EU-OSHA undertakes interesting changes

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has undertaken an slight "face lift", in order to make its homepage more usable and nice looking.



But we find even more interesting a new service launched, called "alerts", that allows users to receive an email notification each time there is new content on their area of interest. The list of topics of interest is really extensive, and covers most of the topics any OSH specialist could be interested on.

As users, we welcome these improvements that will enhance the user's experience by making content easily available.

Foot and mouth desease outbreak being tackled

The foot and mouth outbreak detected in UK is been tackled in a very efficient way, having learnt the lesson in 2001, when this was not the case.




More information on the outbreak from HSE

Hold me tight! Another NAPO film

This video shows the right way to handle weights.

NAPO films are very successful, both in training sessions and awareness raising events.

NAPO gets the message accross.

Good moment to review the conditions of summer season working conditions

During the summer season some service activities get increased, especially those related to tourism.

It might be a good opportunity to go through these checklists.

Restaurants

Discotheques and night clubs

These and other checklist are available in the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA).

Smoking ban in UK. One month later

It has been one month since the smoking ban entered into force in the UK. This law, already implemented in other countries has been adopted in different levels, altough always proved to be benefitial for worker's and general public's health.

After this short period, it would be nice to have first opinions and comments from those under this law (employees, employers and general public in the UK), or from others that saw how this law was implemented on their country.

Any opinion is welcome.

Be safe on your bike

Usage of motorbike increase drastically in summer, and in many cases the stationallity of this activity makes it even more dangerous.

The RoSPA in the UK has issue an interesting report that helps increase safety and assess risks.

First wave of HWI seminars over

From 19th April in Warsaw to 29th of June in Constanta, 9 HWI (Healthy Workplace Initiative) seminars were held in 6 new EU member states.

The seminars gathered over 1,000 atendees and were a great opportunity to share knowledge and experiences aimed at creating a "Healthy Workplace".

A second wave of seminars, with around 20 new events, will be organised from September to November in major cities in new EU member states (Siauliai, Alytus and Kedainiai in Lithuania already confirmed, and Sofia and Tallin very advanced).

Keep informed on dates and content of the seminars visiting the Healthy Workplace Initiative (HWI).

Pictures from seminars held in 2006 are available here.


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