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World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April 2012 - promoting safety and health in a green economy
The International Labour Organization (ILO) celebrates the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on the 28 April to promote the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases globally. It is an awareness-raising campaign intended to focus international attention on emerging trends in the field of occupational safety and health and on the magnitude of work-related injuries, diseases and fatalities worldwide. This year the campaign focuses on the safety and health dimension of greening the economy. Find more information about this significant day here
25/4/2012
New Healthy Workplaces Campaign: call to action to work together
EU-OSHA launches its new two-year Healthy Workplaces Campaign on ‘Working together for risk prevention. EU workplaces are safer and healthier than they have ever been. But still every year there are 6.9 million workplace accidents and millions more work-related diseases. The human suffering of poor safety and health is immeasurable, but the economic cost is estimated at 490 billion euros a year - more than half the current cost of the EU's financial crisis bail-out fund. EU-OSHA's new campaign turns the spotlight on the importance of management leadership and worker participation in improving workplace safety and health. Read more from the press release here
23/4/2012
Join the “Stand 4 Change” Day against bullying on 4 May 2012
Education International (EI) invites teacher organisations and schools to join the Stand 4 Change Day against bullying, on 4 May 2012. On this day, all school communities around the world are invited to stand together for five minutes around noon (local time) to commit to create a safe learning environment for all students and education personnel. The Stand 4 Change Day is an initiative of the “Stand4Change” coalition, which includes amongst others the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA). To participate, schools can register here
23/4/2012
"Quality in Academia and Life - A joint strategy to improve Work-Life Balance" is a strategy paper that aims to improve general conditions for arrangements of work-life balances
The strategy paper is the result of the multilateral partnership “Work-Life Balance and gender specific
career patterns in higher education and science". The aim has been to support transparency, information, and orientation concerning Europe-wide mobility, to support gender equality and to increase the share of women among academic staff, i.e. university teachers and researchers.
The project partners are the German Education Union (GEW), the British University and College
Union (UCU), and the Swedish Association of University Teachers (SULF). Find the strategy paper here
11/4/2012
World Health Day on April 7
Every year all over the world, the World Health Day is celebrated on April 7 to mark the funding of the World Health Organisation(WHO) in 1948. Each year the WHO selects a theme that is given a high priority. The topic of World Health Day in 2012 is Ageing and Health with the theme "Good health adds life to years". WHO focuses in particularly on how good health throughout life can help older men and women lead full and productive lives and be a resource for their families and communities. More information about the World Health Day can be found here. You can also download the report "Good health adds life to years: Global brief for World Health Day 2012" which entails sections covering key points, the demographics of ageing, the epidemiology of population ageing and more. Download the report here
4/4/2012
SPI(Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação) promotes 2 international courses (Grundtvig in-service training) in September and November 2012
Both courses are developed in the framework of 2 past Grundtvig projects. Applicants might recieive grants to attend the courses since they are both included in the Grundtvig database. The deadline is on April 30.
1)PECEA (Promoting entrepreneurial culture in adult education) will be held in September.Find more info on the project here and the course programme here.
