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European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU OSHA) Healthy Workplaces Campaigns are vital to our efforts to raise awareness of occupational safety and health throughout Europe and beyond

November 2020

The message of these campaigns is clear – ‘Safety and health at work is everyone’s concern. It’s good for you. It’s good for business.’

The campaigns are the largest of their kind in the world and each has a clearly defined theme – previous campaign topics range from promoting risk assessment and prevention to raising awareness of sustainable working and protecting workers from dangerous substances. The campaigns also have a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises and vulnerable groups of workers, ensuring that each campaign reaches those that need support the most.

A range of promotional and informational materials are produced for the campaigns and we also organise or support many awareness-raising events and initiatives. Highlights include good practice exchange events and the Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards, the European Week for Safety and Health at Work, the campaign summit and the Healthy Workplaces Film Award.

How do we get our campaign messages across to businesses? We rely on our extensive network of national focal points, official campaign partners, media partners, social partners and other intermediaries to promote the campaign and its materials and actively participate in events. In fact, productive collaboration with our network of partners is crucial for enabling real change at workplace level and underpins the success of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign initiative.

Check out EU OSHA campaign toolkit and get involved!

https://healthy-workplaces.eu/en/get-involved/about-campaign

OSH UPDATE + FIRE

These new findings, new research reports, new legislation and new articles and guidance will be included in the ever increasing in size OSH UPDATE +FIRE collection www.oshupdate.com

OSH UPDATE + FIRE is:

• long established from mid 1990s with some of the databases in the collection service having information going back over 80 years or more.
• easily searchable by keywords, titles, journal names, standard number, authors, organisations, and will keep you and your colleagues alerted to hot topics such as COVID-19/Coronavirus, returning to work after the lockdown, risk assessment, air pollution, travel restrictions, robots in the workplace, stress, violence and aggression in the workplace, workplace health risks, lone workers, preparedness and business continuity, risk assessment, bio-terrorism, management of road risks, all aspects of fire and related fire topics, workplace health and safety and much more.
• arguably the largest electronic collection in the World with very wide range of subject areas from worldwide sources. There is a special collection of OSH legislation, guidance and advice within OSH UPDATE and FIRE! And the subscription is very budget friendly!

The 26 databases and contents are from worldwide class organisations such as the US NIOSH, the UK Health and Safety Executive, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and many more similar global organisations.

All organisations worldwide need to really review their health and safety goals for 2020 and decide on the training or re-training that is needed for all levels of staff and definitely update their information resources.

Check out these successful efforts that are in OSH UPDATE + FIRE and OSHWORLD and introduce them into your workplace!

It is always good to keep researching and finding out if there are services and other ways of keeping up to date in this fast-changing world of ours.

Time is precious and many people are really stretched in their jobs and find it difficult to keep ahead in current knowledge that they should have for their jobs.

So, help is at hand for those working in health, safety and fire and fire-related industries which are brought together in an easy to use web service entitled OSH UPDATE + FIRE that is constantly updated.

Then try these long established Practical, Affordable Solutions for your health, safety, fire and environment information needs for a 15-DAY FREE NO OBLIGATION TRIAL contact: Sheila Pantry Associates Ltd | email: sp@sheilapantry.com | or fill in the Interest form www.sheilapantry.com/interest.html

Events

Many meetings and events have been cancelled worldwide because of the Coronavirus pandemic – but optimistically many events are now being arranged for months ahead and many converted to webinars. Look at the details – where possible, we add in the web sites of these events so you can request further information. And do let me know if you are organising any OSHE events so that these can be added to the OSHWORLD Diary.

FOCUS

This month’s OSHWORLD FOCUS is COVID-19 transmission – up in the air.

OSHWORLD – your portal to some great OSH and FIRE web sites in the world

Wherever you are in the world have a look at your health, safety, chemical, fire and environment procedures in your workplace and update them. Your review may also indicate training requirements and re-thinking how systems and services can be improved. This is where the free-of-charge OSHWORLD can help you.

Resources

In addition to the above we 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 range of worldwide sources.

Use OSHWORLD as your portal to many hundreds of validated and authoritative web sites that you can find in the Country and Subject links we offer. New subject topics are constantly brought together on web sites, e.g. nanotechnology 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.

Visit 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

Don’t forget to learn from history – visit www.historyofosh.org.uk
An invaluable resource for students, lecturers, trainers, health and safety professionals and others with a general interest in industrial history, the site sets out developments from the 1802 Factory Act all the way through to the most recent regulatory changes made by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Also visit www.sheilapantry.com/memorial

Don’t work harder – work smarter! Be ahead of the game.

Well did you have a zero accident, incident-free and healthy 2019 in your workplace? Some would argue that this is not possible! But keep on trying again in 2020 and finding new ways of working safely in the COVID-19/Coronavirus world.