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UK, HSE, How HSE complies with its equality duties

HSE's Commitment to the Equality Duty

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is committed to eliminating discrimination and promoting equality in our policies and in our dealings with our staff. We are committed to all aspects of equality with overarching objectives covering all equality strands.
 

Ricerca comparativa sulla partecipazione delle donne nei programmi occupazionali - Participation of Women in Vocational Rehabilitation Programmes .A comparative research

Il progetto di ricerca è stato realizzato al fine di esaminare la partecipazione e le esperienze delle donne disabili nella riabilitazione occupazionale all’interno dei centri dei membri dell’EPVR. In particolare gli obiettivi dell’indagine sono stati:
• esaminare la percentuale di partecipazione delle donne nella riabilitazione occupazionale all’interno dei centri EPVR;
• individuare gli ostacoli e le difficoltà delle donne nel reinserimento nel mondo del lavoro;
• elaborare raccomandazioni al comitato di coordinamento per il rafforzamento della partecipazione delle donne nella riabilitazione occupazionale.

The project examines the participation of women with disabilities in vocational rehabilitation programs. It examines the rates of participation of women in rehabilitation programs of the European Platform for Vocational Rehabilitation (EPVR) and investigates on the barriers for women vocational rehabilitation. The document also presents proposals to improve women's participation in such rehabilitation programmes. 

Summary - New risks and trends in the safety and health of women at work

In 2009 and 2010, the Agency commissioned an update to its previous research on gender issues at work , which found that inequality both inside and outside the workplace can have an effect on the health and safety of women at work. This summary provides a policy perspective and is meant to contribute to the task outlined by the European strategy on health and safety at work for EU-OSHA’s European Risk Observatory, “examining the specific challenges in terms of health and safety posed by the more extensive integration of women in the labour market”. It provides a statistical overview of the trends in employment and working conditions, hazard exposure and work-related accidents and health problems for women at work. It explores selected issues (combined exposures, occupational cancer, access to rehabilitation, women and informal work, and “emerging” female professions such as home care and domestic work). The research highlights the type of work carried out by women, issues faced by younger and older women, the growth of the service sector, violence and harassment, and increasingly diversified working time patterns as major risk factors.

UK -The Work Foundation, Working with multiple sclerosis

The report calls for a coordinated action to reduce the unnecessary burden of the condition on individuals’ lives and the UK economy. 

US Department of Labor makes available Web-based toolkit for federal agencies to increase employment of people with disabilities

Web-based toolkit

FR-Revamped site on chronic diseases at work now covers public sector

Chronic diseases, disablement, occupational disease, health and safety

INT-Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers. A Synthesis of Findings across OECD Countries

Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers

International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3 December 2010

This year's theme is "Keeping the promise: Mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015 and beyond"

UK - Clearkit, resource launched on employing disabled people

Employing disabled people

Tailored training strategies in OSH for young people with disabilities

Workers with disabilities have a particularly high rate of occupational accidents. Most of these accidents could be attributed to human or organisational error. The aim of the project was to increase the awareness about occupational health and safety based on long-term considerations. The guiding ...

APV Guiden

APV (ArbejdsPladsVurdering) er en vurdering af arbejdspladsen med fokus på de farer eller gener, som medarbejderne udsættes for. Selve vurderingen skal forstås som et styringsværktøj, der hjælper jer med at opdage problemerne og konkretisere, hvordan de bliver løst både effektivt og praktisk. APV-guiden er en guide med råd og vejledning til jer, der gerne vil i gang med APV i virksomheden, eller som måske savner inspiration til at skubbe en igangværende proces videre.

APV-guiden is a portal that provides help and information for workplace risk assessment. Examples and links for various branches can be found on line.

Promoting the integration of workers with disabilities at Ford

In the unit concerned most of the employees were older workers who suffered from certain physical or psychological handicaps. This unit was supposed to do light work only. This situation led to relatively high costs and frustration among the workers, with high sickness absence rate. By the ...

Ergolab: the key to healthy and safe employment of people with disabilities

The company provided sheltered workplaces for disabled workers. The firm was an all-round contractor, thus production processes and locations varied widely according to the customer. Activities ranged from making pallets through metalworking to gardening and party service. To obtain an optimal ...

