European Hazards Conference Latvia

10th European Hazards Conference September 29th to October 1st 2006, Beach Hotel, Jurmula, LATVIA

“Workers finding a voice in a new Europe”

Bringing together workplace activists from the older and new EU member states together with occupational health and safety specialists and academics, this conference aims:

• To work for equality of health & safety protection across Europe;
• To build support for the role of trade unions and their representatives on health and safety issues;
• To raise awareness at European level (and beyond) of the danger of the new member states and other parts of the world becoming a pool of cheap and at-risk labour;
• To extend the EWHN to new member states; and
• To provide a platform for the development of national work hazards networks in the Baltic countries and throughout Europe.

Beach Hotel, Jurmula, LATVIA

Programme to include
Workplace visits, Opening Plenary Session, Workshops,
Information Meetings, Meetings, Social Event and Final Plenary.

Key Workshops:
Risk Transfer • Work-Pressures and Stress • Construction • Fixing the Workplace, not the Worker • Health and Safety - a tool for Activists

Topic Workshops: Agency Working
Bullying and Harassment • Chemical Risk Management in SME • Deregulation • Diversity and Equality • Health Promotion • Labour Inspectorates • Occupational Health Services • Working Conditions and Media

Further details and workshop selections to be published in due course.

We are looking for committed activists who wish to use this Conference to help co-workers in new EU states address the safety-at-work agenda and to learn more about the wider European Safety programme.

UK Delegate Residential fee approximately £300 (excluding travel costs) Direct Flights from Heathrow or Stansted to Riga - approx £110 return).

Further information from, and expressions of interest please to Caroline Bedale, Hazards Campaign
c.bedale@unisonfree.net mark your request “Latvia EWHN”

More: http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/docs/riga.htm