Important week for Safety and Health at Work

This week is very important for Safety and Health at Work around the World. Today, 28th of April, is the “World Day for Safety and Health at Work”, this year with the theme "Managing Risk in the Work Environment". On this day, many events and conferences will take place around the world, and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) will be under the spotlight, at least for one day.

On Thursday, we will celebrate 1st of May, an occasion to look back and see the many advances achieved in OSH in different countries.

However, recent tragedies like the one in Casablanca last week, with at least 55 workers dead, reminds us that there is still a lot to do to spread OSH around the world.

Information and resources on HORECA

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The EU-OSHA has published a Web section on HORECA (HOtels, REstaurants and CAtering), a growing sector with have a negative impact on occupational safety and health (OSH), due to factors like heavy workload, long working hours, and many other, wich makes it a sector with many work related diseases.

In addition to this, EU-OSHA has published different publications related to the HORECA sector, wich address the handling of dangerous substances, prevention of MSDs and other common sectorial risks.

Best whishes for 2008.

The year is over and it is time to think of these first months of "WorkingSafe".

Starting a project from scratch is not an easy task and it takes time and energy. We are very happy with how we have managed to build a nice community and increase our statistics month after month.

For the coming year, we have a great deal of new projects and enthusiasm enough to put them in place, hoping they will serve our main objective:

Disseminate information and rise awareness so everyone can Work Safe.

Best whishes for 2008.

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ICT and healthcare, a close relation.

Euractiv.com has published an article on ICT and the benifits it brings to cronic diseases in the present ageing environment.

EU-OSHA is running an Online Survey

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is running an online Survey to measure the services offered and collect feedback from users.



A similar campaign was made in 2006 and it led to important technical improvements and reorganisation of the content.

By filling the questionnaire you will spend less than 5 minutes and contribute to help EU-OSHA provide a better service.

Statistics on Safety and Health at Work

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has recently published a new "Single entry point" on Safety and Health at Work Statistics.



After some global figures there is more information on particular sectors and also links to other resources on this topic.

A good place to start looking for figures.

Fighting Safety and Health myths

The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publishes a monthly section called "myth of the month", where myths are fought against.




Safety and health is an area in which many myths are really "popular", and it is a great idea to provide information and explanations that can help people find what is real. That's why we support this initiative and contribute to disseminate this information.