European Week for Safety and Health at Work puts spotlight on safe maintenance
27 October 2011
Safe maintenance will be the focus of the European Week for Safety and Health at Work, which this year was marked from 24 to 28 October with a series of awareness-raising events, including workshops, seminars and exhibitions.
The week is part of the Healthy Workplaces campaign, organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) and its partners across the EU and beyond.
“The safe maintenance campaign is drawing record levels of involvement with our Europe-wide network of focal points and more than 50 companies and organisations that joined as Official Campaign Partners,” explains Dr. Christa Sedlatschek (pictured), Director of EU-OSHA. “Since April 2010, the campaign has mobilised some 10,000 people though more than a hundred partnership meetings and a series of media activities, to bring safe maintenance to the fore. Benefits for organisations of being a campaign partner include greater employee engagement (43%) and better networking activities (64%),” she added.
The European Week will consolidate these activities, with many of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign events focused around this week.
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) contributes to making Europe a safer, healthier and more productive place to work. The Agency researches, develops, and distributes information and organises pan-European awareness raising campaigns. Set-up by the European Union in 1996 and based in Bilbao, Spain, the Agency brings together representatives from the European Commission, Member State governments, employers’ and workers’ organisations, as well as experts in each of the EU-27 Member States and beyond.
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