The European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) was partner in a Lifelong Learning Project “Making the EU AsBestos Clean (ABClean) to create an e-learning course offer together with training providers and institutes for occupational medicine. In many Member States, asbestos related training requirements are often limited to workers in companies specialized in asbestos removal. This leaves out many workers who are at risk of exposure to asbestos, who receive no training on asbestos awareness at all.
For this reason, ABClean distinguishes between two types of workers when it comes to asbestos. The first group consists of workers in companies that are specialized in asbestos removal, who receive the appropriate training to perform this task and the second group consists of workers in other professions who are not specialized in asbestos removal, but who may encounter asbestos containing products in the course of e.g. maintenance, demolition or renovation. While some Member States have legislation in place to train this second group of workers on asbestos awareness, other Member States do not. In order to help address this discrepancy, the e-learning course is being offered together with training providers and institutes for occupational medicine.
The ABClean e-learning course is available in Polish, Lithuanian, Spanish and English. For more information see project website and project newsletter. For information on how to sign up for the course please contact Stephen Schindler (sschindler@efbh.be).

We are glad to welcome a new member to our network: The Health and Safety Department of the University of Brighton (UK). The department provides all staff and students with advice and guidance on safety so as to support living, working and learning in a safe and sustainable environment. It supports the delivery of the university’s Health and Safety Policy and associated Strategic Plan and is dedicated to providing an outstanding partnership based service which ensures the continuous improvement of the Health and Safety Management System.
The department is responsible for the delivery of a range of services including; advice, training, auditing, accident investigation, fire safety services, occupational health services. The department is dedicated to promoting the health and safety of students, staff, contractors, visitors and others in the University and creating a safe environment for all through guidance, coordination, monitoring and dissemination of information.
More information on the department website.

We are glad to welcome a new member to our network: The Centre for Risk, Safety and the Environment (CERISE). The center is part of The Ioannis Gregoriou School of Business Administration, Nicosia, Cyprus.
CERISE's mission is to promote to the wider public and the local SME (industrial and business) communities the values and necessities of safety. To provide to the local SME (industrial and business) communities applied solutions, executive training and consulting. To create a new generation of highly educated researchers and scholars in the areas of Risk, Safety and the Environment.
More information on the member's page of CERISE.

In February 2016, the next course of the interdisciplinary postgraduate program DAS Work+Health starts. The program is a cooperation of the University of Zurich and the University of Lausanne. It integrates the three specialisations Occupational Health Development, Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Medi- cine.
The English speaking 4-semester part-time program comprises of 30 ECTS-points, equaling about 60 on- campus and excursion days in total 12 to 13 modules per specialisation. Lectures will be held in Lausanne and Zurich, Switzerland, excursions may take place all over in Switzerland.
We foster interdisciplinarity, giving students with various professional and educational backgrounds the opportunity to learn and work together. The study program concludes in a project work, where our stu- dents proof their acquired skills and knowledge in working independently in small interdisciplinary groups on real work+health projects.
Target group: People interested in the field of work and health with an academic background in medicine, natural or social sciences, as well as headteachers of schools and safety experts at universities.
The course is open to everyone in or outside Switzerland meeting the admission criteria. Please find further information on our homepage www.mas-workandhealth.uzh.ch.
For any questions, please contact Sven Hoffmann, program manager DAS Work+Health; sven.hoffmann@uzh.ch