ENETOSH will organize the symposium "S15 - People-centred prevention strategies on OSH" at the XXI World Congress 2017 in Singapore. The workshop will be co-organized by the Occupational Safety and Health Council (WSHC), Hong Kong/China, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MoLSS), Turkey.
In October 2016, an ENETOSH think tank was held at Occupational Safety Research Institute (VÚBP), Prague, Czech Republic, to start to prepare the symposium. Representatives from 13 member institutions worked on key messages, basics and ideas and discussed form and content of the workshop. A planning committee was set up to further prepare the symposium.
Reminder: Abstracts of contributions for one of the 30 symposia at the World Congress 2017 can still be submitted. Deadline for submissions is 5 December, 2016.
www.safety2017singapore.com

BALcanOSH.net is a wide network of professional civil society organizations, supported by the social partners in promoting the idea that creating a preventive culture can lead to safer and healthier jobs. During the BALcanOSH initial meeting in Pristina in September 2016, the new network was initiated.
MOSHA (Macedonian Occupational Safety And Health Association), a member of the ENETOSH network, is the leading institution, in partnership with the Serbian, Kosovar, Albanian and Montenegrin OSH associations, in associate partnership with the IOSH, Croatian OSH institute, Slovenian association of safety engineers and Bulgarian OSH foundation.
Several initial meetings in the partner countries and conferences have been and will be held, like the First International Balkan Regional Conference "OSH BON-TON" in October 2015 in Ohrid, Macedonia and the 2nd international conference "Occupational Cancer and more" in November 2016 in Bled, Slovenia.
In the scope of the International OSH Conference in Obzor, Macedonia, in May 2015, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between BALcanOSH and ENETOSH.
For more information, visit the BALcanOSH website or follow the hashtag #balcanosh on Twitter.

ENETOSH will support the Healthy Workplaces for all Ages Campaign 2016 - 2017 of EU OSHA to raise the awareness around the importance of safe and healthy work at any age.
In April 2016, EU-OSHA, together with the European Commission and the Netherlands’ EU Council Presidency, launched its 2016-17 campaign, Healthy Workplaces for All Ages. This new campaign focuses on sustainable work and healthy ageing from the beginning of working life and highlights the importance of risk prevention throughout a person’s career. Based on the European Parliament project ‘Safer and healthier work at any age’ conducted by EU-OSHA, the campaign highlights the benefits of good occupational safety and health for workers, companies and society as a whole.
ENETOSH will especially promote the life-course approach of the campaign. By doing this, the network will stress the importance of learning and re-learning within an ageing society. In addition the network will raise the question about the different prerequisites for a good learning and working environment at different ages.
Click here for the official campaign website website.

The European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safety and Health (ENETOSH) is supporting the Autoridade para as Condições do Trabalho (ACT) in the framework of the MIND SAFETY – SAFETY MATTERS! ERASMUS+ project. This project aims to establish an interface between teacher education, professional training and learning contexts in occupational safety and health. It will help to improve and innovate methods of teaching safety and health issues in the classroom, to motivate and prepare young people to work in safe conditions, and to be responsible citizens after leaving school.
The project will also promote teachers’ active involvement and active participation in their own training, to test, experiment, develop and implement methodologies and tools in school, enhancing the quality and relevance of the learning process, innovating practices for improving teaching competences and abilities in order to deliver occupational safety and health issues.
Practical outcomes of the project, which is a cooperation of Autoridade para as Condições do Trabalho (PT), Universidade de Aveiro (PT), AFTEBI - Associação para a Formação Tecnológica e Profissional da Beira Interior (PT), The National Research and Development Institute of Occupational Safety (INCDPM)(ROM), Výzkumný ústav bezpecnosti práce Praha (CZ), Technische Universiteit Delft (NL) and Universitat de Girona (ESP), will be an OSH Teacher Education Reference Guide, a Practical Guide for teachers (OSH! What a bright idea!) and a booklet for students.