2009-10-01 12:00 - Messages
The Revitalising Health and Safety strategy statement, launched in June 2000, set three national targets for improving health and safety performance by 2010:
• to reduce the incidence rate of fatalities and major injuries by 10%;
• to reduce the incidence rate of cases of work-related ill health by 20%;
• to reduce the number of working days lost per worker from work-related injury and ill health by 30%;
and to achieve half the improvement under each target by 2004.
The best OHS advice, or rather innovative thinking, is frequently coming from those experts from outside the traditional OHS background.
A case in point could be a presentation made by prominent Australian demographer, Bernard Salt, at one of the many Safe Work Australia Week events in South Australia. Salt provided enough information about population changes that OHS professionals and regulators became uneasy about many of the challenges that they will face in the next few decades.
Source: http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/the-demographic-challenges-facing-ohs-management/
At the occasion of the celebration of 125 years of labour inspection in Austria, the Austrian Minister for Labour, Social affairs, and Consumer Protection, Mr. Hundstorfer, presented a resolution regarding the national occupational safety and health strategy. In this resolution, all national actors endeavour to support all efforts in occupational safety and health despite the current economic crisis and its effects.
Source: http://osha.europa.eu/en/news/125-years-of-labour-inspection?sourceid=rss
The yearbook of the German Social Accident Insurance describes the prevention measures taken in the last two years in order to improve OS&H in plants and educational establishments.
Source: http://www.dguv.de/inhalt/praevention/praev_lohnt_sich/jahrbuch/jahrbuch_engl.pdf
Cleaning is carried out in every workplace. In some industries, such as the food and catering sectors, poor cleaning can cause a business to fail. Cleaning is an essential task and, when done well, it can reduce both costs to the company and the risks to workers' safety and health by, for example, extending the life of workplace equipment and keeping floor surfaces in good condition. Sadly though, cleaning tasks have a bad image as it is a task associated with dirt and waste; workers are sometimes looked down on and their work taken for granted.
Source: http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/reports/TEWE09006ENC
Fact sheet 86 : Preventing harm to cleaning workers
While injury rates have been calculated and reduced in the waste and recycling industry in recent years (HSE Research Report 701), little is known about the prevalence of ill health for this industry. The main objective of this project was to review sickness absence data for the industry and provide estimates of the occupational ill health rate and the annual number of days absent from work.
Source: http://news.hse.gov.uk/2009/10/22/rr750-review-of-sickness-absence-data-in-the-waste-and-recycling-industry/
The purpose of this report was to provide an overview of the most important issues related to occupational safety and health for cleaning workers, to highlight the main trends and issues regarding the working conditions, hazard exposure and health outcomes, to identify gaps in knowledge and information available, and to formulate recommendations for future studies.
Source: http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/literature_reviews/cleaning_workers_and_OSH
The HSE need meaningful ‘leading indicators' that provide a real-time measure of progress in reducing long latency occupational disease. This report provides a review of potential leading indicators for long latency occupational disease.
Source: http://news.hse.gov.uk/2009/10/20/rr734-leading-indicators-for-assessing-reduction-in-risk-of-long-latency-diseases/?rss=Research
Le cadre de référence s'adresse à tous les acteurs en santé au travail qui s'intéressent au dépistage ou à la surveillance médicale, plus spécifiquement aux professionnels (médecins, infirmières, hygiénistes, audiologistes, agents de recherche, etc.) et aux gestionnaires du RSPSAT. Cet ouvrage se veut un guide pratique auquel pourront se référer ceux qui prescrivent ou qui souhaitent que des tests de dépistage soient prescrits aux travailleurs. Il leur permettra de fonder leurs décisions sur des critères explicites, basés sur des connaissances scientifiques et des principes éthiques. Il pourra, sans aucun doute, avoir un rayonnement plus large en s'étendant à leurs clients et à leurs partenaires (associations professionnelles, syndicats, CSST, etc.) ainsi qu'aux médecins du travail du secteur privé. Il pourra ainsi servir d'outil d'information permettant de communiquer les principes et la démarche qui sous-tendent la prise de décision concernant le dépistage ou la surveillance médicale.
