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Did
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In
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Health Administration conducted almost 40,000 inspections, an increase of more
than 2000 inspections over 2002 levels; more than half focused on high-hazard
industries.
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Annually
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Others suffer ill health, often irreversible, from exposure to
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poorly controlled activities and sites.
Employers
and employees have obligations to work competently and ensure that no-one
is harmed by their activities. This year there is a greater emphasis being
put on the challenge to eliminate deaths in construction industry.
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HSE
in the UK are reviewing and revising their Construction Design and
Management Regulations [in place since 1995].
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The
European Week for Safety and Health at Work will focus on the
construction sector - using the slogan ‘Building
in Safety’ - and will take place on the 18–22 October 2004.
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Buildsafe – NI Initiative aims to eliminate deaths and reduce
major injuries through improved management and application of H&S.
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health and safety training”.
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proceeding in a manner that ensure that such harm will not be realised.
There is no dichotomy between the skills required to do a job and
health & safety matters. Competence
is negated if on the production of a quality end product, the worker
and/or his colleagues have been exposed to hazards, whether or not any
harm occurred. Competence is
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end product, and the skill in getting there requires that no one be
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Up
and coming conferences.
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Session
# 71:
Safety in Design - A Risk Assessment Approach
Session # 119:
Highway Work Zones - A Safe Method of Working |
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06/06/2004:
7th World Conference on Injury
Prevention and Safety Promotion
Available
in: Español Dansk
Deutsch Ellinika
English
Français Italiano Nederlands
Português Suomi
Svenska
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16/06/2004:
X2004 - Exposure Assessment in a
Changing Environment
Available
in: Español Dansk
Deutsch Ellinika
English
Français Italiano Nederlands
Português Suomi
Svenska
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11/07/2004:
Living in a Safe Chemical World, The
10th International Congress of Toxicology, ICTX
Available
in: Español Dansk
Deutsch Ellinika
English
Français Italiano Nederlands
Português Suomi
Svenska
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31/08/2004:
2nd International WORKINGONSAFETY.NET
Conference for the prevention of accidents and trauma at
work
Available
in: Español Dansk
Deutsch Ellinika
English
Français Italiano Nederlands
Português Suomi
Svenska
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10/11/2004:
EurOhse2004 - Health in the Workplace
Available
in: Español Dansk
Deutsch Ellinika
English
Français Italiano Nederlands
Português Suomi
Svenska
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30/11/2004:
6th International Congress on Work
Injuries Prevention, Rehabilitation and Workers Compensation
(WorkCongress6)
Available
in: Español Dansk
Deutsch Ellinika
English
Français Italiano Nederlands
Português Suomi
Svenska
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25/01/2005:
International Conference on
Occupational Health Services 2005
Available
in: Español Dansk
Deutsch Ellinika
English
Français Italiano Nederlands
Português Suomi
Svenska
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Occupational and Environmental
Exposures of Skin to Chemicals- 2005
(12/06/2005)
Details
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XVIIth World Congress on Safety and
Health at Work (18/09/2005)
Details
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5th - 6th May
2004 - HazMat 2004 Conference
A two-day
conference on the latest directions and compliance requirements for
chemicals, hazardous substances and dangerous goods.
Cost: Non Members
$770, Members $660, Distance Registrations $550
Rydges Riverwalk -
Melbourne
Fire Protection Association Australia
Contact: Amy
Rydges Riverwalk,
649 Bridge Richmond,
Melbourne, Victoria 3121.
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23rd - 25th August 2004 - 40th Conference of the Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society of Australia AND 7th Conference of the Pan
Pacific Council on Occupational Ergonomics
Cairns
International Hotel,
Cairns, Queensland
Australia.
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA) AND
The Pan Pacific Council on Occupational Ergonomics (PPCOE).
Contact Rachael
Glover
Creeda Business Centre, 281 Goyder St
NARRABUNDAH ACT 2604
Australia
Ph: +61 2 6295 5959
Fax: +61 2 6295 5946
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15-17 September
2004 - 7th Australian Injury Prevention and Control Conference and
2nd Pacific Rim Safe Communities Conference
- Pool expertise
across professional and national boundaries.
- Gain a richer understanding of what safety is and how it is
achieved.
- Discover new insights into the meaning of risk and the means of
controlling risk.
Mackay Entertainment Centre,
Mackay Queensland.
Australian Injury Prevention Network
Contact Maria
Lamari, Conference Secretariat.
PO Box 3090,
Norman Park.
Queensland 4170.
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13-15 October 2004
- Epicoh 2004
The Scientific
Committee on Epidemiology in Occupational Health under the
International Commission of Occupational Health (ICOH) was
established in 1980.
Come to Melbourne, Australia, October 13-15 2004 for the 17th
International Symposium on Epidemiology in Occupational Health.
Monash University
To register:
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19 - 22 April 2005 The 10th International Conference on
Occupational Respiratory Diseases (10th ICORD)
The Conference
theme is “Occupational Respiratory Hazards in the 21st Century:
Best Practices for Prevention and Control”.
