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The film should deal with risks that people face at their workplace (such as physical, chemical, mechanical or psychosocial risks). It could also deal with workers' rights, workplace health and safety or the effects of political and economic change on the way we work. Another focus could be on sectors playing an important part in the economic, cultural and political life in Europe (i.e. education, agriculture, construction, health care); or on groups facing particular challenges, such as migrant workers, women, disabled workers, young workers and ageing workers.
The Healthy Workplaces Film Award is given to an authored creative and artistic documentary, fostering debate and discussion among European citizens on the importance of safety and health at work. The film should have a specific point of view that convinces the jury by its compelling storytelling, strong characters and excellent filmmaking skills regarding camera work, sound and montage.
The winner of the Healthy Workplaces Film Award shall grant EU-OSHA the right, free of charge, to
- place a trailer or an excerpt of the winning film of up to five minutes and stills (pictures) on the EU-OSHA website, in press releases or in the EU-OSHA newsletter.
- show and present the trailer or the winning film in its entirety at non-public and non-commercial events organised by EU-OSHA and its network of Focal Points in the EU, EEA, and candidate and potential candidate countries.
- have the winning film subtitled in a selection of European languages and to grant EU-OSHA the non-exclusive, non-commercial and non-theatrical license right to provide access (on a login protected electronic platform) to the above mentioned network and to other official partners.
In return, the rights for the subtitles can be obtained by the filmmaker/rights holder of the winning film free of charge for further use.
What types of good practice can be entered?
Any real-life examples of how work-related stress and psychosocial risks have been effectively managed may be entered. Entries should clearly show how good practice has been applied in the workplace (hypothetical examples will not be considered) and may include evidence of:
- a thorough assessment of psychosocial risks in the workplace, followed by practical activities aimed at preventing or reducing psychosocial risks, implemented with a participative approach;
- organisational actions aimed at reducing work-related stress, including primary (eliminating risks), secondary (protecting workers from the risks that cannot be eliminated) and tertiary (helping workers who suffer from stress and psychosocial problems) levels of intervention;
- organisational interventions focused on the role of top and middle managers in creating a good psychosocial work environment;
- the implementation of a holistic approach to occupational safety and health, including the assessment and management of psychosocial risks and mental health promotion in the workplace;
- the development and implementation of practical tools for the assessment and management of stress and psychosocial risks in the workplace.
What should an entry demonstrate?
Judges will be looking for evidence of:
- genuine and effective management of psychosocial risks and work-related stress;
- innovative interventions aimed at the workplace;
- the successful implementation of interventions;
- real and demonstrable improvements in safety and health;
- workforce diversity being taken into account;
- effective participation and involvement of the workforce and their representatives;
- the sustainability of the intervention over time;
- transferability to other workplaces (including those in other Member States and to small and medium-sized enterprises);
- timeliness (the intervention should be either recent or not widely publicised).
In addition, the intervention should meet, and ideally exceed, the relevant legislative requirements of the Member State in which it has been implemented. Interventions focused on the individual, such as training, should also demonstrate how they are a part of a wider approach to managing psychosocial risks at work.
Good practice examples should not have been developed solely for commercial gain. This relates to products, tools or services that are or could be marketed.
Who can take part?
Good practice entries are welcomed from enterprises or organisations in EU Member States, candidate countries, potential candidate countries and the European Free Trade Association, including:
- individual enterprises;
- enterprises or organisations within the product, equipment or personnel supply chain;
- training providers and the education community;
- employer organisations, trade associations, trade unions and non-governmental organisations;
- regional or local occupational safety and health prevention services, insurance services and other intermediary organisations.
- official partners of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign.
How to participate
The Good Practice Awards are coordinated at the national level by EU-OSHA’s network of focal points. The network partner in your country will provide you with details on how to enter the competition.
Entries are first judged at the national level and national winners are then nominated to take part in the pan-European competition, which will select the overall winners.
If you are a multinational or pan-European organisation and an official partner of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign, you can directly apply to EU-OSHA.