Ergonomic adaptation of office and industrial workstations for disabled workers

Ergonomics applied to the integration or reintegration of disabled people into sheltered workshops and ordinary employment implies the selection and/or the accommodation of workstations suited to the characteristics of the workers. The approach of the institute based on analysing work demands and ...

UK - HSE, Literacy and OSH

Did you know... Literacy

The Evidence of Health Promotion (Part 2 - Evidence book)

The Evidence of Health Promotion Effectiveness. A Report for the European Commission by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education Shaping Public Health in a New Europe PART TWO (Evidence book).
Assessing 20 years Evidence of the Health, Social, Economic and Political Impacts of Health Promotion.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an endowed charity that funds a large, UK-wide research and development programme. They seek to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice.

Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect, enforce and promote equality across the seven "protected" grounds - age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.

Oxfam

To have the biggest possible impact on the lives of poor people worldwide, Oxfam concentrates on three interlinked areas of work:

Emergency response

People need help in an emergency – fast. We save lives, swiftly delivering aid, support and protection; and we help communities develop the capacity to cope with future crises.

Development work

Poor people can take control, solve their own problems, and rely on themselves – with the right support. We fund long-term work to fight poverty in thousands of communities worldwide.

Campaigning for change

Poverty isn’t just about lack of resources. In a wealthy world it’s about bad decisions made by powerful people. Oxfam campaigns hard, putting pressure on leaders for real lasting change.

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)/ Le Centre canadien d'hygiène et de sécurité au travail (CCHST)

Established in 1978 in Hamilton - Ontario, The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) promotes the total well-being - physical, psychosocial and mental health - of working Canadians by providing information, training, education, management systems and solutions that support health, safety and wellness programs. A not-for-profit federal department corporation, CCOHS is governed by a tripartite Council – representing government, employers and labour – to ensure a balanced, approach to workplace health and safety issues. It offers a range of workplace health and safety services to help the organizations raise awareness, assess risks, implement prevention programs, and improve health, safety and well-being.

Le Centre canadien d'hygiène et de sécurité au travail (CCHST) est un organisme du gouvernement fédéral du Canada situé à Hamilton, en Ontario. Sa vision est d'éliminer toutes les maladies et les blessures liées au travail sur le territoire canadien.

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UK, HSE, How HSE complies with its equality duties

HSE's Commitment to the Equality Duty

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is committed to eliminating discrimination and promoting equality in our policies and in our dealings with our staff. We are committed to all aspects of equality with overarching objectives covering all equality strands.
 

Ricerca comparativa sulla partecipazione delle donne nei programmi occupazionali - Participation of Women in Vocational Rehabilitation Programmes .A comparative research

Il progetto di ricerca è stato realizzato al fine di esaminare la partecipazione e le esperienze delle donne disabili nella riabilitazione occupazionale all’interno dei centri dei membri dell’EPVR. In particolare gli obiettivi dell’indagine sono stati:
• esaminare la percentuale di partecipazione delle donne nella riabilitazione occupazionale all’interno dei centri EPVR;
• individuare gli ostacoli e le difficoltà delle donne nel reinserimento nel mondo del lavoro;
• elaborare raccomandazioni al comitato di coordinamento per il rafforzamento della partecipazione delle donne nella riabilitazione occupazionale.

The project examines the participation of women with disabilities in vocational rehabilitation programs. It examines the rates of participation of women in rehabilitation programs of the European Platform for Vocational Rehabilitation (EPVR) and investigates on the barriers for women vocational rehabilitation. The document also presents proposals to improve women's participation in such rehabilitation programmes. 

Summary - New risks and trends in the safety and health of women at work

In 2009 and 2010, the Agency commissioned an update to its previous research on gender issues at work , which found that inequality both inside and outside the workplace can have an effect on the health and safety of women at work. This summary provides a policy perspective and is meant to contribute to the task outlined by the European strategy on health and safety at work for EU-OSHA’s European Risk Observatory, “examining the specific challenges in terms of health and safety posed by the more extensive integration of women in the labour market”. It provides a statistical overview of the trends in employment and working conditions, hazard exposure and work-related accidents and health problems for women at work. It explores selected issues (combined exposures, occupational cancer, access to rehabilitation, women and informal work, and “emerging” female professions such as home care and domestic work). The research highlights the type of work carried out by women, issues faced by younger and older women, the growth of the service sector, violence and harassment, and increasingly diversified working time patterns as major risk factors.

