Final Draft Programme

Closing Event of the European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2006
22^nd March 2007, Bilbao, Spain

Venue: Euskalduna Conference Centre, Bilbao, Spain

8.45 – 9.30 : REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

9.30 – 10.30 : OPENING SESSION

Chair: Jukka Takala, Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

Welcome:

• Rudolf Anzinger, EU German Presidency
  State Secretary - Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales)
• 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, Chairman of the Health and Safety Working Group

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 / Rapporteur:  J Koning: Employer Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board
Presentations:

1. Integrating OSH into University engineering degree course – the Liverpool University experience
   Graham Schleyer, Liverpool University, UK
   
2. Pactical training in risk assessment for vocational wood working students
   Bernard Leseux, CRAM technical college, France
3. Swedish schools project
   Eva Cardell, Källby Gård, Sweden
   

Discussants:
Juliane Bir, ETUC
Jon Bilbao, Confebask

Discussion

WORKSHOP 2: Young workers – the facts behind the statistics

Chair / 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
   
2. Health surveillance of teen workers
   Letitia Davis, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, USA
3. Child labour in Europe
   Gianni Paone, CGIL Italy
   
   

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

Discussion

WORKSHOP 3: Workplace prevention initiatives

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

1. Spar approach to new recruits
   Jörg Schielin, SPAR, Austria
   
2. Godfathers for new bus drivers – older workers support younger ones
   Eva Tuominen, FIOH, Finland
3. GSK ‘s Safe Start for new, young workers
   Zuzanna Kaleta-Michalak, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Poland
   

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

Discussion

13.30 – 15.00 : LUNCH BREAK

15.00 – 16.40 : AFTERNOON SESSION

Chair: Chairperson of the Agency's Governing Board

Presenter: Paul Kells

• Keynote speaker (25 minutes)
  “Passport to Safety”
  Paul Kells, Executive Director of the Passport to Safety Programme, Canada
  
• Showing of runner-up in Film Competition (5 minutes)
  Lycée professionnel du Nivolet, France
  "Les risques cachés"
  
• Reports from the morning workshops: (30 minutes)
  1. Workshop 1: Employer Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board
     
  2. Workshop 2: Gertrud Breindl, Government Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board
     
  3. Workshop 3: Fergus Whelan, Worker Group, member of the Agency’s Governing Board
     
• Showing of runner-up in Film Competition (5 minutes)
  Zespół Szkół im. Ignacego Łukasiewicza w Nowej Sarzynie, Poland
  “Nie niszcz marzeń” (“Don’t destroy dreams”)
• Keynote speaker: (25 minutes)
  Serge Dufour, Françoise Racine and Françoise Lignier, Montbeliard, France
• Showing of runner-up in Film Competition (5 minutes)
  CEUS, Center for Erhverv og Uddannelse Storstrøm, Denmark
  “Right or Wrong? – How to behave in the kitchen”
  

16.40 – 17.00 : Refreshment Break

• Keynote speaker: (20 minutes)
  AdRisk – Community action on adolescent and injury risk
  Ursula Loewe, Austria
  
• Presentations by Good Practice Award winners (2 x 10 minutes)
  
  1. “¡A Salvo!” Campaign - Raising Awareness in Primary Education about Preventing School Risks, Spain
     Manuel Galan Cuesta, Director of the Centro de Seguridad y Salud Laboral de Castilla y León.
     
  2. Agriculture training and competition – Netherlands
     Math Creemers, Stigas
• Presentation by Video Competition winner (10 minutes)
1. Istituto Técnico Industriale Statale “Nullo Baldini”
   “Il gioco della vita” ("The game of life")
   Ravenna, Italy
   

17.50 – 18.30 : AWARDS PRESENTATIONS AND CLOSING STATEMENT

Presentation of Awards

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

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

• Good Practice Awards
• European Young Film Maker of the Year

Closing remarks
Jukka Takala, Director, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

18.30 – 19.45 : DRINKS RECEPTION AND BUFFET