In January 2018, the International Labour Office published a Special Issue of its OSH Newsletter, with the main topic networking.
This Special Issue is based on the ILO global survey on OSH knowledge agencies, institutions and organizations (AIO) which was undertaken in 2016 to constitute, for the first time, a comprehensive global knowledge base of their scope of work and international networking practices.
The Special Issue of the OSH Newsletter was produced and published through the collaborative effort of the ILO, the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), and the Department of Public Health/Occupational Health of Helsinki University (HU), and financially supported by the ILO (Grant from the Republic of Korea) and ICOH.
Please click here to access the ILO website and download the newsletter

Once more, Diana Policarpo presented the Mind Safety - Safety Matters! project, coordinated by the Authority for Working Conditions (ACT), Portugal, at the INTERNATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY CONGRESS (IOHSC2017), invited by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Occupational Health and Safety Department, 6 – 7 December 2017” in Istanbul, Turkey.
This communication focuses on MS-SM project which integrates strategic partnerships to establish a collaborative and networked practice to study and propose innovative practices and materials for the teaching of occupational health and safety concepts, thus fostering a risk perception in the young people of school age and contributing to the creation of a safety culture.
The absence of workplace accidents occurs in companies where safety is a core nuclear value, meaning a value that translates into consistency between decisions, policies, resource distribution and organizational practices, where productivity never threatens safety. Therefore, with this project we intend to awaken our conscience and set out a path for the implementation of a safety culture that is expected, in the medium and long term, to be reflected in the reduction of occupational accidents and diseases in Europe and particularly in Portugal.
In conclusion, this conference provided the participants with a successful exchange of experiences and good practices in various contexts, whether professional or scholar.

In Singapore, at the XXI World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Matthew Holder of the British Safety Council had the opportunity to do an interview with Dr Ulrike Bollmann, founder and coordinator of the ENETOSH network.
The interview was published in the Safety Management Magazine.
Please find out more about the magazine here and read the interview here.

Our new member Pravinkumar D. Ukhlikar, Vice-Principal of the Governmental Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Latur, Maharastra, India, conducted a OSH training session on 15 November 2017 at the ITI with almost 300 participants.
The participants were VET institutional staff, students, local industry personnel and university graduates. Aim of the session was to sensitize participants on OSH training. Mr. Ukhlikar also took this opportunity to introduce the ENETOSH network and its activities to the participants. We look forward to more OSH experts being active in our network.
Find out more about the Industrial Training Institutes here.