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Editorial7 November 2007: UK National Stress Awareness Day 2007 and National Ban Bullying at Work Day 2007Sheila Pantry OBE The UK National Stress Awareness campaign aims to present a more positive, proactive and manageable approach to stress management. There are many causes of stress and when these build up they undermine people's natural ability to cope, leaving them tired, and anxious, irritable and making stress more infectious. National Stress Awareness Day - 7th November 2007 is an annual event organized by the International Stress management Association. To find out how you can participate please visit www.nsad.org.uk. Talk to someone who will listen. Lines only open on National Stress Awareness Day 8am - 8pm. 0800 030 4786 National Ban Bullying at Work Day - 7th November 2007The UK Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) strongly condemn any form of harassment or bullying at work. National Ban Bullying at Work Day is spearheaded by the Andrea Adams Trust. To find out how you and your organisation can be involved in this years event visit www.banbullyingatwork.com also www.hse.gov.uk/stress. Revised HSE Stress guidance 2007The revision of HSE guidance 'Tackling work-related stress a managers' guide to improving and maintaining employee health and well-being (HSG 218) is about to go to print. It will include additional material and tools on CD-ROM. Publication is planned for November/December 2007 Finding it hard to keep up-to-date with the avalanche of fire and occupational health and safety (OSH) information? You can find quality guidance and advice produced by organisations and government bodies from around the world in reliable sources in collections of validated and authoritative information such as FIREINF, OSH UPDATE and IRISH OSH UPDATE. These collections are continuously enlarged as new information is published and contain information that is not normally found on web sites. For a 15 DAY FREE - NO OBLIGATION TRIAL contact: Sheila Pantry Associates Ltd | Tel: +44 (0) 1909 771024 | Fax: +44 (0) 1909 772829 | email: sp@sheilapantry.com | or fill in the Interest form www.sheilapantry.com/interest.html This month's OSHWORLD FOCUS is on UK Directors take Leadership on Health and Safety Guidance. The OSHWORLD Diary of Events continues to show the many courses, conferences and seminars are being held around the world to enable people to keep up to date with the developments. Any new items carry the tag NEW! Remember that some major events are being planned now well in 2008. Training needs should be constantly updated. It is essential that everyone is trained to do their job correctly. Keep up-to-date to see what is happening worldwide by clicking regularly on www.oshworld.com/diary.html. Your OSHWorld PortalWe hope that you find the information in OSHWORLD useful in your daily work. Globally there are continually new titles, news items, new products so remember to look at the News to find the latest information from a number of worldwide sources. Use OSHWORLD as your portal to many hundreds of validated and authoritative web sites which you can find in the Country and Subject links we offer. New subject topics are constantly brought together on web sites, e.g. avian flu and the workplace. Most information services have a reference shelf where you can quickly check the reference sources - so OSHWORLD brings you a collection of Reference sources and also teaches you how to Search the Internet. Click onto the various Bookshops to order any new document as they are being published. Many of these Bookshops have a constant stream of new titles available. Please send any suggestions or comments about OSHWORLD - your portal to validated and authoritative information. Remember also to look at our other really useful sites - www.sheilapantry.com and why not make a free entry about your company's products in www.shebuyersguide.com. Most of all why not try out a 15-day free trial to www.fireinf.com or www.oshupdate.com. Don't work harder - work smarter! Be ahead of the game. Are you aiming to have a zero accident, incident-free and healthy year in 2007 in your workplace? Some would argue that this is not possible! |