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Austria

Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt (AUVA)
The AUVA is the Austrian Social Insurance for Occupational Risks for approximately 3 million employed persons and 1.3 million school children and students.

Austrian Network for Workplace Health Promotion
The Network was founded in 1996. In each of nine provinces there is a regional office of the Network where those interested can obtain information and advice.The regional offices work together on the development of WHP in order to achieve a common understanding of it throughout the whole of the country.

Bundesarbeitskammer
Die Bundeskammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte ist die gesetzliche Interessenvertretung von rund 2,5 Mio Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer. Beschäftigung, Weiterbildung, Qualifizierung und Wiedereingliederung von Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern in den Arbeitsmarkt gehören neben arbeits- und sozialrechtlichen Themen und dem Verbraucherschutz zu den wichtigsten Arbeitsschwerpunkten der Bundeskammer.

Fund for a Healthy Austria (FGÖ)
FGÖ is the national center of competence in health promotion and in prevention. FGÖ is a service provider that funds projects and develops activities and campaigns to make healthy life styles and healthy life settings attainable for as many people in Austria as possible.

Main Association of Austrian Social Security Institutions
The Main Association of Austrian Social Security Institutions offers information on the Austrian social security system, the benefits provided and the current legal situation. Most of the articles are taken from a special edition of the journal "Soziale Sicherheit" (Social Security). We hereby offer the international reader an up-to-date insight into the Austrian social security system. By doing this, we aim at answering some questions on the wide variety of benefits provided by our very successful system, which for more than one hundred years has provided protection against a diversity of risks in life.

ppm research + counsolting
work - health - environment
ppm is a multi-disciplinary research and training organisation focusing on occupational health and safety issues and on the working environment.

Belgium

Belgian Network for Workplace Health Promotion
The network aims to encourage the concept of workplace health promotion by collecting information and disseminating models of good practice, by creating synergies between different stakeholders.

European Public Health Alliance

INWAT - International Network of Women against Tobacco

VIG - Vlaams Instituut voor Gezondheidspromotie

WHO Collaborative Project on Identification and Management of Alcohol-related Problems

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Forum "Healthy and Safe Workplaces"
The goal of Bulgarian Forum "Healthy and safe workplaces" is the creation of a supportive environment for the development, distribution, and implementation of models of good practice in OHS and WHP (MOGP in OHS and WHP) in all sectors of national economy. As a national informal platform BF"HSW" operates as a catalyst for the implementation in company practice of MOGP.

European network workplace health promotion. National contact office - Bulgaria
Informations about NCO and ENWHP; links and publications, national situation and annual reports.

Denmark

Ministry of Social Welfare
The Ministry of Welfare is responsible for the central administration of the Danish social security and benefits system. The Government established The Ministry of Welfare on November 2007.

National Board of Health
The tasks of the National Board of Health are undertaken by a number of divisions and centres, which deal with related areas of expertise. Attached to the Board are the medical public health officers, who are responsible for monitoring health conditions in the respective counties. In addition, the National Board of Health employs a number of specialist advisers.

National Network for Workplace Health Promotion (Denmark)
To establish and maintain a network at national level in order ? To create the incentive and focus of all national stakeholders ? To coordinate initiatives ? To exchange information concerning workplace health promotion

National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NRCWE)
NRCWE is a government research institute under the Ministry of Employment. NRCWE is obligated to contribute to a safe, healthy and developing working environment in accordance with technical and social development. It is also a national centre for working environment research. This means that the institute conducts strategic research, and it contributes to securing the best possible coordination of Danish working environment research. Furthermore, NRCWE monitors international working environment research and the environmental development nationally as well as internationally.

Finland

Finnish Centre for Health Promotion (FCHP)
The FCHP aims to increase the functionality of communities and the possibilities of individual persons to manage their everyday life by enabling health-supporting choices in ways that increase the equality between various population groups. This goal requires our society to adopt the health promotion as an integral part of public policy.

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH)
The FIOH is a research and advisory institute whose main tasks are research, training of occupational health and safety professionals, provision of advisory services, and dissemination of information. Altogether 10 disciplines related to occupational health and safety are covered by the Institute. The Institute has a total of 850 employees. The Central Institute and six Regional Institutes provide services for the whole country

Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (MSAH)
The purpose of Finland's Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (MSAH) is to ensure that everyone in the country has the same possibilities to have a healthy and safe life.

France

ANACT- Initiative for contributing a future french WHP transversal dynamic
ANACT (Agence Nationale pour l'Amélioration des Conditions de Travail) helps businesses improve the performance of their organisation and the working conditions of their staff. ANACT produces and disseminate innovative methods for participative change, assists in the design and implementation of public policies in its field of competence. The Regional Associations members of ANACT Network (ARACTs) pass on these missions in the different regions, with particular focus on SMEs. Health and Work is a Department and a main line of development of ANACT// Fondée en 1973, l'ANACT est un établissement public à gestion tripartite qui dépend du Ministère de l'emploi et de la solidarité. Elle est administrée par un conseil d'administration représentant l'ensemble des confédérations d'employeurs et de salariés, des personnalités qualifiées ainsi que l'Etat. L'ANACT expérimente et développe des méthodologies de changement concerté du travail et de son organisation.

