[Communication turned into prevention. The "European Week for the Safety and Health at Work": experience of the Italian Focal Point].
The constant focus on comprehensive quality of work and the promotion of an effective culture of prevention and communication, already indicated in the European Directives, gave new impetus to the strategy aimed at improving working conditions and workers' health. This study is aimed at identifying the successful factors of the European Week for Safety and Health at Work, an information and awareness campaign promoted by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work based in Bilbao, through the analysis of the campaign's project and of the results achieved in Italy. The European Week, now at its 7th edition, represents a peerless opportunity to spread the culture of risk prevention and to raise awareness on the adoption of measures to improve workplaces, above all in small and medium enterprises. It is, furthermore, a valuable tool to communicate and disseminate messages and to promote good practices on occupational safety and health. ISPESL is the Italian Focal Point of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and has been supporting the organization of the European Week in Italy, since the first edition. It has been strongly committing itself to promote and disseminate information on the event, relying on its national network which operates throughout the national territory. The ISPESL web-site--http://www.ispesl.it--contains a web page dedicated to European Weeks, providing information on the campaign and on the related initiatives, on the materials, and on the main events taking place in Italy.
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ISPESL, Dip to Documentazione, Informazione e Formazione, Roma, Italia.
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D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016272:Occupational Health