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- New Website on Workers' Health Education
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The Workers' Health Education website aims to provide a database of learning materials for safe and healthy work all over the world.
It collects, selects and organizes learning materials that are available on the Internet, free of charge or for low prices, from non-profit organizations. In addition, it provides a forum where participants can ask the community for support for specific needs and share their own training materials, experiences, plans and programs. Everyone is invited to share learning materials through this initiative. - UK, IOSH, video clip of employers talking about OSH benefits
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On this video clip you hear business leaders at E.ON, Leeds Metropolitan University and British Gas explain how they save money by investing in health and safety.
It features:
- A major energy company whose activities include wind farms and solar panels explains their approach
- A university that tackled stress and bullying
- A gas company talking about the occupational driving safety of their maintenance workers
- DE-Multitasking "don´t disturb" - guidance on how to avoid stress and overload (in German)
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The German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) has just published a brochure on how to tackle stress and overload linked to frequent interruptions and the demand for multitasking. The brochure is one of the outcomes of a project that attempted to identify good working practices to support an ageing working population.
- TESTING OF NANOPARTICLE CONTAINING POLYMERS FOR AVIATION APPLICATIONS
- Exova is an international consulting company with a testing laboratory. Exova's main working area is material testing including nanomaterials for the aviation industry. Physical and mechanical properties (e.g. material strength, weight and wear resistance) of the nanomodified materials are tested ...
- EU, ETUCE, Teachers’ work-related stress – survey results and brochure
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The European trade union committee for education - ETUCE - has made available a study report containing the full overview of the results of its stress survey as well as the ETUCE project brochure on Teachers' work-related stress: European-wide Survey - Assessment, Comparison and Evaluation of the Impact of Psychosocial Hazards on Teachers at their Workplace in the EU.
- NL- Standing, kneeling and squatting at work – health-based limit values
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In the present report, at the request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands has investigated whether at the present time there are any new scientific insights concerning health-based or safety-based limit values for work performed while standing, kneeling or squatting.
- Beratungsstelle Sexuelle Belästigung und Mobbing (Sexual Harassment and Mobbing Counseling Office)
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Seit Februar 2001 gibt es an der Universität Wien erstmals in Österreich eine Beratungsstelle Sexuelle Belästigung und Mobbing für Universitätsangehörige. Sie wurde von der Abteilung Frauenförderung und Gleichstellung konzipiert und wird von ihr geleitet. Auf der Webseite findet man Informationen über sexuellen Belästigung und Mobbing.
Since February 2001, the University of Vienna has Austria's first Sexual Harassment and Mobbing Counseling Office for the university community. It is an information and consultation center for those affected by sexual harassment and mobbing at the University of Vienna. The advice center provides information about sexual harassment and mobbing.
- A practical guide on best practice to prevent or minimise asbestos risks
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The practical guide provides information on the identification of asbestos and asbestos products and raises awareness of the asbestos presence. It describes good practice on asbestos removal (e.g. dust suppression, enclosure and protective equipment) and the handling asbestos-cement products and waste. Furthermore, the guideline encourages the use of protective equipment and clothing, taking into account human factors.
This guideline is made for employers (e.g. regarding technical, organisational and personal safety and health protection), employees (e.g. regarding information about protective measures, workers’ training, OSH motivation) and labour inspectors (e.g. regarding key aspects during inspection visits).
The Senior Labour Inspectors Committee (SLIC) prepared this guideline together with the European Social Partners (trade union and employers representatives) and the Advisory Committee for Safety and Health at Work (ACSH) in 2006.
Note: The manuscript was completed well before the release of Directive 2009/148/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to asbestos at work, thus it does not serve as a direct guideline for the latest legislation.
- 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.
- Younger workers: Health and safety aspects of working life
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Younger workers are vulnerable, as they often are inexperienced, and ignorant of risks to themselves and others. It is important to integrate safety and health into education so that young people are aware of the risks they might face and are capable of dealing with them. It is also important for employers to pay extra attention to the safety of young workers, including students taking summer jobs.
EU-OSHA highlighted some of these aspects in a blog produced for International Youth Day on the 12th August
- European Photo Competition: The deadline for submission of entries is 31st August 2011. Don’t miss your chance to win a top prize of €3,000
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The competition calls for entries on the theme of ‘safety and health in the workplace’, with a special focus on risk prevention. All photographers – professional or amateur – are invited to submit their entries before 31 August 2011. The three best photographs are selected according to their creativity and originality, as well as universal European appeal. This year for the first time there will be a special youth prize for participants under 21 years of age!
Latest news and updates through the competition’s Facebook and Flickr pages
- World No Tobacco Day – It’s Time to Stamp out Smoking at Work
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31st May is World No Tobacco Day. It is well known that smoke is bad for your health. However, thousands of workers are still exposed to tobacco smoke at their workplaces.
The European Commission is launching during the 4th quarter of 2011 the second stage consultation of the social partners about its initiative on “Occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke”. EU-OSHA is supporting smoke-free workplaces by making available information to help employers, smoking and non-smoking workers to prevent and stop exposure to tobacco smoke at the workplace.
