“Transferring the fire of our event into practice” was the motto of the 10th Training & Innovation event, which took place from 20 – 21 May 2010 at the DGUV Akademie in Dresden and was attended by a total of 65 participants from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Denmark and Canada. Representatives of accident insurance providers came together with participants from companies, universities, ministries and other public institutions as well as private providers of training, research and consultancy to have a frank and high-level exchange of ideas on how to make sure that seminars and training sessions have a more sustainable impact in practice.
For more information, please go to "Training & Innovation" in our main menu on the left.

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work released a new report: "Mainstreaming OSH in university education: challenges and opportunities".
When it comes to integrating OSH into university education, there are a number of particular challenges.
There is often a lack of teaching staff who have expertise in OSH, and a lack of OSH teaching materials suitable for university level. There can be a lack of funds for developing OSH education at universities, compared with schools. And university courses can favour theoretical learning methods over practical, active ones.
This report looks at the challenges of ‘mainstreaming’ or integrating OSH into university courses, as well as providing examples of imaginative ways in which these challenges can be overcome. And it shows that there are examples from around Europe of OSH successfully being made a part of university education.
On the website, the full report can be downloaded (in English).
A fact sheet is available in 22 different languages.

| Bild: | The second interesting report by the British Safety Council, "Ensuring the safety and health of young workers", focuses on the health and safety of young workers and is the second in a series of publications by the British Safety Council in 2010. The reports are designed to share best practice and to increase the understanding of the social, economic and personal consequences of workplace injury and ill health, and the sensible and effective actions that would help prevent such harm. The report shows projects by the BSC and examples from the work life of young workers. Four big companies from different branches were chosen to show their way of dealing with and caring for the safety and health of young workers.
Please visit the website of the BSC and click here to download the report (PDF file) directly.

We are very glad to welcome this new partner to our network. The European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) is an Industry Federation within the European Trade Union Confederation and an autonomous organisation within the Education International Pan-European Structure. More than 100 Unions, institutions and organizations from 31 different European countries are members of this committee. ETUCE organizes and runs several projects on European level, for example on work-related stress, violence at work, violence and harassment (and cyber-harassment) at schools, gender equality in the education sector and a "European eLearning Forum for Education" (ELFE).
In June 2010 the ETUCE and the European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE) held their first plenary of the European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee in Education which has got Health and Safety issues as a priority topic on the joint agenda.
More information on the ETUCE website.

The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has started a new initiative. They are inviting experts in occupational safety and health worldwide to join a new listserv that focuses on preventing and reducing hazardous work for children and youth, age 14 and above.
The role of the listserv is to begin creating an international Community of Practice and Learning (CoPL) around hazardous work and young people. It will connect researchers, educators, policymakers, practitioners, and funders so they can share ideas, ask questions, disseminate practical tools, adapt educational materials, and find opportunities to work together.
After a two month trial phase, ILO IPEC will survey subscribers' views on future directions for the CoPL.
For more information, please send an email to: list-osh-youth@ilo.org or go to the ILO website.

AIDII, the Italian Association of Industrial Hygiene is developing the project Occupational Health & Safety NETworking in EASTern Europe - OSH-EASTNET financed by European Commission under IPA 2008 Programme – Civil Society Facility: Support to Partnership Actions "Environment, Energy Efficiency, and Health and Safety at Work".
The overall objective of the OSH-EASTNET action is to share knowledge and good practice between the Italian Association of Industrial Hygienists (AIDII) and National Association of Public Health of Albania, Macedonian Confederation of Employers of Republic of Macedonia - Medical Companies Association, Association for Safety and Health at Work – Serbia, Association of Public Health Research of Turkey with the view of improving OHS practices in the area and to enhance its harmonization with EU standards.
In the first 6 months, four meetings have already been organised (Brussels, Rome, Istanbul, Tirana) with great success.
The next meeting will be held in Rome on 30th September 2010 during the IOHA 2010 Conference.
For more information: www.oshnet.eu, alice.gargiullo@aidii.it

ETUCE (The European Trade Union Committee for Education) started a second project on violence at school: "Teachers concerned about violence at school - cyber-harassment".
Cyber-harassment has more and more developed into a highly discussed topic at schools because it affects teachers at their workplace and their working conditions in a most dangerous way.
In the scope of this project by ETUCE, two surveys have been carried out. A seminar in Brussels, a conference in Bratislava and a special area on the ETUCE teacher's occupational safety and health website complete these activities.

