The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has recently updated the health-care section on its website to include a broader variety of good-practice information.
Around 10 per cent of European workers are employed in health care, and more than three quarters of them are women. The sector encompasses a wide range of activities and environments that can pose a threat to health, so the Agency has included more information and case studies on subjects like needlestick and sharps injuries, dealing with violence, and promoting good mental health.
Checklists, risk-assessment tools and FAQs are also available to help duty-holders address and monitor the biological, chemical, physical, ergonomic and psychosocial risks faced by health-care workers.
Meanwhile, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) has launched a new magazine devoted to health and safety. HesaMag is a twice-yearly publication and it replaces the HESA newsletter. Laurent Vogel, director of the ETUI’s health and safety department, said: “HesaMag aims to show that occupational health is not just a matter for the specialists, it is equally a question of everyday life and a major political issue.”
The current issue contains articles on nanotechnology, the electromagnetic fields directive, and safer working in the hair and beauty sector.
In this episode of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.
We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.