Watch NAPO in… Lungs at Work and find out more on the no-tobacco dedicated section
Green Paper towards a Europe free from tobacco smoke: policy options
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
- EU-OSHA launches third edition of Healthy Workplaces Film Award
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Entries to the award are now open, with a prize fund of 8,000 Euro at stake for the best documentary on work-related topics. The winner will be announced at the International DOK Leipzig Festival in October. Through this award EU-OSHA is looking to promote the importance of safe and healthy workplaces across Europe in a thought-provoking way.
- European Photo Competition: The deadline for submission of entries is 31st August 2011. Don’t miss your chance to win a top prize of €3,000.
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Following the success of its 2009 competition, which received over 1600 entries, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has launched its second photo competition to raise awareness of safety and health at work.
- World Health Day – 7 April
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EU-OSHA engages in Workplace Health Promotion to encourage the improvement of health and well-being at work, and thereby cutting the cost of illness in the EU workforce. Workplace Health Promotion leads to reduced absenteeism, enhanced motivation, and improved productivity.
Workplace Health Promotion at a glance
- Your guide to a safer workplace (booklet for taxi-drivers)
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An information booklet has been put together by the VTD (Victorian Taxi Directorate) with the assistance of several bodies and associations to alert taxi drivers of the potential dangers of working in the industry and what they can do to maintain safety for themselves and their passengers.
The booklet contains information on difficult situations (e.g. aggressive passengers), appropriate behaviour, healthy life, safety equipment, procedures and how to act in the event of accident.
The VTD is part of the Department of Transport and regulates the taxi and hire vehicle industries.
- HSE - Teenage student at risk of injury
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Agricultural college prosecuted for potentially endangering a teenage student
- HSE - Classroom risk assessment
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Public consultation - produce a tailored assessment online.
- EU - ETUCE - Action Plan: Preventing Violence in Schools
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Updated ETUCE Action Plan on Preventing and Tackling Violence in Schools
- Virusets Väg (The road of the virus - Aids Awareness Campaign)
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Transport workers could face HIV-Aids risk more then other workers. So Swedish Transport Workers Union launched a project to inform them about this risk. The final products include audio books to spread information about how HIV travels along transport routes throughout the world. The project proceeded from interviews with truck drivers, trade union representatives and experts in several countries (including Sweden, South Africa and Uruguay). The interviews are turned into an audio documentary and distributed through ''roadside libraries''.
Also in this section
- New Website on Workers' Health Education
-
The Workers' Health Education website aims to provide a database of learning materials for safe and healthy work all over the world.
It collects, selects and organizes learning materials that are available on the Internet, free of charge or for low prices, from non-profit organizations. In addition, it provides a forum where participants can ask the community for support for specific needs and share their own training materials, experiences, plans and programs. Everyone is invited to share learning materials through this initiative. - UK, IOSH, video clip of employers talking about OSH benefits
-
On this video clip you hear business leaders at E.ON, Leeds Metropolitan University and British Gas explain how they save money by investing in health and safety.
It features:
- A major energy company whose activities include wind farms and solar panels explains their approach
- A university that tackled stress and bullying
- A gas company talking about the occupational driving safety of their maintenance workers
- DE-Multitasking "don´t disturb" - guidance on how to avoid stress and overload (in German)
-
The German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) has just published a brochure on how to tackle stress and overload linked to frequent interruptions and the demand for multitasking. The brochure is one of the outcomes of a project that attempted to identify good working practices to support an ageing working population.
- TESTING OF NANOPARTICLE CONTAINING POLYMERS FOR AVIATION APPLICATIONS
- Exova is an international consulting company with a testing laboratory. Exova's main working area is material testing including nanomaterials for the aviation industry. Physical and mechanical properties (e.g. material strength, weight and wear resistance) of the nanomodified materials are tested ...
- EU, ETUCE, Teachers’ work-related stress – survey results and brochure
-
The European trade union committee for education - ETUCE - has made available a study report containing the full overview of the results of its stress survey as well as the ETUCE project brochure on Teachers' work-related stress: European-wide Survey - Assessment, Comparison and Evaluation of the Impact of Psychosocial Hazards on Teachers at their Workplace in the EU.
- NL- Standing, kneeling and squatting at work – health-based limit values
-
In the present report, at the request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands has investigated whether at the present time there are any new scientific insights concerning health-based or safety-based limit values for work performed while standing, kneeling or squatting.
- Beratungsstelle Sexuelle Belästigung und Mobbing (Sexual Harassment and Mobbing Counseling Office)
-
Seit Februar 2001 gibt es an der Universität Wien erstmals in Österreich eine Beratungsstelle Sexuelle Belästigung und Mobbing für Universitätsangehörige. Sie wurde von der Abteilung Frauenförderung und Gleichstellung konzipiert und wird von ihr geleitet. Auf der Webseite findet man Informationen über sexuellen Belästigung und Mobbing.