2)CESSIT (Creativity and Entrepreneurship Seeds for Social Inclusion Trainers) will be held in November. Find more info on the project here and the course programme here
4/4/2012
EU-OSHA invites companies and organisations to become an official partner in their Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2012-13 on ”Working together for risk prevention"
The European Agency for Health and Safety at Work (EU-OSHA) invites international organisations/companies to get substantially involved in their Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2012-13 on ”Working together for risk prevention". If your company/organisation wish to find out more about the campaign and how to become an official EU campaign partner please find more info here
29/3/2012
Stress in the workplace to rise, say 8 out of 10 in major pan-European opinion poll
Job-related stress is a concern for the large majority of the European workforce, concludes EU-OSHA’s 2nd European Opinion Poll on Occupational Safety and Health. Opinions on job-related stress, the importance of occupational safety and health for economic competitiveness and active ageing were measured in the survey, covering over 35,000 interviews in 36 European countries.Find the results across the 36 participating countries here
27/3/2012
Active ageing tomorrow requires good safety and health today
Occupational safety and health has a crucial role to play in securing active ageing through a better and longer working life. That’s the message that the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is looking to communicate during the 2012 European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations. Find more info here
9/3/2012
STRESSLESS Project Team invites Teachers, Professors, Managers and other staff in the Educational Sector
The STRESSLESS project invites people working in the education sector to the training course: "Improving Educators resilience to Stress". The Training course would be held in Riga, Latvia, from the 17th-21st of September. The aim is to reduce stress for employees and for organisations, encourage participants to identity sources of stress within their own workplace and to provide participants with innovative tools and solutions on how to reduce work-related stress in their lives. Find the invitation letter here and registration form and programme here
9/3/2012
Launch of the Social Partners’ Website on the Multi-Sectoral Third-Party Violence Guidelines
The results of the multi-sectoral project (EPSU, UNI EUROPA, ETUCE, HOSPEEM, CEMR, EFEE, EUROCOMMERCE, COESS) in the framework of the European social dialogue on the promotion, awareness- raising and dissemination of the multi-sectoral guidelines to tackle third-party violence and harassment related to work, have been published in 21 EU languages.
Find the website here.
20/2/2012
New report regarding stress related problems from the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has launched their report "Stress prevention at work checkpoints". The report entails a number of practical countermeasures to stress related problems and focuses on how to optimise the working environment.
Find the report here.
2/2/2012
Summary of the ETUC conference on the role of Trade Unions regarding the community strategy on health and safety at work.
With the participation of a vast and diverse range of specialists, the conference "The Community Strategy on Health and Safety at Work: The role of Trade Unions", that took place in Krakow (12-13/12/11) dealt with practices and challenges concerning safety and health at work.
Representatives from the European Parliament and European Commission evaluated the former OSH strategy and presented the new version.
The European social partners had the opportunity to discuss and emphasise their decisive role in developing Health and Safety measures.
Experiences and good practice(s) were explained and debated, in several sectors of work and the role of the Agency in Bilbao and its projects were explicitly described. The work of the Universities and investigators was also presented, stating the “status of the art” concerning OSH.
For all the presentations, please go to "Other Safety and Health Documents from European Social Partners" on the 'OSH Publications page'.
15/12/2011
And the prize goes to; Carmen Losmann from Germany. The film "Work Hard - Play Hard", successfully submitted by Carmen Lossman from Germany won the third Healthy Workplaces Film Award celebrated in the last week of October at the Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK Leipzig). The film is an exploration of modern theories of work organisation and management and also received the prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the FIPRESCI Jury Awards.
For more information on the DOK Leipzig Festival, click here >>For more information on the Healthy Workplaces Film Award, click here >>
02/11/2011
New ECRI Guidelines: In September the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) presented before the 47 member countries of the Council of Europe new guidelines focusing on how to combat anti-Gypsyism. The Guidelines that can be found in the ECRI General Policy Recommendation nr.13 "call for action to stop the segregation of Roma children at schools and integrate them with pupils from the majority population". Please find the press release here and the Guidelines here.
