuroJEM, providing a parallel national infrastructure within the same regulatory and policy ecosystem.
• INRS (Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité, France): France's national institute for occupational risk prevention and research; operates comparable job-exposure matrices and exposure databases for chemical, physical, and biological hazards, and represents the French equivalent within the EU occupational-health research landscape.

Direct peers

• IOM (Institute of Occupational Medicine, UK): An EPHOR collaborator coordinating stakeholder engagement; IOM is a UK-based independent research charity focused on occupational and environmental health, sharing EPHOR's exposome-based assessment toolkit and contributing case studies to the joint workshops.
• FIOH (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health): An EPHOR project partner and PEROSH member; FIOH contributes to EPHOR's health-impact assessment (HIA) and work-life-expectancy (WLE) tools and is one of the leading European institutes for occupational exposure epidemiology, with directly overlapping methods and outputs.
• PEROSH (Partnership for European Research in Occupational Safety and Health): A network of European OSH research institutes that hosted joint workshops with EPHOR on Work Life Expectancy and Multiple Exposure HIA; PEROSH's membership overlaps significantly with EPHOR's partner consortium and pursues closely aligned pan-European applied research missions.

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