The 2010 International Conference on Accident Prevention (ICAP 2010) - Accident Prevention through the Implementation of the Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work - will be held in Busan, Korea from 20 Oct. to 22 Oct., 2010.
The conference, organized by Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) and Korean Society of Safety (KOSOS), is the first international conference sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Accident Prevention (SCAP) of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH).
The aim of the conference is to provide up-to-date discussions in the
field of safety science and technology.

We are glad to welcome a new partner from Italy.
The "Associazione Italiana Formatori della Sicurezza sul Lavoro" (Italian Association of Trainers in Occupational Safety) is a non-profit organization made up of trainers, teachers, professionals, consultants, companies and those involved in the training of occupational safety.

More information in our member's area (Main menu: "Membership")

| Bild: | We are glad to announce that we have two new partners in our network:
The Polytechnic School of the University of Girona (Spain) and the Health & Safety Unit from Malta.
The Escola Politecnica Superior (Polytechnic School) of the University of Girona is the center where students are studying the technological sphere of the University of Girona. The aim of the Polytechnic School is to train professionals in the field of Technology.
| Bild: | The Heath & Safety Unit by the Directorate for Educational Services of the Maltese Ministry of Education, Employment and the Family. The unit is working to promote awareness among all students on health and safety issues.

For more information, please click the map of Europe on the upper right side of this page and then choose a country.

The BAR Bygge & Anlæg (Sectoral Working Environment Council on Building and Construction) in Denmark launched a new website dealing with construction safety. The website is available in four languages: Danish, English, Polish and German. It contains 15 different areas, each of them covering one profession at the construction site: bricklayer, scaffold builder, glazier, floor fitter, construction builder, mason paviour, building builder, electrician, painter, demolition worker, roofer, carpenter, plumber, asphalt worker and safety representative.
For every profession, a humorous video clip starring "Bent E" puts a focus on the special safety requirements. In addition, a collection of facts is available, as well as "Tasks", a kind of quiz to show what the user has learned so far.
www.safe-construction.dk

Our "Hot Topics" are collections of good practice examples dealing with one special topic. This time it is "Mental Health".
You can access this collection by clicking "Hot Topics" in the main menu on the left. There you will find a short teaser for each of the examples and a link leading to the project's web pages.

Rethinking transfer: the sustainability of training in occupational health and safety
How to transfer the fire of our events into practice? How to understand transfer as a process? Those and other exciting issues will be discussed together with participants from different countries at the DGUV Congress Centre, Dresden.

On 24 February 2010 the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) hold a stakeholder meeting on mainstreaming occupational safety and health (OSH) into education at MULTIBURO in Brussels. The meeting was attended by over fifty participants from 16 different countries including member state representatives, European Commission representatives from DG Employment and DG Education, social partners from the European Commission’s advisory group on safety and health (working group on education and training), and European social partners in the education sector (who are representatives on the newly formed sector social dialogue committee for the education sector), the European Training Foundation and ENSHPO. The meeting was co-organized by ENETOSH.

As part of a project on young people’s health and safety at work being carried out by Prevent, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, at the request of Assuralia (Belgian Association of the Insurance companies), the institute has conducted two surveys: one among students and the other among companies.

The European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) and the European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE) held a joint conference on 29th of September 2009 in Brussels. This event came as the latest step in a process initiated by the ETUCE five years ago. During the conference, the two organisations signed up a joint application letter to create a European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Education, in conformity with Articles 138-139 of the EC Treaty.
The European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), which was established in 1975, represents 118 teachers' unions in 28 European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries. ETUCE is composed of national organisations of teachers and other staff in education being member organisations of Education International (EI) or the World Confederation of Teachers (WCT). It has associated member organisations in the Central and Eastern European countries. The total coverage in Europe amounts to 166 organisations.
The EFEE was established in 2009, and has members in 18 countries. The overall objective of EFEE is to represent the interests of education providers of all levels (from pre-school to university and vocational education) as employers at European level, and thereby contribute to the improvement of education in the member states of the EU.