25/11/2011
World Mental Health Day, 10 October: The theme for this years' world mental health day was, 'Investing in Mental Health'. WHO states that far too many countries are not allocating enough financial or human resources to that matter and spend less than 2% of the health budget on mental health. Many low and middle-income countries have less than one mental health specialist per one million citizens. Therefore, investment in the battle for mental health must be increased.WHO on the World Mental Health Day>>EU-OSHA>>13/10/2011
European Week for Safety and Health at Work:EU-OSHA reiterate last years successful event, the European Week and invites all organisations and individuals to participate. European Week is part of the 'Healthy Workplaces' Campaign and events will take place all over Europe from 24-28 October, 2011. For more information on the events and how to participate, click here>>
06/09/2011
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programme: The BBC Radio 4 programme, hosted by Jenni Murray takes up the issue of cyber-bullying and discuss the impact of online abuse on the teaching profession. To listen to the broadcast please click here >>
27/09/2011
EU-OSHA: As younger workers often are inexperienced, and ignorant of risks to themselves as well as others, they are more vulnerable workers. Therefore, it is important to stress the necessity of integrating safety and health into education, as well as important for employers to pay a special attention to the safety of younger workers >>
04/10/2011
Dr. Christa Sedlatschek new EU-OSHA Director from mid-September: When the current Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work retires by September 15, 2011 he will be followed by Dr. Christa Sedlatschek who has been selected for the position by the Governing Board of the Agency.Dr. Sedlatschek has stated that she will pay a special attention to four priority areas; (1) Getting the message across and strengthening the marketing of occupational safety and health (OSH) as a 'benefit for all'; (2) To stimulate the establishment of a preventive OSH culture in Europe; (3)To network and cooperate with key stake holders to develop and disseminate information that can be of use in their work at European and national level and; (4) To mainstream OSH into other policy areas such as education and training. To read the full press release and a further description of the new Director please follow this link >>
26/07/2011
EU-OSHA Annual Report 2010: The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has published their annual report. The report highlights the work carried out by the agency in 2010 to protect the safety and health of European workers in spite of the problematic economic situation. The report is in English, but the summary of the report is available in 24 European languages. To read the full report or the summary >>
08/07/2011
European Parliament:During the 4 July plenary the European Parliament adopted a resolution and a set of actions to raise citizens' awareness of 112 and improve its functioning.
The EU Emergency Number that was created in 1991 and functions in all EU countries is still, nevertheless unknown to 75 % of the EU citizens. Therefore, the Parliament through the resolution, calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the use of information and communication technologies by emergency services. A set of initiatives have been proposed by MEP's to improve regulation, foster sharing of best practices and effective allocate EU funds. To read more about the European Emergency Number Association and their position on the matter, please click here >>
05/07/2011
Framework Agreement on Work-Related Stress: The European Social Partners' framework agreement has been translated into various EU languages and is now available on the ETUC website >>
30/06/2011
Healthy Workplaces Film Award 2011: For the third consecutive year, the European Agency for Safety and Health at work (EU-OSHA) is inviting directors to submit their films that deals with the risks that people face at their workplace (such as physical, chemical, mechanical or psychosocial risks). The deadline for submission is 10 July 2011 and the winner will be endowed with an 8,000 Euro prize fund. Please go the EU-OSHA site for more information regarding this film award >>
19/05/2011
6 week online course for professionals in health and education and academics who are interested in strategies to overcome bullying and cyberbullying: This course on 'Working with relationships to reduce school bullying" has been accredited by the University of Surrey at level 3 and at Masters level. Download the flyers with more information on the Level 3 course or the Level M course
18/05/2011
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New 'Teachtoday' survey available online: To find out more about education professionals’ use of digital technologies and their concerns regarding their - and their students’ - online safety and privacy the 'Teachtoday' network has launched a new survey. Go to their website to fill out the survey that is available in six different languages (EN, CZ, DE, ES, IT, RO) >>
18/05/2011
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EU-OSHA launches their second European Photo Competition: This competition seeks to promote awareness on healthy workplaces and risk prevention at work. EU-OSHA invites entrants to picture how risk prevention is viewed by people throughout the EU27 and beyond. The deadline for submission is 31. August 2011. For more information >>
03/05/2011
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First IADIS International Workshop on the Transgressive Uses of Collaborative Systems 2011, (TUCS 2011), Rome, Italy, 23 July 2011:
This workshop welcomes research in the areas including but not restricted to the following themes:
Stalking and cyberharassment, Online Bullying, Discrimination, exploitation and infringement of Human rights, Fraudulent activity and theft, Misrepresentation of others online, Coercion for sexual or financial purposes, Inadvertent, anti social behaviour in online environments, Techniques, remedies and challenges in prevention of harm
This is a blind peer-reviewed workshop.
Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 29 April 2011
- Notification to Authors: 30 May 2011
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 20 June 2011
- Late Registration: After 20 June 2011
- Workshop: Rome, Italy, 23 July 2011
Please go to the website for the conference for more information >>
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Report with findings and policy implications from the EU Kids Online Survey is here: Funded by the EC Safer Internet Programme from 2009-2011 this report, based on the final dataset for all 25 countries, presents the final full findings for EU Kids Online Deliverable D4: Core findings to the European Commission Safer Internet Programme. The project aims to enhance knowledge of European children’s and parents’ experiences and practices regarding risky and safer use of the Internet and new online technologies in order to inform the promotion among national and international stakeholders of a safer online environment for children. To download the report and for more information please click here >>
14/02/2011
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Safer Internet Day, 8 February 2011: This flagship project supported by the Commission's Safer Internet Programme will be celebrated in 65 countries all over the world aiming to inform children, parents and teachers on how to be safe online. This years topic: "Internet - it's more than a game, it's your life!" will be the outline of the discussion on the way children present themselves on the web in spaces ranging from social networks to role-playing games. To find out more about what is going on in your country go to http://www.sidfair.org
For more information about the Safer Internet Program please click here>>
07/02/2011
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Women at work, European Agency for Safety and Health at work (EU-OSHA) seminar, December 9, 2010:
ETUCE was invited to this event as an occupational health and safety expert to participate in the debate related to the subject of women at work. This is of particular importance to the ETUCE as raising awareness of gender equality amongst our member organisation is one of the specific objectives in the work of the ETUCE. As this seminar more specifically revolved around women at work in relations to the issue of health, which combines two of the working areas of the ETUCE.
A series of short presentations focused on research, practice and policy implications and lead to discussion amongst the participants on the concerns. The seminar also provided the participants an opportunity to suggest some priorities for research, actions and some concrete ways forward for occupational health and safety strategies.
Previous research carried out by EU-OSHA has shown that inequality both inside and outside the workplace can have a negative effect on the health and safety of women at work and thus have an impact on their productivity. A major problem within the research in the field of safety and health at work, is that “emerging” female professions to a wide extend are not well covered in data collections. For this reason, and many others, EU-OSHA, as well as ETUCE wishes to continue their work to improve conditions for women at work.
For more information, please go the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work’s site on Women and Health at Work >>
18/01/2011
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ENETOSH Network Event: During the Belgian Occupational Safety and Health week in November 2010, the European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safety and Health (ENETOSH) arranged a special network event with the theme: “Violence in the education sector”. ETUCE, participated and presented our "Action plan on preventing and tackling violence in the education sector". Other presentations were given by Dr. Ulrike Bollmann, ENETOSH & Sarah Copsey, EU-OSHA, Prof. Peter Smith, Goldsmith College, University of London, Penny Clarke, European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), and Célia Chamiça, European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE), all of which evolved around the issue of violence within the education sector. All presentations can now be found on the ENETOSH website (www.enetosh.net), please follow this link >>
13/01/2011
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Help wanted: The ETUCE is asking its member organisations for support in identifying 500 schools from primary/secondary education and Vocational Education and Training and their respective teachers to participate in the Online-Survey on Work-Related Stress (WRS). >>
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Work-Related Stress III: ETUCE has received a grant agreement from the European Commission to launch a study in 500 schools in the EU/EFTA countries on teachers' work-related stress. ETUCE has previously carried out two other projects on work-related stress amongst teachers concentrating on the establishment and implementation of the ETUCE Action Plan on Work-Related Stress to support its member organisations to continue implementing the European Framework Agreement on Work-Related Stress in the education sector. Please follow this link to read more about this new project as well as the previous ones >>
10/01/2011
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EU-OSHA Hand-over Ceremony: On the one-day Safe Maintenance Conference “Do it safely”, a short ceremony was arranged to honour all new official partners of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2010-11 on Safe Maintenance a new Campaign partner,
ETUCE participated at this event and we are very excited to participate in the events arranged by the
Healthy Workplaces Campaign. For ETUCE it is of great importance to be a partner in the Campaign in
order to disseminate and communicate the interest's issues as concerns health and safety of school
staff.