UK -The Work Foundation, Working with multiple sclerosis

The report calls for a coordinated action to reduce the unnecessary burden of the condition on individuals’ lives and the UK economy. 

US Department of Labor makes available Web-based toolkit for federal agencies to increase employment of people with disabilities

Web-based toolkit

FR-Revamped site on chronic diseases at work now covers public sector

Chronic diseases, disablement, occupational disease, health and safety

INT-Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers. A Synthesis of Findings across OECD Countries

Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers

International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3 December 2010

This year's theme is "Keeping the promise: Mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015 and beyond"

UK - Clearkit, resource launched on employing disabled people

Employing disabled people

Tailored training strategies in OSH for young people with disabilities

Workers with disabilities have a particularly high rate of occupational accidents. Most of these accidents could be attributed to human or organisational error. The aim of the project was to increase the awareness about occupational health and safety based on long-term considerations. The guiding ...

APV Guiden

APV (ArbejdsPladsVurdering) er en vurdering af arbejdspladsen med fokus på de farer eller gener, som medarbejderne udsættes for. Selve vurderingen skal forstås som et styringsværktøj, der hjælper jer med at opdage problemerne og konkretisere, hvordan de bliver løst både effektivt og praktisk. APV-guiden er en guide med råd og vejledning til jer, der gerne vil i gang med APV i virksomheden, eller som måske savner inspiration til at skubbe en igangværende proces videre.

APV-guiden is a portal that provides help and information for workplace risk assessment. Examples and links for various branches can be found on line.

Promoting the integration of workers with disabilities at Ford

In the unit concerned most of the employees were older workers who suffered from certain physical or psychological handicaps. This unit was supposed to do light work only. This situation led to relatively high costs and frustration among the workers, with high sickness absence rate. By the ...

Ergolab: the key to healthy and safe employment of people with disabilities

The company provided sheltered workplaces for disabled workers. The firm was an all-round contractor, thus production processes and locations varied widely according to the customer. Activities ranged from making pallets through metalworking to gardening and party service. To obtain an optimal ...

Ergonomic adaptation of office and industrial workstations for disabled workers

Ergonomics applied to the integration or reintegration of disabled people into sheltered workshops and ordinary employment implies the selection and/or the accommodation of workstations suited to the characteristics of the workers. The approach of the institute based on analysing work demands and ...

UK - HSE, Literacy and OSH

Did you know... Literacy

The Evidence of Health Promotion (Part 2 - Evidence book)

The Evidence of Health Promotion Effectiveness. A Report for the European Commission by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education Shaping Public Health in a New Europe PART TWO (Evidence book).
Assessing 20 years Evidence of the Health, Social, Economic and Political Impacts of Health Promotion.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an endowed charity that funds a large, UK-wide research and development programme. They seek to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice.

Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect, enforce and promote equality across the seven "protected" grounds - age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.

Oxfam

To have the biggest possible impact on the lives of poor people worldwide, Oxfam concentrates on three interlinked areas of work:

Emergency response

People need help in an emergency – fast. We save lives, swiftly delivering aid, support and protection; and we help communities develop the capacity to cope with future crises.

Development work

Poor people can take control, solve their own problems, and rely on themselves – with the right support. We fund long-term work to fight poverty in thousands of communities worldwide.

Campaigning for change

Poverty isn’t just about lack of resources. In a wealthy world it’s about bad decisions made by powerful people. Oxfam campaigns hard, putting pressure on leaders for real lasting change.

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)/ Le Centre canadien d'hygiène et de sécurité au travail (CCHST)

Established in 1978 in Hamilton - Ontario, The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) promotes the total well-being - physical, psychosocial and mental health - of working Canadians by providing information, training, education, management systems and solutions that support health, safety and wellness programs. A not-for-profit federal department corporation, CCOHS is governed by a tripartite Council – representing government, employers and labour – to ensure a balanced, approach to workplace health and safety issues. It offers a range of workplace health and safety services to help the organizations raise awareness, assess risks, implement prevention programs, and improve health, safety and well-being.

Le Centre canadien d'hygiène et de sécurité au travail (CCHST) est un organisme du gouvernement fédéral du Canada situé à Hamilton, en Ontario. Sa vision est d'éliminer toutes les maladies et les blessures liées au travail sur le territoire canadien.