An exploratory cross-country overview
Across Europe, the wine sector combines tradition, craftsmanship and strong regional identities. At the same time, like many labour-intensive industries, it faces ongoing challenges related to workplace safety, power relations and access to effective support mechanisms. Understanding how these issues are perceived by those working within the sector is a crucial step towards meaningful and sustainable change.
This page presents selected insights from an exploratory stakeholder survey conducted across six European countries: Austria, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary and Italy. The data reflects perceptions reported by employees, managers, HR professionals and civil society actors active in or around the wine sector. Results are anonymised and aggregated, and should be read as indicative rather than representative.
Looking beyond individual experiences
Rather than focusing on individual cases, the visualisations below aim to highlight patterns: similarities and differences between countries, as well as recurring tensions between perceived safety, trust in reporting mechanisms and awareness of available support.
The interactive dashboard allows users to explore how these perceptions change when filtered by country or stakeholder role. Complementary visualisations provide alternative ways of reading the same data, emphasising that how we visualise data shapes how we understand it.
As one EU official involved in equality and labour policy notes:
Data does not replace lived experience, but it helps us recognise when certain experiences are not isolated. Observatories like this allow us to identify structural signals early — before problems become crises.
Different countries, different profiles
While overall perceptions of workplace safety tend to cluster around the mid-range of the scale, country profiles differ noticeably when additional dimensions are considered. In some contexts, lower perceived safety is accompanied by relatively high confidence that incidents will be handled appropriately. In others, moderate safety scores coexist with limited awareness of support services or weaker trust in reporting mechanisms.
Radar-based country profiles highlight these contrasts by showing how multiple indicators interact within each national context. This multidimensional view helps move the discussion beyond simple rankings and towards a more nuanced understanding of systemic strengths and vulnerabilities.