On 24 January 2015, the Foundation Center for Safety & Health at Work, Sofia, will hold the fifth edition of the traditional competition "Annual National Awards for safety and health at work – 2014". The event is organized by the Foundation Centre with support of the Labour Inspectorate.
This year, the organizers of the event made a formal invitation to the enterprises, registered and operating in the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria, to participate in this contest of the annual national awards for safety and health at work. The best companies in OSH will be awarded in several categories.
At the beginning of June 2015, the Foundation Center for Safety & Health at Work will organize an OSH conference at the Black Sea.
More information on the website fcbzr.org.

In July, we reported about an impact evaluation of the Napo for Teachers initiative by EU-OSHA, conducted by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES), UK.
Napo for Teachers is a series of education toolkits for teachers, aimed at introducing health and safety topics to primary school children in an educational, yet fun and imaginative way using the Napo clips and creative activities. Now the evaluation entered the second stage: a teacher survey. The survey is available in 11 languages.
To take take part in the survey, please click here: Teacher survey about Napo for teachers. The survey will open in a new browser window. Please send an email to any teacher contacts you know with a link to the survey in addition. Thank you for your help!
Find out more about Napo for teachers on the website, more about the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) here.

The ENETOSH network has grown again and has now 72 members from 31 countries worldwide. We have three new members: Theophilos Mantzanas Ph.D., as an individual member representing HellasCon, SA, Greece, Ivan Williams Jimenez, PhD Researcher at Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain, and XPLICAME Ltda, an education institute from Barranquilla, Colombia. CEO of XPLICAME is Martin Reichenauer, who also took over the role of an ENETOSH Ambassador for Colombia. More information and contact details in our member's area.

In the scope of the XX World Congress in Frankfurt, the first International Youth Congress for Safety and Health at Work has been organized by the institution for statutory accident insurance and prevention in the wood and metal sector (BGHM) of the German Social Accident Insurance. 42 apprentices from different countries participated in the Youth Congress, talking, thinking, exchanging and developing ideas about safety and health at work. The outcome of the Youth Congress was immediately presented to the visitors of the Forum for Prevention and within a symposium at the XX World Congress.
Steve Horvath from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety writes in his blog article about the Youth Congress: "One of the most meaningful events organized at the triennial World Congress on Health and Safety was the establishment of the first International Youth Congress. It was my honour to be involved with such a valuable initiative and to have the opportunity to introduce these young participants to the World Congress at the symposium I co-chaired and helped organize."
For more information, pictures and videos of the Youth Congress, please go to the Blog of Steve Horwath at CCOHS, the website of DGUV "Jugend will sich erleben (Youth wants self-experience)" - mostly in German - and the documentation of the World Congress (about the symposium "Creating a safe and healthy learning and working environment" and the “Forum for prevention”).