On 18 June 2024, the International Social Security Association and the Institute of Global Safety Promotion (IGSAP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the organization of a Safety, Health and Well-being Week at next year’s EXPO 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, Japan. From 27 to 29 May 2024, the Symposium: Cultural Diversity at Work: Safe and Healthy Integration of Skilled Workers took place in Dresden, Germany and online. It was organized by the ISSA Sections on Prevention of Occupational Risks in Health Services and in Transportation. From 4 to 6 June, around 945 participants, exhibitors and speakers met at the AUVA - Forum Prävention 2024 in Innsbruck.Austria's most important specialist event in the field of prevention, organized annually by AUVA offers a multifaceted platform for training, exchange and insight into trends in occupational safety and health. Climate change involves many scientific and technical concepts that can be difficult to understand. The Section for Research on Prevention has put together a comprehensive Glossary of important climate change terms (148 terms on 30 pages). IOSH’s latest report highlights the uncertain future facing workers, with advances in technology, climate change and adaptations to ways of working potentially posing risks to people’s health, safety and well-being. Safeguards on machines are important. But what happens when safety devices themselves become a problem? This new DGUV film, addressed to manufacturers of machines and systems, highlights the challenges associated with defeated safeguards. At the ISSA Good Practice Awards for Europe 2024 held in Porto, Portugal in April, the jury rewarded three good practices of the National Sickness Insurance Fund in France focussed on occupational risk prevention. In connection with the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April 2024, the International Social Security Association (ISSA) published an analysis of good practices in prevention, building on ISSA Guidelines and Vision Zero. This article introduces recent Vision Zero and occupational safety and health implementation initiatives developed by European institutions. It underscores the importance of selecting the most suitable prevention approach for different target groups, and outlines both obstacles and opportunities that can help progress in prevention.
Already existing in English, this guidance that is the result of an international working group of occupational safety and health (OSH) experts has been published by the ISSA Electricity Section in Spanish. |
