OSHAfrica 2019 Conference, Johannesburg - Main contents

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This historic event aims to bring together stakeholders from across Africa and beyond to discuss the existing challenges in Occupational Safety and Health in Africa.

It will be of interest to anyone who wants to help translate these challenges into opportunities and practice, for the benefit of the region and the world at large.

This event will be the inaugural conference of OSHAfrica, and marks the beginning of the international triennal conferences which will be held across the African continent.

This event will be highly interactive, providing useful and meaningful deliberation about daily occupational safety and health issues across individual, organisational, national and regional levels.

Links

Website of the Event

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) works to make European workplaces safer, healthier and more productive – for the benefit of businesses, employees and governments. The agency promotes a culture of risk prevention to improve working conditions in Europe.

What EU-OSHA does

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  Anticipating change: Foresight projects highlight and study new and emerging OSH risks
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  Facts and figures: gathering and disseminating information through the ESENER enterprise survey and OSH overviews on specific topics to identify priorities
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  Tools for good OSH management: Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) for small and medium-sized enterprises
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  Raising awareness: through 2-year Healthy Workplaces Campaigns across Europe and NAPO films on workplace safety and health
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  Networking knowledge: OSHwiki online encyclopaedia of accurate and reliable OSH information
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  Strategic networking: partnerships with governments, employers’ and workers’ organisations