Aging workforce (Case Studies from Eurofound)

The aging of population in Europe is causing an aging workforce in many EU organizations. Far from being something temporary, the trend is settled and will probably stay in the near future.

Many companies have taken measures that allow them retain talent and benefit from experienced staff.

Eurofound released a series of case studies that can give ideas of how to better integrate and capitalise of aging workers inside the organisation.

There are 11 reports covering a series of EU countries(i.e. Austria, Germany), Italy, Spain and UK, all in English.

Hope some of the measure can be spread and reproduce in other organisations.

A+A trade fair. A great event is coming

From the 18th to the 21st of September the A+A Trade Fair will take place.

This event is a must for all Occupational Safety and Health professionals and a great opportunity for everyone interestedd in this matter.

We will attend and report on it.

Find more information on A+A

Fixed-term contracts increase in EU

Fixed-term contracts are not the best to ensure safe work. In the EU almost 1 out of 6 employees are fixed-term employees, almost half of them involuntarily.

By country, Spain gets the highs rate with more than 30% fixed-term contracts, while other countries like Estonia, Ireland or UK have a very low percentage. Agriculture is the sector with higher fixed-term contracts.

A negative aspect is that both total fixed-term contracts (women:14.1% in 2000 to 14.9% in 2005, men:12.5% in 2000 to 13.9% in 2005) and Involuntary fixed-term contracts (women:6.6% in 2000 to 7.5% in 2005, men:5.7% in 2000 to 6.7% in 2005) have increased during the last 5 years.

Find full report

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).