OSH Blog
The aim of this blog is to bring you news about developments in occupational safety and health across the EU and beyond, and also about EU-OSHA initiatives and activities to fulfill our mission.
We are one of the smallest EU agencies and cannot promise to reply to every comment, but we will read them and bear them in mind to shape our future work.
15th International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers
April 28 is the 15th International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers with the theme unions make work safer. The day is used to remember those who died as a result of work around the world and to campaign for better working conditions. If, according to the former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, "safety and health at work is not only sound economic policy, it is a basic human right", then many men and women are having their fundamental rights denied.
Takala talks - EU-OSHA blog’s first post
I would like to welcome you to the launch of the EU-OSHA blog, and explain why we have decided to take this step and how we hope that you can get involved. From the very beginning of the Agency’s activities –back in 1996, when Internet access was far from widespread– we saw the World Wide Web as the fastest and most cost-effective channel for information dissemination. Not everyone believed that ‘this Web thing’ would go very far (we had to call it an “Experimental World Wide Web service”!), but we made every effort to turn it into an efficient communication channel.