Psychosocial risks have been identified at the European and national level as a concern for both employers and workers. Research conducted at the European level through the PRIMA-EF project clearly identifies the need for training and skills development for the prevention and management of psychosocial risks at work. The PRIMAeT project, funded by the EC Leonardo da Vinci programme, aims at the development of a training programme on psychosocial risk management with a special focus on prevention at the workplace level. Key issues to be addressed through this training programme will include work-related stress, violence, harassment and bullying.
As a key stakeholder, PRIMAet invites experts to participate in this survey to help identify the available training for psychosocial risk management provided by different stakeholders across the EU.
You can download the survey here (DOC file, 844 KB). Depending on your system and browser, you might just have to click this link to download the file, otherwise click it with your right mouse button and choose "save target as...".
Please return this survey by email to Aditya.Jain@nottingham.ac.uk by the 30th of April 2010.
More information is available on the PRIMAeT website.

The German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) started this campaign in January 2010.
Every year, 230.000 accidents occur during transport and traffic within plants, 150 of them are fatal. In addition, 23.000 accidents occur on public roads during business journeys (170 of them fatal) and 175.000 accidents occur involving schoolchildren on public roads. In 2008, more than 500 insurants lost their lives due to one of these casualties.
The campaign "Fight the risk" aims at prevention and reduction of these accidents. A website is online now, offering information for employers, employees, pupils and teachers, links, videoclips and personalized E- Cards including a short prevention clip that can be sent to friends. A multimedia quiz will follow.
Click here for the website (DE), here for an information leaflet (EN). The links will open in a new browser window.

Delegates from across Europe attended the first international seminar looking into young people’s involvement in injury prevention.
The three-day event, which was hosted by CSEC and AdRisk (the Community Action on Adolescents and Injury Risk project, a European initiative) and held at the headquarters of RoSPA in Birmingham, proved a major success.
There were inspiring examples of work from around the continent, including presentations from young people who are involved in injury prevention in the UK, and lively workshop sessions during which delegates sought to define “high quality practical safety education” and “risk competence”.
Click here for the seminar results website with more information and interesting links to projects and documentaries of the young participants.

The latest ENETOSH leaflet is now available for download in 24 European languages! These are 22 official languages plus Turkish and Macedonian. Please take a look at the column on the right side of this page. By clicking the appropriate country flag, you can download the leaflet in one of the following languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

On 26 January the kick off meeting of the Sifa Network Thuringia took place in Poessneck, Germany. The network aims at fostering the exchange of experience between all actors in the field of OSH-management and supporting continuous vocational training of safety experts. The network has an open loop, everyone who is interested in the work of safety experts is invited to join the network.
The network is under the auspices of ENETOSH. Ulrike Bollmann, coordinator of ENETOSH, underlined the importance of an international exchange of experience and the continuous professionalisation of safety experts. The Institute for Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance offers a broad range of seminars to develop the competencies of safety experts. The safety experts come from different branches and the attendants from all over Germany.
Jörg Stojke, director of the BGW Academy in Dresden, pointed out that networking between safety experts is of an increasing importance.

This review was conducted to find out whether OHS training has a beneficial effect on workers and firms, and whether higher engagement OHS training is more beneficial than lower engagement OHS training. The systematic review team consisted of 16 researchers from the United States and Canada. The review team searched 10 electronic databases for studies of randomized controlled trials published on OHS education or training between 1996-2007. An initial 6,469 articles were identified and reviewed for relevance.

Our eighth Hot Topic is "Violence prevention". You can access this selection of good practice examples with short descriptions and further leading links to projects dealing with this topic by clicking "Hot Topics" in our main menu on the left.

