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European Safe Start Summit

The Closing Event of the Safe Start campaign (Bilbao, Spain, 22nd March 2007)

Final programme available in PDF version

Foreword by Jukka Takala and Rudolf Anzinger

Abstract and presentations from the workshops and plenary (where available) accessible from the programme below

PROGRAMME


9.30 – 10.30 : OPENING SESSION

Chair: Jukka Takala, Director, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. Speech

Welcome by: Rudolf Anzinger, EU German Presidency, State Secretary - Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

Juan José Loroño, Vice-Minister for Employment and Social Security, Basque Government

Opening statements:

  • European Commission – Employment, Social Affairs & Equal Opportunities – Nikolaus van der Pas, Director General,
  • ETUC – Luis F. Do Nascimento Lopes , Vice-General Secretary of the Portuguese Teachers’ Union (SINDEP) and a member of the Board of UGT Portugal.
  • BUSINESSEUROPE - Kris De Meester, Chairperson of the Health and Safety Working Group

10.30-10.45: COFFEE BREAK

10.45 – 13.30: WORKSHOPS

The morning workshops provide an opportunity for discussion and exchange of information and experiences. The results of these discussions will be used as an input into the afternoon session.

Workshop 1: The challenge of integrating OSH into education – new approaches

Chair and Rapporteur: J Koning, Employer Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board

Presentations:

  1. Integrating health and safety risk education into undergraduate engineering courses – University of Liverpool experience - Graham Schleyer, Liverpool University, UK (Abstract in English)
  2. Practical training in risk assessment for vocational students - Bernard Leseux, CRAM Alsace-Moselle, France (Abstract in English)
  3. Källby Gård – a secure and safe school (physical and psychosocial environment) - Eva Cardell, Källby Gård, Sweden (Abstract in English)

Discussants:

Juliane Bir, ETUC
Jon Bilbao, Confebask

Workshop 2: Young workers – the facts behind the statistics

Chair and Rapporteur: Gertrud Breindl, Government Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board

Presentations:

  1. Youth accident and ill health trends from the Risk Observatory - Elke Schneider, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (Abstract in English)
  2. Surveillance of work-related injuries to teens in the United States: putting data to work in Massachusetts - Letitia Davis, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, USA (Abstract in English)
  3. Child labour in Europe - Gianni Paone, CGIL, Italy (Abstract in English)

Discussants:

Lauren Vogel, ETUI-REHS Health and Safety Department
Andreas Lill, European Federation of Cleaning Industries (EFCI)

Workshop 3: Workplace Prevention Initiatives

Chair and Rapporteur: Fergus Whelan, Worker Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board.

Presentations:

  1. Occupational safety for young workers at SPAR - Jörg Schielin, SPAR, Austria (Abstract in English)
  2. Godfathers for new bus drivers - older workers support their younger counterparts - Eva Tuominen, FIOH, Finland (Abstract in English)
  3. Young employees – a safe start in GSK Poznań - Zuzanna Kaleta-Michalak , GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Poznań, Poland (Abstract in English)

Discussants:

Carmelo Plaza Baonza, CC.OO. Madrid, Spain
Kris De Meester, BUSINESSEUROPE

13.30 – 15.00 : LUNCH BREAK


15.00 – 16.40 : AFTERNOON SESSION

Chair: Christa Schweng, Chairperson of the Agency’s Governing Board

Presenter: Paul Kells

Keynote speaker
“Passport to Safety”  - Paul Kells, Executive Director of the Passport to Safety Programme, Canada

Showing of runner-up in Film Competition
Lycée professionnel du Nivolet, France
"Les risques cachés"
Watch the video on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSzw932s2hs

Reports from the morning workshops:

  1. Workshop 1: The challenge of integrating OSH into education – new approaches

J Koning, Employer Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board

  1. Workshop 2: Young workers – the facts behind the statistics

Gertrud Breindl, Government Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board

  1. Workshop 3: Workplace prevention initiatives

Fergus Whelan, Worker Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board

Showing of runner-up in Film Competition
Zespół Szkół im. Ignacego Łukasiewicza w Nowej Sarzynie, Poland
“Nie niszcz marzeń” (“Don’t destroy dreams”)
Watch the video on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqiFyjmbzqA

Keynote speaker:  
The Bilbao Project - Promotion de la culture de prévention des risques professionnels parmi les jeunes futurs travailleurs dès la scolarité - Serge Dufour, Françoise Racine and Françoise Lignier, Lycées, Montbeliard, France

Showing of runner-up in Film Competition

CEUS, Center for Erhverv og Uddannelse Storstrøm, Denmark
“Right or Wrong? – How to behave in the kitchen”
Watch the video on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVI7g3fHUMs

16.40 – 17.00: REFRESHMENT BREAK

Keynote speaker:  
AdRisk – Community action on adolescent and injury risk - Ursula Loewe, KfV, Austria

Presentations by 2 of the Good Practice Award winners

Presentation by Film Competition winner
“Il gioco della vita (“The game of life”)
Istituto Técnico Industriale Statale “Nullo Baldini”, Ravenna, Italy
Watch the video on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwaJGKxu8Uw

Closing speech:

Antonio González, General Secretary of Employment, Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, Spanish Government

17.50 – 18.30: AWARDS PRESENTATIONS

Presentation of Awards:

Antonio González, General Secretary of Employment, Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, Spanish Government

Jiri Mastalka, MEP (Czech Republic)
Francoise Castex, MEP (France)
Csaba Ory, MEP (Hungary)

  • Good Practice Awards.
  • ‘Safe Start’ European Young Film Maker of the Year. 

 Closing remarks

Jukka Takala, Director, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (Speech)

Further information

Abstracts book available in PDF version

Booklet of all the ‘Safe Start’ Good Practice Awards examples

‘Safe Start’ European Young Film Maker of the Year videos available on You Tube

Our partners
President of FIEC
"Health and Safety has been high on the agenda of the construction industry for a very a long time. It is everyone's responsibility to avoid accidents on construction sites, which typically range from falls from heights to the unsafe handling of dangerous substances. FIEC re-confirms its long-standing and ongoing determination to contribute to a continuous real improvement in the sector's health and safety record among young construction workers. This will have a leverage effect on all construction site workers."

Wilhelm Küchler, President of FIEC