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Shisha bars: BGN has determined minimum value for ventilation

A shisha bar needs an efficient, technical ventilation system. Efficient means that in the guest area at least 130 cubic metres of air per hour and per burning hookah must be removed and replaced by fresh air. This was identified by the German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the foodstuffs and catering industry (BGN) in practice tests. Ventilation through open windows and doors is usually not sufficient.

Safety of liquefied natural gas facilities - Propane and butane

This compendium has been prepared in close co-operation with liquefied petroleum gas experts from the ISSA-Sections for the Chemical Industry and Machinery and Systems Safety. It is intended to enable project engineers, plant managers, safety specialists, etc. who have no special knowledge of liquefied gases to assess whether hazards may arise from liquefied gases in their own plant or when constructing, equipping and installing liquefied gas plants.

Safety Award of the ISSA-Section Machine and System Safety

The safety of machines has always been a major focus for the ISSA Section Machine and System Safety. Progress has been made in the past, but there are still too many accidents in relation with machines worldwide which not only cause human suffering, but also entail substantial costs for the social insurance systems.

For this reason, the ISSA Section Machine and System Safety invited entries for a safety award to motivate machine manufacturers to pursue machine safety and ergonomics even stronger than before. The Safety Award will be relaunched every three years.

Safe ventilation in times of the Corona-pandemic: shock ventilation, technical ventilation, air purification

Regular and abundant ventilation is very important, especially in times of the pandemic. This is because it not only improves the air quality, but also reduces the risk of infection, as the number of pathogens in the air can increase considerably in unventilated rooms. The BGN has produced a brochure for companies entitled "Safe ventilation in times of the Corona pandemic: shock ventilation, technical ventilation, air purification".

Strategic framework on health and safety at work 2021-2027

A short presentation

The advanced regulatory system and the a three-part approach (workers, employers and governments) are indicated as the basis for the improvements achieved on health and safety at work in the European Union in the 30 years and more since the promulgation of the framework directive 389/1991.

The five Safety Heroes!

In order to be able to work safely on electrical installations, they have to be completely disconnected for the duration of the repair or installation work. Especially during longer work assignments, however, there is an increased risk that other employees will reconnect an installation because they do not know that a colleague is working on it. For this reason, Five Safety Rules have been developed to provide ongoing protection from the beginning to the end of the work.

Self-check: Safety and health at work

With the self-check "Safety and health at work" you can find out how important the topics of safety and health at work are in your company and whether or how these topics are already integrated into everyday work. You should plan about 30 minutes to complete and evaluate the check.

Toolbox Talk

A Toolbox Talk is an informal safety meeting, or group discussion, that focuses on a particular safety protocol, topic, or workplace hazard. Toolbox Talk discussion guides can be used with your teams to support health and safety conversations at your worksite.

Safety Wrench - the safety key for locknuts in the food industry - awarded with the „BGN Prevention Prize 2018“

The Lübzer Brewery has been dealing with an occupational safety problem well known in the food industry: When working with jointed hook wrenches, such a wrench can slip off or tilt under the application of force and cause serious injuries.

© Rainer Gryc/AUVA

Safety award „Goldene Securitas”

Austria's economy is essentially based on the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises. For such companies, it is often an immense challenge to pay attention to the safety and security of their employees as well as their economic success. In order to facilitate their fulfillment of their obligations with regard to prevention, AUVA offers – among other things – free safety and occupational medical care provided by its AUVAsicher programme. Those companies that have gone beyond the mere fulfillment of their legal obligation, have been rewarded with the "Golden Securitas Award" since 2005 to present date by the AUVA in cooperation with the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO).

The self-check “safety and health in the enterprise”

The Berufsgenossenschaft Nahrungsmittel und Gaststätten (BGN) offers free of charge a self-check „safety and health in the enterprise“ as a web-app which can be used with each modern smartphone with up-dated browser.

With the self-check every entrepreneur of the BGN-branches can find out which significance the topics safety and health at work do have in their enterprise and if these topics have already been integrated in the daily work. This check is not time-consuming: about 30 minutes of process time and for evaluation.

