Press Release: European organisations and multinationals join forces to promote safe and healthy workplaces

Nine pan-European and multinational organisations signed up, in October 2008, to be part of the first wave of official partners of the Healthy Workplaces campaign during 2008-09. Organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), the campaign focuses on the evaluation of health and safety risks and aims at reducing work-related accidents and illnesses. This will be the second year of the two year long Healthy Workplaces campaign, the first part being entitled 'the Healthy Workplace: Good for you - Good for business'.

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European Agency for Safety and Health at Work: Press Release, 2.12.08: Support grows for European risk assessment campaign http://osha.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/support-grows-for-european-risk-assessment-campaign

EU-OSHA: Topics: Risk assessment http://osha.europa.eu/en/topics/riskassessment

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work: Press Release, 20.10.08: European Week aims at cutting workplace accidents and diseases http://osha.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/eu-health-and-safety-week-launched-to-reduce-workplace-accidents-and-diseases

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