The Ethno-Medical Centre (Ethno-Medizinisches Zentrum) Hannover will host the congress "Demographic change – integration and health for all generations" to celebrate the International Migrant's Day with support of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Sports and Integration and the Federation of Health Insurances, BKK. The congress will take place at the Congress Centre Hannover on 18th December, 2009.
Demographic change and migration are often discussed as problems, as well as their impact on work and health. But if we take a look at the possibilities, the enormous chances for a positive social development become apparent.
Internationally accepted speakers, working in the field of migration, health and demographic change are looking for an intensive exchange of information and experience at national and European level by holding speeches, within workshops and a plenary discussion. A cultural program will complete this International Migrant's Day.
Participation is free of charge, but an application is necessary. Click here for the website and online application form (in German).

We are glad to welcome three new partners to our network:

| Bild: | BAR Bygge & Anlæg from Denmark. The Sectoral Working Environment Council on Building and Construction is composed of employers, managers and employee organizations within the construction area. It is one of a total of 11 Branchearbejdsmiljøråd.

| Bild: | BRITISH SAFETY COUNCIL. Founded in 1957, the British Safety Council is one of the world's leading health and safety organisations. The council's mission is to keep people healthy and safe at work and to support a healthier, safer and more sustainable society.

| Bild: | University Of Hamburg, Faculty Educational Science, Psychology And Kinesiology, Department Kinesiology And Training Theory
This Faculty is specialized in research and education in the fields of Kinesiology and sports science, biomechanics, sports mechanics, research methods in Kinesiology and training theory, health promotion and tests in motor skills.

> Please choose "Membership/ Member" in the main menu on the left (or click the map on the top right) and then a country to access our member's area and find more information, links and contact data.<

65 participants from 11 different countries attended the workshop “OSH and education - approaches to a successful cooperation”, which took place on the 5th November 2009 during the A+A conference in Düsseldorf. The workshop was organised by the European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safety and Health, ENETOSH, in co-operation with the statutory accident insurance for the public sector of North-Rhine Westphalia and the expert group on education of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV).

The ENETOSH newsletter No 7 is available and ready for download in English and German. Please click the link "Newsletter Download" on the right side of this page.

This handbook of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training CEDEFOP has been produced to support practitioners and decision-makers, such as teachers, trainers and administrators, in their efforts to support the professional development and well-being of VET professionals and organisations.
Existing descriptions of the competences of teaching professionals mainly encompass those working in general education. This handbook is an attempt to capture the fast-evolving and complex activities and competences required of those working within vocational education and training.
The Handbook can be dowloaded from the CEDEFOP website.

The Institute Work and Health (BGAG) of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) has released a new report: "Measures for prevention of school violence: Stock taking of programmes in the German-speaking area".
The abstract of this brochure says: "Every time traumatic events such as running amok come out a topic in public is school violence. After the first horror-struck reaction and speechlessness constantly the question of how to prevent school violence is raised in press and politics. At the same time it often is not taken into account that there already is a whole series of prevention programmes. In part these programmes even have been evaluated as effectively". The brochure was developed in order to facilitate the overview on a great number of programmes for the persons responsible, the schools and interested parties. It systematically lists a large part of German-speaking programmes. The brochure can be downloaded in PDF format from the IAG website.

On 1st October 2009, the European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safety and Health (ENETOSH) received the LEONARDO Award 2009: Innovation in Practice.
Before an audience of 500 in the crowded civic centre in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Weiß, permanent representative of the President of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung - BIBB) presented the award to Dr. Ulrike Bollmann and Dr. Dirk Windemuth of the Institute Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV), who, in their role as co-ordinators, accepted it on behalf of all the partners in the ENETOSH network.

Our seventh "Hot Topic" is online and can be visited by clicking "Hot Topics" on the left inside the main menu. Our "Hot Topics" are supposed to put a focus on a special topic - this time it is "First Aid".