A video explaining exposure to mould in inner rooms

Give the chop to mould!

Allergies to mould are an important health topic for bakers with allergic asthma and/or rhinopathy respectively rhinokonjunctivitis. It is the tasks of the employer to assure the protection against all hazards at the workplace caused by biological working materials. Besides the hazards arising at the workplace mould can also be of importance for your health in the private living environment.

Bakers suffering asthma but also other injured persons risk in the case of a high exposure to mould in the private environment that the allergic respiratory disease get worse. In about every tenth home damages caused by mould formation are found.

Publication series of BG RCI "kurz & bündig"

In the publication series of BG RCI “kurz & bündig” (short and succinct) themes of occupational safety and health are prepared in an easy and comprehensive way and explained clearly. Target group are in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the contents easy to understand suites, however, also for all other actors working in occupational safety who want to get a quick overview over important themes of occupational safety. Appropriate contents are, in addition, edited as checklists.

Systematic occupational safety and health by the help of GDA-ORGAcheck

GDA-ORGAcheck allows small and medium-sized enterprises to check and improve their occupational safety and health organization.

SafeYouth@Work Congress

Young workers today are the future leaders of our economies, and their safety and well-being will shape the world of tomorrow. However, they are also 40% more likely than older workers to suffer occupational injuries. Reasons for this include lack of skills, experience and training; inadequate supervision; limited knowledge of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) hazards and risks; and/or a lack of understanding of their rights.

Early defibrillation on workplaces

Every year, about 60.000 people in Italy die for heart failure, mostly as a consequence of ventricular fibrillation. To avoid such events, a quick intervention (no more than five minutes later) is necessary, by means of a semi-automatic defibrillator (DAE).

Safety first - really and truly!

In Italy in the Horeca sector (Hotels Restaurants Catering) even big companies do not generally have members of their own staff in charge of safety and health at workplace. Therefore external consultants are the ones hired to ensure the protection of safety, health and wellbeing of employees, guests and visitors.

Safety planning in a construction site

This publication provides a guidance to the application of the current regulations concerning occupational safety and health on construction sites (Chapter IV of the Legislative Decree 81/2008 as amended) and suggests a method for drawing up the safety plans, based on a careful assessment of all risks. Moreover, you can find some patterns, provided with practical examples, for the elaboration of:

Safety and Coordination Plan (SCP)
Safety and Operational Plan (SOP)

Tips for young workers

A British Safety Council animation that uses humour to encourage school children to use common sense to spot and report hazards. Featuring a careless giraffe, a dopey dog and a reckless rabbit who experience a number of self-inflicted injuries.

Safety Flyer

The present safety flyers are addressed to enterprises (users, press installers, employers) as well as to safety experts and safety & health authorities.

The safety flyers give short information about the requirements set in regulation but also about new technologies (servo presses, hybrid presses).

Eliminate stress – prevention of stress in enterprises

In the past, stress was mainly considered an individual problem that required direct intervention on each person; over the years, however, scientific evidence has accumulated about the fact that, frequently, even work organization can be at the origin of the determination and / or aggravation of stress.

Fit and healthy in small enterprises

Welding fumes

The richly illustrated brochure that is presented here offers answers to the most frequently asked questions on the safe and economic avoidance of welding fumes at the workplace.

Stress: speak up, get help

Stress is the feeling of being under too much mental or emotional pressure. Pressure turns into stress when you feel unable to cope. People have different ways of reacting to stress, so a situation that feels stressful to one person may be motivating to someone else.

Keep your back healthy in order to work better

How to keep your back healthy in order to work better (various Authors)
This material shows some significant aspects of the prevention of back pain, the most common symptom of malaise among European workers, both male and females
(see 5th European Working Conditions Survey Eurofound 2012, Fifth European Working Conditions Survey, Publications Office of the European Union)

Ultraviolet solar radiation: a risk for outdoor workers

Ultraviolet solar radiations represents an occupational risk for all people working outdoor (bricklayers, farmers, fishermen, lifeguards and so on). This flyer contains basic information and simple hints to protect the skin from an extended exposure to sunlight.

