***UPDATE***The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (OSHA) launches the Healthy Workplaces campaign on Risk Assessment

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (OSHA) will present its European campaign on Risk Assessment at a press conference in Brussels on 13 June 2008.

Jukka Takala, Director of EU-OSHA, will highlight the importance of the campaign topic and give an insight into the campaign activities that will take place over the coming two years. Commissioner Vladimír Špidla will put the campaign in the wider context of the Community Strategy for Health and Safety at Work (2007 - 2012). The Slovenian EU Presidency will be represented by Romana Tomc, State Secretary of Labour, Family and Social Affairs.

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Press Conference Launch

The Launch went ahead at the press conference and Jukka Takala talked about the programme: “With the Healthy Workplaces campaign we want to encourage enterprises to carry out risk assessment properly, involving everyone in the workplace. We want to promote good practice that can be adapted to other workplaces.

"...risk assessment is not necessarily complicated, bureaucratic or a task only for experts. This is a mistaken belief that is particularly common among SMEs."

"...proper risk assessment also brings a number of business benefits, because making workplaces safer and healthier helps to reduce absenteeism and insurance costs, and increases worker motivation and productivity.”

He was followed by Romana Tomc, Slovenian State Secretary of Labour, Family and Social Affairs who said that: “Risk assessment ultimately also helps to reduce the burden on national health care systems”

For further information

 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (OSHA).
 European campaign on Risk Assessment
 Press conference agenda
 Press Conference Report EPHA related articles

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