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March 2006
28 April 2006 is World Day for Safety and Health at Work and is a very
important day and opportunity for organisations worldwide to promote this
day in their own workplace and work towards raising higher standards of
health and safety.
The theme for 2006 is Decent Work - Safe Work - HIV/AIDS at work.
Dr Jukka Takala says "The 2006 World Day for Safety and Health
at Work is intended to focus international attention on promoting and
creating a preventative safety and health culture at work and to help
reduce the number of work-related deaths and injuries each year. This
year, as in previous years, tripartite events will be taking place
worldwide. You are invited to join us in promoting this important day in
your own country"
It is vital that as many people as possible to prepare for it wherever
they are - so hopefully this timely reminder will give you chance to
promote health and safety in your own workplace. If you are short of ideas
then look at the Working Group Paper 1 to which many of the ILO CIS Health
and Safety Information Centres network members contributed - see www.sheilapantry.com/cis/other/wp01.html.
There are many ways that you can make an effort to raise awareness of good
health and safety practices, e.g.
- Promote direct to the people in your organisation
- Organise quizzes in departments and section of the company
- Writing articles/information notes for the trade and technical press
- Participating in seminars/conferences/exhibitions or organise
some yourself
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work invites entries
for the first 'Safe Start ... European Young Film Maker of the Year' video
competition
The competition is part of the European Week 2006 which, under the
slogan 'Safe Start!', is dedicated to young people to ensure a safe and
healthy start to their working lives.
'Young people at work are the focus of our campaign this year as
they run a 50% higher risk of work accidents than any other age category',
explains Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, Director of the European Agency
for Safety and Health at Work. 'As part of the 'Safe Start!'
campaign, the Agency will promote risk awareness and risk prevention in
enterprises, schools and colleges across Europe. Through the competition
for young film makers we invite young people to express and share their
views on workplace safety'.
The video competition is open to schools and to young people under the
age of 19 on 30 September 2006 working as individuals or as a team. Young
people are invited to create a short documentary, drama, TV commercial,
news report, music, animation - whatever gets the message out about safety
and health at work - to capture on film the workplace, people at work and
some of the potential dangers, risks and hazards at work. Producers are
encouraged to interpret the brief as widely as possible and not to simply
think of the obvious.
Entries must be made by a teacher or by another responsible person at a
school or college in DVD format. Entries from individual young people will
not be accepted. The maximum running time is five minutes. The closing
date for the competition is 30 September 2006.
An independent Jury of experts in communications, safety and health
will evaluate all the entries, looking for compelling images and a good
storyline that will grab their attention. The Jury will consider three
criteria - effectiveness of the message, treatment of the subject and the
overall impression. The Agency will award prizes to the producers whose
film images catch the eye of the Jury. The producers - individuals or
teams - of the best three films will be awarded the title of "Safe
Start ... European Young Film Maker of the Year", and invited to an
Awards Ceremony in Bilbao, Spain, in March 2007.
The full rules of the competition and national contact details are on
the campaign's website at: http://ew2006.osha.europa.eu.
Good Practice Awards are part the European Week for Safety and
Health at Work, an annual campaign run by the European Agency to
promote a specific issue each year. The European Week 2006 is dedicated to
young people under the slogan 'Safe Start!'. The campaign follows a
decentralised model: the Agency coordinates campaign activities, provides
information in 20 languages and via the campaign website, organises Good
Practice Awards, a Video Competition and the Closing Event; national Focal
Points in each of the 25 EU Member Sates promote, stimulate and organise
activities at national level. The dual objectives of the Week are to
increase awareness of risks and to promote good practice solutions.
The 'Safe Start!' campaign will be officially launched on 19 June
2006 in the European Parliament, Brussels. The European Week itself
will take place from 23 - 27 October 2006. The campaign's closing
event will take place in March 2007 in Bilbao.
Updated information about Good Practice Awards 2006, the campaign as
well as national contact points are available at http://ew2006.osha.europa.eu.
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Gran Via 33, E-48009
Bilbao - Spain | Tel: + 34 94 479 4360 | Fax: + 34 94 479 4383 | Email: information@osha.eu.int
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