ADAM is a new web portal by Leonardo da Vinci, which is part of the European education and training programme "Life-long Learning". All projects, products and results produced by the Leonardo da Vinci Programme are presented on this web platform with descriptions, further information and web links. The ADAM portal is a comprehensive database with a list of all projects and an "extended search" function that makes it easy to browse and find all projects and products. All information is available English, German and French.
Please click here for the ADAM website or ENETOSH on ADAM

The international Congress on Occupational Health and Safety (A+A), the largest national and international meeting for specialists in the field of safety, health and workplace design will take place at Düsseldorf, Germany, from 3rd til 6th November, 2009.
Within the scope of the A+A, the workshop "OSH and education - approaches to a successful cooperation" will take place on Thursday, 5th November 2009, 9:15 - 12:15 o'clock, at the international Congress A+A in Düsseldorf, Germany. The event will be carried out by ENETOSH in co-operation with the Statutory accident insurance for the public sector of the "Bundesland" North-Rhine Westfalia and the Expert group on Education of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV).
Click here for the programme in English or German.
More information on A+A: www.aplusa-online.de

This new area (see new menu item on the left) is supposed to put a special focus on examples of good practice that are using modern communication technologies such as e- learning, web platforms, podcasting or social networks (e.g. Facebook). This new menu item will lead you to a selection of projects and the links to their online activities. This selection will be growing and cannot be complete, of course.
| Bild: | Two new projects are in this list, too:
The "Young people at work" - website by Health and Safety Executive HSE has been relaunched and rebranded, with a new design and a better navigation. This website offers a health and safety podcast especially for young people.
| Bild: | The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents RoSPA launched the new website "Teen Safety and Risk" including a special Facebook group.

The European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safety and Health ENETOSH received the LEONARDO- Award 2009: Innovation in practice. The National Agency Education for Europe at the BIBB Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training has awarded three outstanding projects each from GRUNDTVIG and LEONARDO DA VINCI for the first time. The prize is supposed to award outstanding projects of high practical relevance.
Susanne Burger from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, chair of the jury, declared: The jury was especially positive about the project results that have been developed by the coordinator Institute Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance in cooperation with all partners of the project. The jury appreciated explicitly the impact in practice achieved by the commitment and expertise of the partners.
The award ceremony will take place in the scope of the annual conference of the National Agency at Bonn Bad Godesberg on 1. - 2. October. Please click here for the programme of the conference.

The Robert W. Campbell Award is organized by the US National Safety Council (NSC) and supported by a network of 22 global partners across five continents. We are proud to announce that ENETOSH has become a member recently.
The international Award recognizes organizations that have successfully integrated health, safety and environmental management into their overall business operations. These cases, demonstrating health and safety and economic productivity have been converted to be used as resources for engineering and business schools, and to promote partnerships with business schools and cooperation with professors.
ENETOSH will support the Award’s work by promoting it and nominating candidates to serve on the international panel of reviewers.
More information: www.campbellaward.org

We are glad to welcome three new partners to our network:
The Confederation of Professionals in Denmark FTF, the trade union confederation for 450,000 public and private employees, making it the second biggest of Denmark's three main unions and a major actor in the Danish labour market, with its close on three million wage earners.
| Bild: | Erik Findalen, Director of the Technical School Hansenberg, Kolding Denmark. HANSENBERG is a modern educational institution with 150 years of experience in vocational training. The school offers a wide range of education and training programmes.
| Bild: | Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi" from Iasi, Romania. The University has 11 of faculties for different fields of engineering.
New ENETOSH Partner is the Occupational Safety and Health Department of the Technical University.

This report describes a joint project conducted by HSL and the University of Liverpool Engineering Department to integrate risk concepts into their undergraduate engineering course. The project defined risk education learning outcomes that can be integrated into an undergraduate engineering curriculum and implementing them by merging new teaching materials (involving real accident case studies) into core engineering modules. The report and the work it describes were funded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The report was compiled by Nicola Stacey and Chris Simpson from HSL and Dr. Graham Schleyer from the University of Liverpool and is available for download on the HSE website.

