European Campaign for Safety and Health at Work 2008-09

European Week for Safety and Health 2008

Risk Assessment : 20^th to 24^th October 2008

The European Campaign for Safety and Health at Work for 2008-09 will focus on risk assessment.

This two-year campaign is aimed at a wide range of stakeholders, including employers, workers and safety representatives, and is intended to promote the benefits of completing and implementing a risk assessment. The campaign seeks to demystify the risk assessment process to show that risk assessment is not necessarily complicated, bureaucratic or a task only for experts.

The campaign also aims to raise awareness on this issue, provide information and practical advice, encourage activities that have a positive impact in the workplace, and identify and recognise good practice.

Everybody has an interest in an evaluation of the risks and corrective measures to be put in place, and everyone in the workplace has a valuable contribution to make; assessing risks is in the interest of both companies and their workers. It is a partnership approach and should be carried out with the active involvement of the whole workforce; workers have to be involved and consulted in the risk assessment process.

For more detailed information on this year’s campaign please visit the website of the European Agency for Health & Safety at Work at http://osha.europa.eu/en/campaigns/hw2008 .

In addition, for further extensive information on risk assessment, as well as tools, case studies and advice, please visit the dedicated risk management web pages on the HSE website.

If you have any Health & Safety issues regarding Risk Assessment please contact the Health & Safety Unit ;

Tel : 0141 287 6539    Fax : 0141 287 8101

Email : healthandsafety@glasgow.gov.uk