OHSEI
Theme Conference on Occupational diseases: regional, national
and workplace strategies to control them
What are you going to do to reduce the estimated 2 million
deaths each from occupational disease? Mark this important
date in your calendar and arrange to be there.
Go to article.
Also see a news release outlining our hopes for the Theme
Conference.
Go to article.
OHSEI trains Thai Professional Safety Officers
OHSEI has begun a Trainer training project with a provincial Professional Safety Officers Guild (SSOG based in Samut Prakharn, an industrial province close to
Bangkok). Go to
article.
The European Commission has created a new "environmental crimes" website.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/crime/index.htm
Contents: Environmental Crime
I Protection of the environment through Criminal law and
II Organized crime in the sphere of the environment
(Forwarded from Hazards Magazine www.hazards.org).
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WorkRights.ca: refuse to pollute
The Canadian Labour Congress has developed an interesting website WorkRights.ca. Workers' environmental rights are fairly new in Canada. The few rights that have been set in law are workers' right to refuse to pollute, and workers' right to report workplace pollution.
http://www.workrights.ca/Work+Environment/
Environmental+Rights.htm.
(Forwarded from Hazards Magazine www.hazards.org).
Go to article.
Work-related stress
Trade unions and the ILO are looking forward to avoid future workplace
epidemics. None of the issues being raised are new. They
are, however, capturing attention. The ILO has
published, and is licensing Trainers, to conduct training in Emerging
health-related problems at work under the acronym SOLVE:
Stress, TobaccO, AlcohoL, HIV/AIDS, ViolencE. The Danish trade union movement has taken a look at
work-related stress and has identified 10 good examples for
prevention. Go to article.
Cost of injuries
Occupational health and safety is a cost they say. Well, not preventing workplace accidents or disease can be
expensive, too. Go to
article.
New ILO training materials
The ILO EASMAT Senior Advisor on Occupational health and safety, Tsuyoshi Kawakami has produced a new training program. This time it is part of a project targeted to the agricultural
sector. Go to
article.
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