Eight organisations and companies were honoured with an award at the ninth annual European Good Practice competition organised within the Healthy Workplaces campaign on risk assessment. The winners and commended entries all promoted good safety and health practices in workplace risk assessment, illustrated in the Good Practice Booklet.
Hundreds of entries from all over Europe were received, covering organisations of all sizes and sectors and subject to a wide variety of risk factors. The Good Practice Booklet gives details of the eight winning and nine commended entries.
In selecting the examples, the judging panel was looking for solutions that show innovative and sustainable ways to tackled risks at source, solutions that go beyond simple compliance with legislation and that actively involve the workforce and demonstrate that risk assessment is linked to a broader occupational safety and health policy.
The award winners included a partnership approach from Romania to create a safe and healthy school. The case can be read in the report.
Please click here for: The announcment | The booklet | TV footage of the winners | Photos of the award ceremony (all links leading to the website of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and opening a new browser window)

The European Commission is about to launch a new campaign to encourage young people to become more proactive in protecting their health.
Health is rarely a top priority for young people. And yet some health problems - related to obesity, alcohol, tobacco and drugs - often start at an early age. So it is important to address young people in an appropriate way. This new initiative offers a website in 22 languages to raise awareness for safety and health - with a competiton and a youth health blog to share experiences and opinions on health matters such as school sports, sex and nutritional education and local health issues. The EU is trying to address these different issues and encourage young people to become active partners in promoting their health.
More information on the website of the European Commission and the website of the Youth Health Initiative.

The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) will hold this international conference from 10–12 February 2010 at the Crowne Plaza at Helsinki, Finland. The aim of the Conference is to provide an opportunity to discuss strategies and tools for the promotion of health and well-being at the workplace as well as their links to productivity. All kinds of OSH experts are invited to attend this conference. This event will give opportunities to learn how different actors in the occupational health and safety field in different countries and regions are currently promoting health and safety at workplaces. It will as well show the latest developments and be a forum for presenting findings and demonstrating methods, tools and approaches on this topic.
Organizing Committee: Professor Harri Vainio (Chair) and Dr. Hannu Anttonen (Co-Chair), both FIOH.
For more information, please visit www.ttl.fi/betterwork

The 4th international seminar "From School to Work" will take place in Lisbon from 1st to 3rd June, 2009. Organized in collaboration with the Portugal’s Authority for Working Conditions (Autoridade para as Condições de Trabalho – ACT ), this event is intended for the professionals, key players and decision makers involved in the area of occupational health and safety, as well as educational and vocational training community. This event is also for companies that implement welcome and support policies helping young people to preserve their health and ensure their safety at work.
The call for papers is now online, the deadline for proposals is March 27, 2009.

We are happy to welcome a new year 2009, which will hopefully be healthy and successful for all our members, partners and colleagues, as well as two new members of our network: the Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention for Engineering and the Metal industry, Germany, and the Institute for Safety and Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Material Science and Technology in Trnava, which is part of the Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Check our member's area for more information, please.

This is our sixth "Hot Topic" to highlight special issues by presenting a selection of good practice examples. All Hot Topics can be accessed by clicking the menu item on the left side of this page. This one is dealing with "risk assessment"
To prevent accidents and to make worklife more secure, risk assessment and the ability to perceive risks in advance, is of immense importance. There are so many different risks that can be "hidden" in everyday work in the different professions or fields of work, therefore training and education can help workers to see risks of their workfield in advance.

The European Network of Safety and Health Professional Organisations (ENSHPO) launched its new European Certification Standard. EurOSHM (European Occupational Safety and Health Manager) is a voluntary European certification standard for occupational safety and health. It helps to verify the competence of OSH professionals and is particularly relevant for people with professional remits across several European countries.

In Finland, the National Occupational Safety Card has rapidly become a popular way to complete the basic training in safety and health at shared workplaces. The card was established in 1997. In 2007 the Centre for Occupational Safety started coordinating the Occupational Safety Card related activies. The card has been developed by Finnish industrial enterprises together with social partners, insurance institutions and educational organisations.

Every half an hour a young person dies of a fatal injury in Europe. This adds up to 20,000 young people losing their lives each year. Twice as many young people die of fatal injuries than all other causes of death combined such as cancer and diseases of the circulatory, respiratory and nervous systems. Yet according to the European AdRisk project, much can be done to prevent injuries among 15-24 year olds by understanding and addressing their risk-taking behaviour.
The EC financed AdRisk project, ‘Community Action on Adolescents and Risk- Taking’, now launched a package of materials and information targeted at policy- makers, stakeholders and professionals at both the European and national levels to help save the lives of Europe’s young people.