Since February 2001, the University of Vienna has Austria's first Sexual Harassment and Mobbing Counseling Office for the university community. It is an information and consultation center for those affected by sexual harassment and mobbing at the University of Vienna. The advice center provides information about sexual harassment and mobbing.
- A practical guide on best practice to prevent or minimise asbestos risks
-
The practical guide provides information on the identification of asbestos and asbestos products and raises awareness of the asbestos presence. It describes good practice on asbestos removal (e.g. dust suppression, enclosure and protective equipment) and the handling asbestos-cement products and waste. Furthermore, the guideline encourages the use of protective equipment and clothing, taking into account human factors.
This guideline is made for employers (e.g. regarding technical, organisational and personal safety and health protection), employees (e.g. regarding information about protective measures, workers’ training, OSH motivation) and labour inspectors (e.g. regarding key aspects during inspection visits).
The Senior Labour Inspectors Committee (SLIC) prepared this guideline together with the European Social Partners (trade union and employers representatives) and the Advisory Committee for Safety and Health at Work (ACSH) in 2006.
Note: The manuscript was completed well before the release of Directive 2009/148/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to asbestos at work, thus it does not serve as a direct guideline for the latest legislation.
- 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.
- Younger workers: Health and safety aspects of working life
-
Younger workers are vulnerable, as they often are inexperienced, and ignorant of risks to themselves and others. It is important to integrate safety and health into education so that young people are aware of the risks they might face and are capable of dealing with them. It is also important for employers to pay extra attention to the safety of young workers, including students taking summer jobs.
EU-OSHA highlighted some of these aspects in a blog produced for International Youth Day on the 12th August
- European Photo Competition: The deadline for submission of entries is 31st August 2011. Don’t miss your chance to win a top prize of €3,000
-
The competition calls for entries on the theme of ‘safety and health in the workplace’, with a special focus on risk prevention. All photographers – professional or amateur – are invited to submit their entries before 31 August 2011. The three best photographs are selected according to their creativity and originality, as well as universal European appeal. This year for the first time there will be a special youth prize for participants under 21 years of age!
Latest news and updates through the competition’s Facebook and Flickr pages
- World No Tobacco Day – It’s Time to Stamp out Smoking at Work
-
31st May is World No Tobacco Day. It is well known that smoke is bad for your health. However, thousands of workers are still exposed to tobacco smoke at their workplaces.
The European Commission is launching during the 4th quarter of 2011 the second stage consultation of the social partners about its initiative on “Occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke”. EU-OSHA is supporting smoke-free workplaces by making available information to help employers, smoking and non-smoking workers to prevent and stop exposure to tobacco smoke at the workplace.
Watch NAPO in… Lungs at Work and find out more on the no-tobacco dedicated section
Green Paper towards a Europe free from tobacco smoke: policy options
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
- EU-OSHA launches third edition of Healthy Workplaces Film Award
-
Entries to the award are now open, with a prize fund of 8,000 Euro at stake for the best documentary on work-related topics. The winner will be announced at the International DOK Leipzig Festival in October. Through this award EU-OSHA is looking to promote the importance of safe and healthy workplaces across Europe in a thought-provoking way.
- European Photo Competition: The deadline for submission of entries is 31st August 2011. Don’t miss your chance to win a top prize of €3,000.
-
Following the success of its 2009 competition, which received over 1600 entries, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has launched its second photo competition to raise awareness of safety and health at work.
- World Health Day – 7 April
-
EU-OSHA engages in Workplace Health Promotion to encourage the improvement of health and well-being at work, and thereby cutting the cost of illness in the EU workforce. Workplace Health Promotion leads to reduced absenteeism, enhanced motivation, and improved productivity.
Workplace Health Promotion at a glance
- Your guide to a safer workplace (booklet for taxi-drivers)
-
An information booklet has been put together by the VTD (Victorian Taxi Directorate) with the assistance of several bodies and associations to alert taxi drivers of the potential dangers of working in the industry and what they can do to maintain safety for themselves and their passengers.
The booklet contains information on difficult situations (e.g. aggressive passengers), appropriate behaviour, healthy life, safety equipment, procedures and how to act in the event of accident.
The VTD is part of the Department of Transport and regulates the taxi and hire vehicle industries.
- HSE - Teenage student at risk of injury
-
Agricultural college prosecuted for potentially endangering a teenage student
- HSE - Classroom risk assessment
-
Public consultation - produce a tailored assessment online.
- EU - ETUCE - Action Plan: Preventing Violence in Schools
-
Updated ETUCE Action Plan on Preventing and Tackling Violence in Schools
- Virusets Väg (The road of the virus - Aids Awareness Campaign)
-
Transport workers could face HIV-Aids risk more then other workers. So Swedish Transport Workers Union launched a project to inform them about this risk. The final products include audio books to spread information about how HIV travels along transport routes throughout the world. The project proceeded from interviews with truck drivers, trade union representatives and experts in several countries (including Sweden, South Africa and Uruguay). The interviews are turned into an audio documentary and distributed through ''roadside libraries''.
