Safe maintenance is the focus of the European Week for Safety and Health at Work which ends tomorrow.

A programme of events has included workshops, seminars and exhibitions. The “week” is part of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign, organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and its partners across the EU and beyond.

“The safe maintenance campaign is drawing record levels of involvement with our Europe-wide network of focal points and more than 50 companies and organisations that joined as official campaign partners,” Christa Sedlatschek, director of EU-OSHA, explained.

“Since April last year, the campaign has mobilised some 10,000 people though more than a hundred partnership meetings and a series of media activities, to bring safe maintenance to the fore. Benefits for organisations of being a campaign partner include greater employee engagement (43 per cent) and better networking activities (64 per cent).”

The new Safe Maintenance Magazine, which may be downloaded from http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/magazine/magazine12 , features articles demonstrating a wide range of maintenance-related issues that impact safety and health in the workplace, including maintenance organisation and planning, risk assessment, human behaviour, chemical safety, design, subcontracting, communication and inspection of personal protective equipment.

A wide variety of material in 24 languages is downloadable from the Healthy Workplaces Campaign website at http://hw.osha.europa.eu .