Our Newsletter No. 6 is now available. Please click the portlet on the right side to either download it (in English, German, French, Danish, Polish, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Czech, Finish or Lithuanian) or subscribe to our mailing- list.

The European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) is the European Industry Federation for the construction industry, the building materials industry, the wood and furniture industry and the forestry industry. The EFBWW has 68 affiliated unions in 27 countries and represents a total of 2,350,000 members. The EFBWW is a member organisation of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and has its headquarter in Brussels, the capital of Europe.

The institute is part of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. It provides the following services: Ambulant diagnosis for clarification of suspected occupational or environmental diseases, environmental monitoring, counselling of colleagues related to questions in the fields of occupational, environmental or social medicine, preventional examinations according to various German regulations, pre-employment examinations etc.
In cooperation with the Initiative for New Quality at Work (INQA), the project "Full Breath" (Volle Puste) has been initiated. The project is supposed to raise awareness of the role of respiratory and skin diseases when choosing a profession.

We are proud to announce that the Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency (KOSHA) has joined the ENETOSH network as an associated member.
The Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency (KOSHA) is a public and non-profit industrial accident prevention organization established on December 9, 1987 as a government-funded institute in accordance with the Korea Industrial Safety and Health Agency Act (Law No. 3931). KOSHA seeks to contribute to the growth and development of the national economy by maintaining and improving the safety and health conditions of workplaces and runs, among others, practical training programs for safety and health management, a correspondence training program for supervisors at workplaces, general training programs for supervisors at workplaces and an Occupational Safety Training Institute.
You will find more information on the KOSHA Member's page on this platform and on the KOSHA website.

Paedimed, coordinated by the University of Heidelberg, is a health promotion project based on a resource oriented salutogenic health concept. By specific measures, individuals shall be enabled to increase their control over their own health status and to improve their health actively. This concept focuses on the resources of individuals and not on risk factors. The aim of paedimed is to develop, implement and evaluate a web-based learning environment for schools. This will focus on the subjects of skin, skin diseases and sexuality, sexually transmittable diseases. Participating countries in the paedimed project are Germany, Italy and Romania.

Reducing the number of work accidents of young workers and job-starters is the aim of a new, common project of four sections of the International Social Security Association (ISSA). The project is looking for new pathways to integrate Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) into initial vocational education systematically. The focus will be on vocational schools, external plant centres and small and medium sized enterprises (SME).

This conference with 64 participants from 17 countries, organized by the Institute Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance, took place from the 3rd till the 5th of July 2008 at the BGAG, Dresden. This year´s topic was "Intercultural Dialogue in Work and Health". The event was carried out in co-operation with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and the Ethno-medical centre Hanover. Here you can find our report, some pictures from the event and the presentations of the participants.

The World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, which is being organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) is the world's largest international event in occupational safety and health.

The 8th International Congress on Occupational Safety and Health at Work will take place on 3rd and 4th of July 2008 in Oporto Congress Center - Edifício da Alfândega, Porto. This year the Congress has a leading subject, the risk assessment and the subject “Healthy and safer workplaces, good for you, good for enterprises”.

“Move Europe” is an initiative of the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP) – a campaign for the "improvement of lifestyle-related workplace health". In the scope of this project, the ENWHP network aims to persuade European companies and other organisations to invest in programmes to help improve life-style oriented behaviour in Europe. The main focus of the campaign is on four specific topics: smoking prevention, nutrition, physical exercise and mental health. The campaign is planned to run for 3 years and will end in 2009.
Promoting workplace health, and especially the topics covered by the "Move Europe" campaign directly in companies all over Europe, can help bringing these topics to education and training inside these companies as well. There are trainers and teachers related to or working in these companies who can use the campaign to strengthen the role of workplace health. The improvement of life-style oriented behaviours at the workplace has, of course, always been a topic for training and education in occupational health and safety as well.
More information about the initiative here.

