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The Pompidou Group working on combating drug abuse and drug trafficking has published its final declaration established at the high level Conference "Alcohol, drugs and prevention in the workplace: What are the issues and challenges for the Government, the company and the staff ?" (14-15 May 2012, Strasbourg).

Mutualia (Mutua de Accidentes de Trabajo y Enfermedades Profesionales de la Seguridad Social nº2), por noveno año consecutivo organiza este concurso, con el objetivo de sensibilizar y concienciar a empresarios, trabajadores y a la población en general. 

El espíritu del concurso es destacar a través de la fotografía los valores de la Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, en cualquiera de sus aspectos, mostrando situaciones de riesgo o buenas prácticas preventivas, con la intención de concienciar contra la siniestralidad laboral y conseguir, entre todos, entornos de trabajo más seguros.

The European Year of Active Ageing 2012 is about promoting the quality of life and well-being of older people in Europe, and promoting solidarity between the generations, helping to counter some of the prejudices that exist in relation to older people.

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), theFederal Ministry of Environment, the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) and BASF are initiating a five million EURO project to explore possible long-term effects of nanoparticles. The studies are designed for four years and are based on the test specifications of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). The aim of this study is to enable informed statements about the long-term effect of various commonly used nanomaterials.
 

There is an urgent need to phase out harmful chemicals and replace them with safer alternatives or techniques to reduce adverse health effects and environmental pollution. SUBSPORT, the Substitution Support Portal, is a free-of-charge multilingual web portal providing tools and guidance for substance evaluation and substitution management.
On 24th May 2012, the case story database presenting practical real-case examples of companies and other stakeholders that have done successful substitution work will be launched at the ECHA stakeholder forum in Helsinki.

This handbook represents the culmination of 3 years of work within the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) PRAISE project to promote best practice regarding road safety in the work context.

Management leadership and worker participation are the keys to good safety and health performance at the workplace.
While effective management is about securing the health, safety and welfare of all staff, managers do not have the solutions to all health and safety problems. Workers and their representatives have the detailed knowledge and experience of how the job is done and how it affects them. Therefore workers and managers need to work together closely to find joint solutions to common problems.

To find out more useful information that can help workers and managers to improve workplace safety and health visit our web sections:

Management Leadership
Worker participation
Our Healthy Workplaces Campaign website provides further practical information on the topics.

An international conference devoted to high Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) culture businesses with interests in emerging market countries will take place from 27 to 9 September in the Hungarian capital.

An alcohol interlock programme can be an effective means to prevent recidivism from the part of serious offenders who have previously had their right to drive suspended for drink driving offences. ETSC together with the the Generalitat of Catalonia are setting up an international seminar in Barcelona on the implementation and use of alcohol interlocks, focusing particularly on rehabilitation schemes and voluntary use in commercial transport.

On the 9th of May 1950, Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organised Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations.

EU-OSHA, as a key contributor to healthier, safer and more productive workplaces in Europe, invites European citizens on this 9 May to mainstream occupational safety and health into their daily lives. Napo, our most famous cartoon hero, can give you a lot of good examples on how to do it in an easy and funny way. Safety with a smile against noise, chemicals, maintenance risks, musculoskeletal disorders, cleaning risks, etc.

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