Campaign closes

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has brought its Safe Maintenance Campaign to a close.

Director, Dr Christa Sedlatschek, says: "Since its launch in April 2010, the Healthy Workplaces Campaign on Safe Maintenance has mobilised some 10,000 people through a series of over 300 partnership meetings, information sessions and awareness-raising activities, all with the goal of bringing the importance of safe maintenance to the fore. I am confident that, through this campaign, we have helped to prevent significant numbers of people being hurt at work in Europe." A maintenance module, developed for EU-OSHA's Online interactive Risk Assessment tools (OiRA), enables companies to take a structured approach to maintenance.