29/11/2010
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EU-OSHA and the Belgian EU Presidency promote safe maintenance: On a one-day conference called “Maintenance: Do It Safely” EU-OSHA and the Belgian EU-Presidency joined forces to show how safe maintenance can save lives. The conference coincides with the release of the EU-OSHA report 'Safe Maintenance in Practice', which outlines the key strategies businesses should adopt to avoid any maintenance risks. Please go the EU-OSHA website for the press-release, as well as the report and a factsheet >>
26/11/2010
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Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies: IGS Launches Information Campaign on Gender-based Violence among Young People
Within the framework of the Daphne III project ‘Perspective’, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies [MIGS] is launching an awareness raising campaign on gender-based violence in interpersonal relationships. The main aim of the campaign is to inform young people and the general public on the different forms of gender based violence as experienced in intimate and other interpersonal adolescent relationships. The campaign with the main slogan ‘Violence is never justified! Let’s build healthy relationships today!’ aims to challenge the culture of ‘victim blaming’ that places responsibility for acts of violence on the victim rather than the perpetrator. It also calls on young people to assume responsibility and take action to combat those behaviors and social perceptions that form the root cause of gender-based violence, and to build healthy relationships based on mutual respect, tolerance, and equality.
The media campaign consists of radio and TV spots that will be aired during November 2010, as well as the production of promotional material that will be disseminated among secondary school students and youth groups. During this period MIGS will also be visiting secondary schools in Nicosia to inform and sensitize students on gender-based violence and its devastating effects on their current and future relationships.
The campaign’s media sponsors are Radio Proto and To Periodiko.
TO VIEW THE CAMPAIGN’S TV SPOT PLEASE CLICK HERE.
For more information please contact Georgina Christou at georgina@medinstgenderstudies.org.
08/11/2010
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Winner of the Healthy Workplaces Film Award 2010 announced!
On Friday EU-OSHA Director Jukka Takala awarded the documentary film All That Glitters as the winner of the Healthy Workplaces Film Award for the year 2010. The award is presented at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. The nominees can now be found on the EU-OSHA website. Read more about the winning movie and the Healthy Workplaces Film Award here>>
24/09/2010
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Week 43: European Week for Safety and Health at Work is here!
All over Europe the European Week for Safety and Health at Work is being celebrated with various events and activities to promote the importance of safe maintenance and healthy workplaces. Find out more about the event and how to participate here>>
27/10/2010
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European social partners agree on guidelines to tackle third-party violence and harassment at work
On 30 September ETUCE and other trade unions' organisations and EU-level employers' signed the Guidelines to help tackle third-party violence and harassment at work. Read more 04/10/2010
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New European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) Publication:
This newly published report suggests that economic incentives pay dividends for workplace safety and health. The report, which builds on research carried out by EU-OSHA, suggests that economic incentive schemes encouraging companies to invest in risk prevention are a cost-effective option for governments looking to cut the numbers of work-related accidents and illnesses. The report and a factsheet in 22 languages can be found here.
01/10/2010
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European Social Dialogue: Multi-Sectoral Guidelines to tackle third-party violence and harassment related to work:
The Multi-Sectoral Guidelines are now available! ETUCE has in cooperation with EPSU, Uni–Europa and EFEE, HOSPEEM, CEMR, Euro Commerce, and CoESS contributed to this significant publication. The purpose of the Guidelines is to ensure that each workplace has a results-oriented policy which addresses the issue of third-party violence. The Guidelines set out the practical steps that can be taken by employers, workers and their representatives /trade unions in their attempt to avert and diminish the effects of third-party violence and harassment related to work.
The Guidelines can now be found here in English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish and Russian.
30/09/210
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Healthy Workplaces Film Award 2010:
EU-OSHA is sponsoring the Healthy Workplaces Film Award for the best documentary on work-related topics. The award is presented at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. The nominees can now be found on the EU-OSHA website.Read more>>
24/09/2010
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Tragedy: Worker dies during demolition at boarding school.
A building worker was killed while demolishing a building on a Shropshire boarding school. The worker was suffocated when the roof, which weighed 2.4 tonnes, fell on top of him. Four other men, who were also inside the building survived without serious injuries due to the chance positioning of a dumper which was parked inside part of the building, creating an escape route. The school failed to make any reasonable enquiries into the competence of the men to undertake the demolition work prior to the work beginning and has now been fined £25,000. Read more>>
13/09/2010
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