Forum
The Forum series addresses specific issues in safety and health, and aims to provide information and promote discussion. In particular, they report on the outcome of seminars and workshops, in which specific questions and live issues in occupational safety and health are debated, especially around Agency campaign themes.
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published 14.07.2008
- This Forum publication reports on the workshop, ‘Working safely in a multicultural HORECA sector’, which was held in Bilbao, Spain from 26-27 February 2007. Its aims were to identify the main occupational safety and health problems of the hotel, restaurant and catering sector’s multicultural workforce, before moving on to share good practice and develop approaches to solve their problems. The HORECA sector has a high proportion of migrant workers, many of whom have few vocational qualifications and poor language skills. Working conditions in the sector are often poor, exposing workers to many hazards that may damage their health. These include musculoskeletal disorders, dermatological problems and respiratory problems.
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published 09.08.2006
- The 2005 noise at work summit was jointly organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and the United Kingdom Presidency of the European Union as the culmination of the 2005 ‘Stop that noise!’ campaign on the eve of the 2003 noise directive coming into force. EU policymakers, social partners and leading safety and health experts met to consider worker protection from occupational noise and to reward organisations that have already managed to implement effective solutions.
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published 25.07.2006
- The two-day seminar was structured around two sessions. The aim of the fi rst session was to elaborate a consensus list of top OSH research priorities for the next fi ve years on the basis of the above mentioned report and of expert forecasts on emerging OSH risks carried out by the Agency and its Topic Centre. The second session provided the opportunity to bring together representatives from existing EU-wide networks (such as New OSH ERA, PEROSH, and the Agency’s Topic Centres) to explore ways of achieving closer cooperation in order to promote the inclusion of OSH issues in FP7 and coordinate possible actions under that scheme.
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published 20.07.2005
- ’Economic incentives’ aim to stimulate enterprises to invest in management of occupational safety and health (OSH) by making it more financially attractive. They are potentially strong instruments in driving companies towards safety and health excellence because they reinforce the link with protability.
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published 17.06.2005
- The European Week for Safety and Health at Work in 2004 focused on the construction industry. It was launched in April 2004 and is the largest occupational safety and health campaign ever to take place in Europe, with over 30 countries taking part. The national campaigns were promoted under the slogan ‘Building in safety’. This first pan-European campaign was significant as it coincided with the entry of 10 new Member States into the European Union.
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published 31.05.2004
- The European Week for Safety and Health at Work in 2003 focused on reducing the risks arising from the use of dangerous substances. It was launched in May 2003, and spread out across the European Union Member States and EU candidate and EFTA countries with national campaigns promoted under the slogan ‘Dangerous substances — Handle with care!’.
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published 06.05.2004
- As a part of an Agency project about existing monitoring systems of occupational safety and health in the EU Member States, the Agency jointly organised with the Danish EU Presidency a workshop on occupational safety and health (OSH) monitoring systems, in Bilbao. The aim of the workshop was to present an overview of OSH monitoring systems in place in the EU Member States and of EU systems and to identify needs and options for future common approaches to monitoring occupational safety and health.
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published 07.05.2003
- This Forum publication summarises the results of a seminar (15 October 2002, Paris) organised within the framework of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work’s activities for the European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2003, which focuses on the prevention of risks arising from dangerous substances. It is one element in a selection of products that the Agency publishes to support EU Member States in their local activities relating to the European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2003.
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published 25.03.2003
- The European Week for Safety and Health at Work in 2002 focused on the prevention of psychosocial risks. It was launched at the European Parliament on 2 July 2002 and spread out across Europe with Member State schemes. This initiative was the first pan-European campaign to address this issue, and it has been the most high profile and popular event run by the Agency to date.
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published 23.07.2002
- The aim of the seminar was to provide an EU perspective on integrating — or ‘mainstreaming’ — occupational safety and health (OSH) into education. This topic is of growing importance across the Member States, as statistics have revealed that younger workers (aged between 18 and 24) are on average 1.4 times more likely to have a work-related accident as compared with other workers.