Safe handling of stone materials on the service areas

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Safety flyer for the hairdressing salons

With this flyer the Occupational Safety And Health Service Department of Public Health of the Local health Unit of Venice gives its contribution to the prevention activities in the hairdressing sector. The main occupational risks of hairdressing are here shortly reviewed and the safety check used for the enforcement activities of the Occupational Safety And Health Office is shown. All through the year 2016 this safety check was used for the surveys of the Occupational Safety And Health Service of Venice in more than thirty hairdressing salons.

Safety and Health in the construction industry: a common basis

The CRAM has installed in cooperation with the professional associations of the Construction Industry and Public Works in the region Alsace-Moselle a common basis for measures for health and safety at construction sites. It proposes tools to better handle risks resulting from falls from the height, transporting material and lack of coordination and hygiene.

Awareness campaign "Risk behaviour forest"

In Switzerland, forestry is one of the branches with the highest accident numbers. The Suisse Accident Insurer, Suva, developed the campaign "Risk behaviour forestry" with the objective to reduce the numbers of accidents in forest enterprises, especially for felling activities.

Safety in sawmills

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Specifications for the design of towers, ladders and shoring towers Prevention of occupational risks CRAMIF Technical Memorandum N° 24

This brochure, updated in November 2007, was carried out with and to the attention of tower constructors. It concerns the towers under 6 meters meeting the requirements of safe assembly/disassembly.

Technical Notebooks

This collection, “Technical Notebooks” is made of 8 booklets that describe the features of some particular equipment, usually available in temporary or mobile construction sites.

Safety guide for roofing

A partnership between the professional Organization for Prevention in the Construction Industry and Public Works (OPPBTP), the Regional Health Insurance Fund for Parisian region (CRAMIF), unions representing artisans and SMEs of the roofing sector (CAPEB) and the union for HVAC engineering enterprises and plumbing coverage (GCCP) helped to prepare documents that provide an overview of prevention tools, best practices and decision support for enterprises of the roofing sector.

Events on this topic were held

Working together safely

A Guide for Health and Safety at Work for Tourism.

Grow safety!!!

This leaflet points out safety requirements to be fulfilled by motor cultivators, motor hoes and motor hoes with driving wheels, especially if manufactured after 1st January 2011.

Let’s purchase safely!

This leaflet is addressed to manufacturers, sellers and hirers of agricultural or forest machinery. It briefly describes duties and obligations which the above mentioned individuals have, according to European and Italian regulations.

Safe on the field…safe on the road! Safety requirements for tractors

This leaflet sums up thesafety requirements with which tractors must comply, according to Italian laws (Legislative Decree n° 81/2008 and Street Code), pointing out how those tractors lacking safety equipment have to be adapted to standards.

Safe on the field…safe on the road! Safety requirements for agricultural or forest tractors equipped with loading platform (transporters)

This leaflet describes safety requirements for particular agricultural machines, called “transporters”, that is agricultural or forest tractors equipped with loading platforms. Transporters must have retention systems (safety belts) for the driver and anti-overturning equipment.

Safe on the field…safe on the road! Periodical check of the maintenance state and efficiency of agricultural or forest tractors and driving license

This leaflet shows the checks to be performed, according to Legislative Decree n° 81/2008, during maintenance operations on agricultural or forest tractors. Furthermore, the leaflet explains how to obtain a driving license for such tractors.

Traditional catering

In the catering industry, the reduction of the difficulties in recruiting requires the improvement of the working conditions and the development of the occupational risks prevention.

In France there are around 1 680 000 working days that are lost each year due to catering-related activities, accidents at work, commuting accidents and professional diseases. This represents the equivalent of 4 600 full-time jobs over the year!

Safe nanotechnology on workplaces

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Safety for operators of plants for treatment and storage of Municipal Waste

This booklet is dedicated to the operators of plants for:

treatment of Municipal Waste;
final storage of waste (landfills).