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.

A+A 2007: A great event on Safety and Health at Work.

The A+A is probably the most important conference on the Safety and Health sector and takes places in Düsseldorf every other year. Due to its tradition (first conference took place in 1954), ability to gether many atendees and communication to decision-takers, the A+A is seen for many as an indicator for Safety and Health tends on pan-European market.

Taking this into account, we are satisfied to certified the success of this edition (18th to 21st of September), that had over 55,000 visitors and 1,400 exhibitors form as many as 51 countries.

If you missed the event it is easy (and worth) having a look at the summaries the organisation prepaired on the following links:

Opening day

Second day

Third Day

The next edition of this condeference will take place from 3rd to 6th of November 2009.

REACH is 3 months old ... are you aware?

Three months after REACH entered into force, there has been a lot of questions and queries about it.

You can have information on it on the ECHA site.

If you are interested on knowing more about REACH, wether you are user, manufactores or importer, the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) has put together some resources that are very clarifying.

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.