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Advancing Workplace Safety: Insights from the EuroSafe1 Conference

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The EuroSafe1 European Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in June 2006 brought together experts to discuss advancements in workplace safety. Key speakers, including Mr. Luciano Marchiori and Mr. Celestino Piz, outlined the successes and challenges faced within the EU, highlighting obstacles like poverty and illiteracy that hinder progress. Emphasizing the need for international cooperation, the conference called for improved occupational health services and robust preventive measures. With over 2 million workers in the Veneto region alone, a collaborative effort is essential to ensure safer working environments across Europe.

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Advancing Workplace Safety: Insights from the EuroSafe1 Conference

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  1. EuroSafe1° European Conference onInjury Prevention and Safety PromotionWORKPLACE SAFETYbreak out session Mr. Luciano Marchiori (Head SPISAL ULSS 20 Verona – regional co-ordinator)Mr. Celestino Piz (Head SPISAL ULSS 6 Vicenza)Mr. Claudio Detogni (Head International Relations Office ULSS 20 Verona) Vienna June 2006

  2. ULSS 20 VERONA • Local Public Social Health Authority • 21 ULSS in Veneto Region • Coordination SPISALs • Catchment area 4,500,000 inh. (Veneto) • 2,000,000 workers

  3. SESSION OBJECTIVES • To date successes in Europe • How can we: • Take advantage of existing resources/opportunities • Overcome barriers to progress • What activities to be undertaken in EU to support movement • Role of international organizations can play

  4. International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH)Centennial Declaration3,000 experts and specialistsMilan - June 11° 2006 Foto Gorzegno

  5. The need for occupational health and safety is as evident as it was 100 yrs ago • 270 mil.s occupational accidents • 360.000 fatalities

  6. Globalization • The process has not succeeded in equalising the conditions of work (but the opposite). Gaps are increasing. • Causes of poor safety: • Poverty, inequality, underdevelopment • Illiteracy, lack of education • Poor access to health services • Low social protection

  7. The ICOH wants to call International Organizations… …to join forces for improvement of the conditions of work, health, safety and well-being at work and to provide basic occupational health services to all working people throughout the world

  8. …and calls for actions • Prevention and control through legal and appropriate means • Development of working conditions • Provision of occupational health services • Research efforts • Adopt occupational health as a basic right of working people

  9. WORKPLACE SAFETY AND THE EU It is based on the article 31 of the Charter of the Fundamental Rights: “every worker has the right to working conditions which respect his or her health, safety and dignity”

  10. HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK IN THE SOCIAL POLICY IN THE UNION • More than 18 directives adopted by the Council and the European Parliament have entered into force since 1992

  11. EUROSAFE VISION Task Force on workplace safety: Making the working place a safer place where to work in Europe

  12. ITALIAN REGIONS

  13. VENETO REGION

  14. VENETO REGION (CONT.)

  15. VENETO REGION

  16. “food for thoughts”… while in the EU 15 area construction sector accounted for 11% of fatal accidents in 2001, in Veneto Region the figure is 40% of all work related fatal accidents registered in 2002, 2003 and 2004

  17. CONCLUSIONS Despite evident achievements and success in the last years it should be noted that cross-regional differences are often hidden by national or European figures. Prevention policies and actions need these differencies be taken into account

  18. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! For Additional Information: Claudio Detogni ULSS 20 - Verona International Relations Office Tel. +39 045 807 6040 internazionali@ulss20.verona.it

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