Happy Christmas to all our readers and users of the web-safety and my428 sites. As we start the roll towards the Christmas and New Year festive season many of us are juggling with the requirements of the job, which never seems to get any easier at this time of the year, and the need to prepare for the various holiday celebrations in which ever way we choose to exercise that.

Winter Safety

It is the time of year when safety sites and organisations are issuing seasonal advice and information on how to stay safe throughout the winter months, whether it is in the workplace, the home, or on the journey between either. A few useful sites to help you get started are listed below:

· At Sea, http://www.tc.gc.ca/marinesafety/bulletins/1989/08-eng.htm

· Avian Flu, http://www.hse.gov.uk/biosafety/diseases/avianflu.htm

· Driving, http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/winterdrive/winterdrive.htm

· Driving, http://www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk/advice/winterdriving.htm

· Emergency preparedness, http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/winter/

· Family, http://homeparents.about.com/cs/householdtips/a/winter.htm

· Farms, http://www.gfb.org/safety/winter.htm

· Fire prevention, http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/fire_safety/in_your_home/winter_safety.asp

· General, http://www.thesafetylibrary.com/sites/disaswints.php

· Home, http://www.firekills.gov.uk/leaflets/pdf/english/firesafetywinter.pdf

· Outdoors, http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=186&q=236043

· Retail workers, http://www.usdaw.org.uk/getactive/resource_library/1060316985_20511.html

· Road Workers, http://www.htma.co.uk/hottopics/wintermaintenance.jsp

· Sports Injury prevention, http://www.kidsource.com/safety/winter.sport.safety.html

· Water, http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/Miscellaneous-Articles/winter_safety.html

· Weather advice; http://www.weather.gov/om/winter/index.shtml

As always, if you have useful advice sheets, PPTs, documents etc. that you would like to make widely available, we can post them on Safety Exchange (http://www.web-safety.com/Exchange/index.htm ) or you can join my428 (www.my428.net ) and post them directly yourself as a blog or dedicated club for winter safety.

Web-safety Improvements

If you are a regular users you may not notice the difference except possible that the site may have been down for a few days, but we are pleased to announce that we have increased the bandwidth and memory capacity of our websites, particularly www.web-safety.com and www.my428.net.

As a result of our re-launch of web-safety in 2006 and the launch of my428 in 2007 there is substantially more information available on the site and the my428’s ability to allow users to upload their own material means that we were in danger of crashing out due to lack of memory and overload on demand.

In the past year we have had over 104,000 visitors to the new web-safety. The most popular downloads from the site in that year include;

· 1,555 DSE assessment programs

· 975 safety audit questionnaires

· 850 confined spaces information sheets

· 700 permit to work documents

· 328 Lone worker risk assessments

· 250 copies of “Towards Zero” paper, and

· Over 13,000 PPTs on various topics downloaded from Safety Exchange

Can you find what you want on the site? Let Expert Ease International have your ideas for improvements, new materials to include, services or other suggestions. We will review and endeavour to include those that will aid our users most.

World Safety Congress, Korea, June/July 2008

We have been informed that the Call for Papers deadline has been extended from 30^th November until 31^st December. From the home page (http://www.web-safety.com/ ) you can access the details and the on-line application form.

Expert Ease International are organising the “Risk Management – A Failed Paradigm” symposium and are inviting abstracts from potential participants who have analysed the current theories for ensuring workplace safety and who are or have been developing progressive methods, ideas, theories for the future development of working safely. To date we have received expressions of interest from a round the globe and are confident of an exciting and radical debate on the way forward.

If you are interested in this symposium or any of the other symposia that are being organised submit an abstract to Congress organising committee by the end of December, http://www.safety2008korea.org/eng/call/call_info.jsp.

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