About the campaign

The Agency's campaign to combat these hazards

This year’s European Week for Safety and Health at Work will focus on the issue of noise at work, under the slogan, ‘Stop that noise!’, with the tagline, ‘‘Noise at work – it can cost you more than your hearing’. The campaign is backed by all Member States, candidate and EFTA countries, the Luxembourg and United Kingdom EU Presidencies, the European Commission and Parliament, trade unions and employers' federations.

It will include:

-Information packs in all official EU Member State languages;

-Awareness-raising posters and leaflets;

-A multilingual website (including examples of good practice);

-European Good Practice Awards for organisations that have most successfully dealt with the issue of noise at work;

-Special events across Europe to bring the campaign's key messages to life in all organisations, large and small, public and private. In previous campaigns, there have been thousands of EU-wide events, many coordinated by the Agency's network of national focal points in the EU 25 Member States.

The campaign will culminate with the European Week for Safety and Health at Work
24-28 October 2005. All safety and health institutions and organisations, trade unions, companies, managers, employees and safety representatives are invited to take part and organise their own events during this week. These activities can include special audits and risk assessments in the workplace; training; distribution of information about the risk and solutions to noise at work; and schemes that encourage employees and their representatives to participate in the event, including linking up with other organisations.