Beijing, China
The Conference is organized by the ILO in collaboration with the
Ministry of Health of China, with the participation of the WHO, the
International Commission on Occupational Health(ICOH) and the
International Occupational Hygiene Association(IOHA).
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The 10th International Conference on Occupational Respiratory
Diseases (10th ICORD) Secretariat c/o International Health Exchange
and Cooperation Center (IHECC) Ministry of Health, China 1 Xi Zhi
Men Wai Nan Lu Beijing 100044, China
Ph: +86-10-68792527
Fax: +86-10-68792528
To register: +86-10-68792528
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Safe and healthy work
at the heart of an enlarged social Europe
The
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has congratulated the
Slovenian government on its success in setting up a tripartite national
information network to promote safer and healthier working conditions
Raising the standards of
safety and health at work is a key element of Europe’s unique Social
Model,’ says Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, Director of the Agency.
‘Slovenia has already transposed the EU’s comprehensive safety and
health directives into national legislation. The main challenge now is
to ensure that these legal standards are converted into real
improvements in working conditions. The Agency is looking forward to
support this process and in partnership with its Slovenian network
partners to develop safe, healthy and productive workplaces across an
enlarged Europe.’
Mr Konkolewsky was
speaking during a visit to Ljubljana at which he met Minister dr.
Dimovsky and leading members of the Agency’s national information
network. The network, which brings together representatives from
employers’ and workers’ organisations as well as governmental
institutions, is coordinated by the Ministry of Labour, the Agency’s
Slovenian focal point.
One of the Agency’s main
roles is to organise the flow of information on occupational safety and
health (OSH) throughout the EU, enabling workers, employers and
authorities to have access to state-of-the-art knowledge, especially
examples of ‘good practice’ solutions to the main safety and health
problems. To fulfil this vital function the Agency has established
network of more than 30 partners in Europe and worldwide which over past
two years has grown to include all acceding countries. This network is
linked electronically via the Agency’s family of websites, providing
the world’s most comprehensive source of OSH information (
http://osha.eu.int).
Amongst the information
activities of the Agency and its focal points in 2004 are:
- A
Europe-wide information campaign targeting the construction sector.
- The
provision of good safety and health practice in the agriculture
sector.
- A
study of the effectiveness of economic incentives to encourage
improvements in safety and health.
- Preparation
for an information campaign in 2005 on noise at work.
Key facts about safety
and health and physical risks and working conditions in the accession
countries
According to the most
recent figures from the International Labour Organisation (2002):
- the
incidence rate of work-related fatalities in the accession countries
(not including Cyprus) is almost three times higher than in the
EU-15 (9.6 per 100,000 persons in employment compared to 3.4 per
100,000 in the EU-15).
- The
work-related absence rate (over a three-day period) is also
approximately three times higher for accession countries (not
including Cyprus) than for the EU-15.
According to recent
European research (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and
Working Conditions, 2003)
- 40%
of accession and candidate countries’ (ACC) workers believe their
health and safety is at risk due to work, compared to only 27% in
the EU-15.
- Workers
in the ACC report significantly higher exposure to various physical
risk factors such as dangerous substances/fumes and noise.
- A
higher proportion of these workers (41%) report suffering from
fatigue as a result of their work compared to their counterparts in
the EU-15 (23%)
- Workers
in the ACC work longer hours, the average time being 44.4 hours per
week compared to the EU-15 average of 38.2.
- 38%
of ACC workers work more than 45 hours per week compared to only 21%
in the EU-15.
- Unsocial
working hours (such as night work or shift work) are more prevalent
in the ACC.
2. -The self reported
accident rates in the ACC’s for a number of other health problems
mirror those of the EU15 including stress (28%), Backache (34% ACC’s;
33% EU-15), muscular pains in neck and shoulder (23%)
- However, better
information on physical risk at the workplaces in the ACC’s than in
the EU15.
3. Article 31 of the European
Union Charter of Fundamental Rights , signed at the Nice
summit in December 2000, addresses the issue of fair
and just working conditions . The article reads as
follows: ‘1. Every worker has the right to working conditions which
respect his or her health, safety and dignity. 2. Every worker has the
right to limitation of maximum working hours, to daily and weekly rest
periods and to an annual period of paid leave.’ (EN 18.12.2000
Official Journal of the European Communities C 364/15).
4. In March 2000, at the
Lisbon Summit, the European Union set out a new strategic goal for the
next decade: ‘to become the most competitive and dynamic
knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic
growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.’
5. Adapting to Change in
Work and Society: A new Community strategy on health and safety at work
2002-2006 calls for ‘an effective transfer of experience and
knowledge’ between existing Member States and the accession countries.
Specific attention needs to be paid to the strengthening of technical
assistance programmes, using partnership and twinning arrangements, to
integrating the accession countries into the relevant EU institutions
and bodies and to promoting social dialogue at all levels, particularly
in firms.
Source:
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (Press Release)
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