New members within the ENETOSH network! Professor Alredo Soeiro from the University of Porto started to establish a Portugese network of individual members of the ENETOSH network.
In Portugal, there is a large community of teachers and trainers involved in Occupational Safety and Health. Prof. Soeiro is a teacher of Civil Engineering at the University of Porto and has been researching safety in Construction. One of the members of the Protugese network, Dr. Roxo, was Vice-General Inspector of Labour in Portugal and is currently dealing with subjects related with the European matters of OSH. Dr. Freitas, another member, is responsible for OSH in the Portguese telecommunication company and president of APSET - Portugese Association of OSH. The three persons which currently form the Portugese network are a small sample that illustrates the spectrum of OSH activities in this country.

The Institute Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance will be organizing the 8th Training & Innovation from the 3rd till the 5th of July 2008. This year´s topic is Intercultural Dialogue in Work and Health. Again the event will be carried out in co-operation with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. Conference languages will be English and German. Speeches, workshops and conclusions that will be carried out in the conference hall, will be translated simultaneously.
The English version of the programme can be viewed and downloaded here. Please click here for the German version.
The registration form in English is available here, the German version here. All documents come in PDF file format and will be opened in a new browser window.
For more information on the 8th Training & Innovation, please click here.

This publication seeks to review in depth what risks young workers are exposed to at work and what the consequences of these exposures are, in both the short term and the long term for young workers. The full publication can be dowloaded as PDF file on the web site of the Agency or be ordered as a printed copy.

Today is the 13th International Noise Awareness Day. This day is supposed to put a worldwide focus on a very important topic in Occupational Safety and Health. Not only in daily life - loud music or traffic noise -, but especially at work, noise and the awareness of noise-related dangers are of high importance. This is where education and training can help reducing health risks caused by noise at work. This subject has always been one of the main focuses of ENETOSH.

Our fifth "Hot Topic" is "Healthy Children". Children are our future - and their health and their awareness of healthy behaviour and of health-related dangers are very important! A couple of projects, campaigns and courses all over Europe deal with this topic, so please have a look at our selection of good practice examples!

The Institute Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance will be organizing the 8th Training & Innovation from the 3rd till the 5th of July 2008.
This year´s topic is "Intercultural Dialogue in Work and Health". Again, the event will be carried out in cooperation with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. It is also a contribution to the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

The "epitome"- project (eLearning Promoting the Integration of Migrant Workers) is a two year Leonardo da Vinci pilot project in operation from October 2006 to September 2008 involving six Member States – The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Latvia, Poland and the UK. This project addresses issues around the training of lower skilled actual and potential migrant workers in the hospitality and food and drink manufacturing sectors to ensure all employees are fully integrated into the workplace especially in terms of work and cultural practices. The project now enters the pilot phase, which means the project outcome (e-learning content) is ready to be tested. The national partners therefore are looking for enterprises to join this process.
Companies which are interested in joining the project are requested to contact Dr. Noemí Fernández Sánchez, RKW Kompetenzzentrum, Germany, email: sanchez@rkw.de.

In our second interview with OSH experts, we had the possibility to ask some questions to Kristiina Volmari, who is development manager at HAMK University of Applied Sciences, Vocational Teacher Education Unit in Finland. Mrs. Volmari presented Cedefop and the project Defining VET professions in the scope of the 7th Training & Innovation in July 2007 at Dresden. She told us her opinion about a common framework for teachers and trainers.

From 28th to 29th February, 2008, an international conference will take place at the Czech Union of Scientific and Technical Society, Prague. This conference is aimed at OSH specialists and managers of all levels, employees' representatives for OSH problems and any other interested parties who are aware that OSH education and training is one of very important components of the OSH prevention in companies and state administration. The participating experts will discuss aspects of OSH Education and Training in the changing world of work.

The partners of the ENETOSH project, funded by the EU-programme LEONARDO DA VINCI, developed jointly the ENETOSH standard of competence for instructors and trainers in safety and health. The development was carried out on the basis of the European Qualification Framework (EQF).