Source: http://www.inspq.qc.ca/publications/notice.asp?E=p&NumPublication=990
Renewable energy and the green job [r]evolution
In 2009 the world is reeling from a collapse of the financial markets. The effects have been large job losses in the UK, USA and other developed nations, volatile stock markets, and millions of ordinary people struggling to pay their bills. Governments around the world responded with massive bail-out and fiscal stimulus packages. The United States alone poured $787 billion into its economy to prop up failing businesses and financial institutions.
Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/working-for-the-climate.pdf
Cette fiche sectorielle donne un aperçu des conditions de travail dans le secteur des postes et télécommunications.
Source: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef081412_fr.htm
Dr. P.K. Abeytunga, Vice President and Director General of the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, shares the importance of creating an integrated, comprehensive approach to health and wellness in the workplace.
Source: http://www.ccohs.ca/products/podcasts/
This report features cases from a variety of workplaces that demonstrate how a risk assessment process has led to a risk being identified and successfully eliminated or substantially reduced. The main aim of the report is to illustrate how risk elimination or risk reduction at source can be achieved at workplace level.
Source: http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/reports/TEWE09001ENC/view
A resource for welfare, health and growth
Working life research studies issues which are of the highest relevance for society. It is very important that the research maintains high quality. Swedish research into working life maintains a good or very good scientific standard, and this has been the case at least for a couple of decades as a consequence of the major initiatives made throughout the years. Such research has resulted in changes in working life which have led to health and high productivity. The labour market partners have pointed out that this transfer is not working as well as before.
Source: http://www.fas.forskning.se/upload/dokument/en/evaluations/Workinglife.pdf
The IWH 2008 annual report is now available online. Titled Impact, it highlights last year's research contributions to two important goals: preventing work injuries and illnesses, and helping injured workers recover and return to work.
Source: http://www.iwh.on.ca/annual-report
Sujets abordés lors de l'entrevue :
OSH policy & strategies
European Information Campaigns
Evolution of occupational safety and health
Statistics – registration – official data
Economics aspects of safety and health at work
Hot topics - permanent problems
Personal profile and points of view
Source: http://osha.europa.eu/en/press/photos/jukka_takala/Agency_videos
Delivering on the Nation's Investment in Worker Safety and Health
This document presents qualities that underpin our efforts and illustrates ways in which we continue to drive progress in occupational safety and health. We have included our efforts in such areas as nora, research-to-practice, emergency response, partnership, nanotechnology, global collaborations, and other cross-cutting programs. Throughout the document we have included specific examples of how niosh research has successfully impacted workplaces and the working population.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2009-144/
Cette fiche sectorielle donne un aperçu des conditions de travail dans le secteur du commerce de gros et de détail, et des réparations.
Source: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef081426_fr.htm
Cette fiche sectorielle donne un aperçu des conditions de travail dans le secteur des transports terrestres.
Source: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef08149_fr.htm
Cette fiche sectorielle donne un aperçu des conditions de travail dans le secteur de la fabrication de meubles et de la récupération.
Source: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef081422_fr.htm
Cette fiche sectorielle donne un aperçu des conditions de travail dans le secteur de l'éducation.
Source: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef08142_fr.htm
HSE Podcast
HSE's Taf Powell talks about HSE's contribution to ensuring secure, clean and affordable energy for Britain in the future.
Source: http://news.hse.gov.uk/2009/09/29/hse-podcast-emerging-energy-technologies/
Cette fiche sectorielle donne un aperçu des conditions de travail dans le secteur de la production de denrées alimentaires, de boissons et de tabac.
Source: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef08143_fr.htm
Cette fiche sectorielle donne un aperçu des conditions de travail dans le secteur de l'hôtellerie et de la restauration.
Source: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef08144_fr.htm
Le 22 août 2009, la prépublication d'un nouveau règlement en SST a été communiquée dans la Gazette du Canada. Il s'agit du règlement intitulé Règlement sur la santé et la sécurité au travail en milieu maritime. Ce règlement, qui s'applique exclusivement aux entreprises de compétence fédérale, vise à remplacer l'actuel règlement intitulé Règlement sur la santé et la sécurité au travail (Navires).
Source: http://www.centrepatronalsst.qc.ca/actualites/nouveau-projet-de-reglement-sst-au-federal-.html
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