Details of how to enter the Good Practice Awards at the European level can be obtained from gpa [at] healthy-workplaces [dot] eu
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ALL THAT GLITTERS, a film by Czech director Tomas Kudrna, has won the Healthy Workplaces Award for 2010. The film tells the story of a worker at an internationally owned goldmine in an inhospitable region of Kyrgyzstan.
At the outset, the filmmaker expected to find a typical story of Western exploitation of a poor post-Soviet country, but in reality a complex relationship of co-dependency emerged on which the mine was the only ray of hope for the local people. The story highlights the importance of strict safety conditions when dealing with dangerous chemicals to extract gold from rock at altitude, and is set against a backdrop of a decade-old environmental disaster, the repercussions of which are still being felt..
Aly Muritiba's C(US)TODIANS was announced the winner of the 2013 Healthy Workplaces Film Award at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK Leipzig).
This is the fifth time the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) awards a film prize for the best work-related documentary.
C(us)todians, by Brazilian Filmmaker Aly Muritiba, depicts daily life in a Brazilian prison from the guards' point of view, portraying a challenging working environment and fostering discussion on psychosocial risks in the workplace, the theme of EU-OSHA.s next Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2014-2015.
Awarding the film, the jury said: .Hazardous, unpredictable, stressful and uncertain, the filmmaker is so close to the characters that he provides a real sense of belonging, an insider view of the struggle to manage a challenging and potentially explosive work environment. Underfunded, under-resourced and over-worked, the caretakers and custodians are constantly fire-fighting. As the film unfolds through its strong observation, unique access to its characters, distressing sounds and a colour palette to match the shades of grey inside the prison, the main protagonist becomes our guiding 'Guardian Angel'..
More about the film on https://grafoaudiovisual.com/movie/a-gente/
PABLO'S WINTER by Chico Pereira of Spain is the winner of the 2012 Healthy Workplaces Film Award. 
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) presented its fourth film prize at the 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK Leipzig).
The film award promotes the importance of workplace health and safety across Europe by challenging and encouraging filmmakers to create and showcase documentaries on workplace safety and health topics. Chosen from ten nominated films, Pablo.s Winter tells the story of a retired miner, one of the last generation of miners in a now-closed 2,000 year old mercury mine in Spain.
More about the film on https://www.pabloswinter.com/.
WORK HARD - PLAY HARD, a film by Carmen Losmann (Germany), has won the Healthy Workplaces Award for 2011.
Deftly crafted, it is thought-provoking, and inspires us to discuss one of the most important issues of our time – the individuality and personality of today's workforce. In considering modern theories of work organisation and management, it raises the wider issues of the place of the individual.
The film encourages the audience to question our relentless pursuit of the Holy Grail - the motivation, the journey and the destination of maximum productivity and efficiency at all costs.
A BLOOMING BUSINESS by Ton van Zantvoort | The Netherlands 2009 | 52:00 min.
This is where the cheap roses in our flower shops come from: huge farms in Kenya. Images of a disaster illustrate the murderous cost of globalisation and our avarice. We ordinary citizens think that the lovely flowers that decorate our home come from a huge garden. Even when we buy them in supermarkets, a garden is always somehow involved. Wrong! There are no happy cows and there is no garden. Only an industry.
In this case, the flower growing industry, for example in Kenya where the film “A Blooming Business” takes us and shows plainly the murderous conditions under which globalisation works. In Kenya, growing and exporting flowers for the European market is an important source of foreign currency. But at what cost!
Jane talks about it, a single mother of three who labours from seven in the morning until late at night and must sleep with the supervisor to keep her job. Or Agnes, who was fired after the chemicals in the pesticide corroded her face. Or Oskar who was also fired for talking back and has since earned a living as a water seller. But the water he sells is poisoned, because it comes from a lake into which 67 flower farms dump their unfiltered waste water. Talking of water – every rose consumes 1.5 litres per day. Which is why the water level of the lake is sinking, the fish population is shrinking and Kennedy can’t pay his rent. And, and, and ... A cynic is a person who looks for a coffin when he sees flowers – even more after seeing this film.
See the trailer at https://www.newtonfilm.nl/