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Healthy bakeries for flavoured bread? OiRA is the key

Slips, trips and falls, loading and unloading heavy bags, noise, ammonia odour and flour dust… these are just few of the dominant hazards that affect bakers’ safety and health. Eight Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) tools for this sector... Lisätietoa

Plan a risk assessment at your workplace with this new generic OiRA tool

Imagine any enterprise empowered to assess safety and health risks in a quick and easy way: a newly released generic Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) tool offers this opportunity for free.  It can help any business, no matter what the... Lisätietoa

OiRA opens the door to safety and health in manufacturing sector

Manufacturing processes involve a large number of hazards. Working with heavy machinery, in confined spaces and with dangerous substances … all take their toll on manufacturing workers. 27 Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) tools in... Lisätietoa

Exploring OiRA tools dedicated to the hotel sector in Greece

Owners, management personnel and safety technicians from hotels in the Crete region benefit from an online training session on 5 December dedicated to the OiRA (Online interactive Risk Assessment) programme and tools. Organised by our national... Lisätietoa

Greece: hospitality students learn the importance of effective risk assessment with OiRA tools

The Department of Tourism Management of the University of West Attica, in cooperation with the Greek national focal point, provides an online OiRA (Online interactive Risk Assessment) training seminar for students and teaching personnel on 29... Lisätietoa

Keeping retail workers healthy could not be simpler with OiRA tools

Shop workers are vulnerable at work as they face a number of safety and health risks caused by repetitive motions, reaching, heavy lifting, long periods of standing, slips and trips, and aggression from customers. To help workplaces identify and... Lisätietoa

Portugal: hairdressers and barbers learn to assess work-related risks with OiRA

Given the importance of improving the working conditions of hairdressers and barbers, our Portuguese focal point host a webinar on 10 November to address ways to prevent work-related illnesses and accidents in these workplaces. Participants also... Lisätietoa

Improving health and safety in the leather and tanning industry

The processes used in the leather tanning industry involve exposure to a wide range of chemicals that affect workers’ health. To address this, the EU sectoral social dialogue partners COTANCE and industriAll have developed an online tool, which has... Lisätietoa

Behind the scene of sport industry: workers need healthy environment

From moving heavy weights, to dealing with demanding clients and working long hours, there are many occupational risk for the workers in sports and recreation industry that may affect their safety and health. To protect workers, five Online... Lisätietoa

OiRA tools for safe and healthy live performance

Live performance venues and production environments are associated with a wide range of occupational safety and health risks related to equipment, chemicals and activities. Working at heights, in confined spaces, exposure to excess noise, to... Lisätietoa