Ideas for action

The European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2006 is an opportunity to participate in the Safe Start campaign to make workplaces safer and healthier for young people at work and for those about to enter the world of work.

Now is your chance to make sure that young people have a safe and healthy start to their working lives, and to promote risk awareness and risk prevention in workplaces and in the education community.

Everyone is invited to join in, however big or small their participation may be. Here are just a few ideas and some actual examples of what individuals and organisations have done in previous European Weeks of Safety and Health.

•  Risk assessments
• Safety demonstrations, displays and exhibitions
• Training events, seminars and workshops
• Poster competitions and quizzes
• Film, video and multimedia
• Advertising and promotion campaigns
• Partnerships between enterprises and schools/colleges/training centres
• Good neighbour schemes between large and small employers
• Suggestion schemes
• Hazard spotting
• Inspection days
• Press conferences and media activities
• Building risk awareness and prevention into other activities 

Here are some more ideas about how you can get involved in the Safe Start campaign - from workplaces to classrooms, to education ministries and OSH authorities, and how enterprises, trades unions and the education community can work together. Ideas have been identified for different groups. If you do not see yourself among these groups, have a look through the ideas anyway - you will probably still find something applicable to you, or an idea or action that could be adapted.

The ideas and actions are followed by actual examples of what individuals and organisations have done in previous European Weeks for Safety and Health at Work

• In the workplace
• In the education community
• Enterprises, trade unions and education working safely together
• Social Partners
• Youth Organisations
• School Pupils
• Parents