Press Release – 3 April 2006

CILIP focuses members’ attention on The World Day for Safety and Health at Work

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has organised a special benefit to enable its members to mark The World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April 2006 and ensure the very highest standards are maintained in their workplaces.

Free access for a limited period has been arranged to OSH UPDATE, which is a datasource produced and published by CILIP member and author Sheila Pantry OBE. It provides access to a wealth of specialised databases on health and safety legislation and associated topics and can be accessed at www.oshupdate.com

From Monday 3 April 2006 until Friday 12 May, OSH UPDATE will be available to CILIP members on a 30-day-trial basis and will enable them to maximise the value of World Day which is intended to focus international attention on promoting and creating decent, safe work. The International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva is behind the special day, which aims to reduce the number of work-related deaths each year and reduce the number of injuries and ill-health.

CILIP members can use the site for themselves and promote it to their users during this period of high visibility. To take advantage of this special arrangement CILIP members can go to www.oshupdate.com enter the username “cilip” and password “osh” (both lower case) and start to search.

Dr Jukka Takala, ILO Safework Director 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” .

Some of the ways CILIP members can draw attention to ILO World Day of Health and Safety are by:

Advertising
Promotion through the Information Services/Libraries’ own web site
Organizing visits to the Information Services for interested parties
Participating or organising in-house seminars/conferences/toolbox talks
Produce publications, including information sheets/leaflets for your workers

Contacts

John Woolley, Managing Director, CILIP Enterprises, CILIP – The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE | Tel: +44 (0) 207 255 0694 | Fax: +44 (0) 207 255 255 0541 | e-mail: john.woolley@cilip.org.uk | website: www.cilip.org.uk

Background to OSH UPDATE

OSH UPDATE is easy to use and links the user directly to the latest sources of information on worldwide occupational health, safety, hygiene, road safety, water safety, and environment trends.

Powered by Head Software International’s Headfast/Discovery Internet publishing software, OSH UPDATE contains more than 540,000 references and is updated monthly see. It contains ten bibliographic databases from worldwide authoritative sources:

UK legislation database – links all the references dated from 1987 direct to the full text – i.e. majority of the content of this database
UK Health and Safety Executive HSELINE – we have over 1900 full text links to HSE’s own documents
UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Publications from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work to which we have made all the references link direct to full text
NIOSHTICS US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), strong on full text links – to their own documents and also to some journals
Canada Ryerson University RILOSH
CISDOC the International Labour Office CIS Health and Safety Centre database has many full text links especially to ILO documents produced in the last couple of years
ILO Recommendations, Protocols and Conventions has all links to the full text
European Union legislation has links to full text for the majority of the references
OSH standards specifications including those from the British Standards Institution.

OSH UPDATE is expanding and agreements with other well-known information producers around the world are being sought so the databases can also be included. As well as the latest information, many reference sources go back 80 or more years and so a valuable tool for researchers, trainers and practitioners.

This new aggregation of databases contains thousands of relevant references with abstracts or keywords and will keep you and your colleagues alerted to hot topics such as the health risks of nanotechnology, corporate killing and corporate social responsibility, bio-terrorism, management of road risks, preparedness and business continuity and risk assessment.