Risques et troubles Psychosociaux - Dimensions humaines au sein des entreprises
Risk and psychosocial disorders - Human Dimensions in companies

Institut national de prévention et d'éducation pour la santé (I'INPES)
The National Institute for Prevention and Health Education is a public establishment created by the law of 4 March 2002 relating to the rights of patients and quality of the health care system. It plays a major role in public health. It is specifically in charge of implementing policies in matters of prevention and health education within the more general framework of the orientations of public health policy set by the government.

Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (INRS)
INRS is a French Institute competent in the area of occupational risk prevention: protecting workers? health and safety and preventing occupational accidents or diseases. Its missions include: anticipating needs (with studies and research programmes), raising awareness (via information products, prevention campaigns) and assistance (through technical guidance, information resources, training).

Ministry of Health

Germany

Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen
Technologie-Beratungssystem der Arbeiterkammer Bremen, Hinweise auf verschiedene Projekte und Kooperationen, Fachmaterialien zum Download und zur Online-Bestellung

Bayerisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit
Aufgabenbeschreibung, Fachinformationen zu den Bereichen Arbeitsschutz, Arbeitsmedizin und Sicherheitstechnik, Schichtarbeit, Gesetze und Verordnungen im Volltext, Links, Empfehlungen zur Schichtplangestaltung

Bertelsmann Stiftung
Informationen zu den Projekten "Betriebliche Gesundheitspolitik und partnerschaftliche Unternehmenskultur", "Ernährung und Gesundheit" und "Gesundheitsförderung in der Schule"

Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA)
[Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health]
Infos zu den Forschungsprojekten, Veröffentlichungen, Informationsservice und Veranstaltungen der BAuA; Zentrale Koordination des EU-Netzwerkes für betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung

Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft für Sicherheit und Gesundheit bei der Arbeit e.V. (Basi)
Selbstdarstellung der BASI, umfangreiche Informationen zum A+A-Kongress 2001, Hinweise auf weitere Veranstaltungen und Termine, Links.

Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG)
Informationen zu den Themen Arbeitsschutz/ Unfallverhütung und Hilfe für Behinderte; außerdem: Gesetze und Verordnungen zum Download

Deutsches Netzwerk für Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung (DNBGF)
Das DNBGF ist eine Plattform für den Erfahrungs- und Informationsaustausch von Akteuren aus dem Bereich der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung in Deutschland, das auf eine Initiative des Europäischen Netzwerks für Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung ENWHP zurückgeht. Das Netzwerk verfolgt das Ziel, den politischen Stellenwert von BGF zu stärken und die Zusammenarbeit zwischen allen relevanten Akteure zu ermöglichen.

Gemeinschaftsinitiative Gesünder Arbeiten e.V. (GiGA) des Landes NRW
Infos, Medien und Links zum Thema Arbeitsschutz

Gesellschaft Arbeit und Ergonomie ? online e.V.
Umfangreiche, ständig erweiterte und aktualisierte Informationssammlung zu Ergonomie und Gesundheitsschutz bzw. betrieblicher Gesundheitsförderung; Schwerpunkt: Bildschirmarbeit; weitere Themen: Mobbing und Burnout, gesetzliche Grundlagen, aktuelle Tagungen, Hilfen für die Praxis etc. Abonnement eines Newsletters

Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (DGUV)
Die Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung ist der Spitzenverband der gewerblichen Berufsgenossenschaften und der Unfallkassen der öffentlichen Hand. Die Mitglieder der DGUV versichern mehr als 70 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland gegen Arbeits-, Wege- und Schulunfälle sowie Berufskrankheiten. Auf den Internetseite finden sich viele Informationen zur Prävention, z.B. Fachzeitschriften wie "Arbeit und Gesundheit", Datenbanken, Broschüren und andere Medien sowie Informationen zu Forschung und Qualifizierung.

Informationen zu den Projekten Betrieblicher Gesundheitspolitik etc.
Handbuch zur Gesundheit im Betrieb und andere Dokumente zum Download

Initiative Gesundheit und Arbeit (IGA)
In der Initiative Gesundheit und Arbeit (IGA) kooperieren gesetzliche Kranken- und Unfallversicherung, um gemeinsam Präventions- und Interventionsansätze für die Arbeitswelt zu entwickeln und zu verbessern. IGA wird getragen vom Bundesverband der Betriebskrankenkassen, der Deutschen Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung (DGUV), dem AOK-Bundesverband und dem Verband der Ersatzkasse (vdek).

Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit Niedersachsen e.V.
Kurzinformationen zu verschiedenen Bereichen der Gesundheitsförderung (Gesundheitsförderung im Gesundheitswesen, in und mit Schulen, geschlechtsspezifische Gesundheitsförderung, Gesundheitsförderung in den verschiedenen Lebensphasen etc.); außerdem: Infos zum Europäischen Netzwerk Frauengesundheit (EWHNET)

Netzwerk ?...mehr Gesundheit im Betrieb?, Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft für Gesundheitsförderung Saarland
Informationen zu Themen wie Gefahrstoffe, Betriebsklima, Gesundheitsberichte, Gesundheitszirkel, Suchtmittel am Arbeitsplatz; außerdem: Praxisbeispiele der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung in KMU; Gesetze, Verordnungen, Richtlinien; Tipps, Berichte etc.

Sozialnetzhessen
Informationsdienst zum Thema Gesundheitsförderung: Basisinformationen, Adressen von Ansprechpartnern, Rechtsgrundlagen, Beispiele aus der Praxis, Verweise auf weiterführende Literatur. Besonderer Schwerpunkt: Mobbing, Burnout

Team Gesundheit Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsmanagement mbH
Informationen zu betrieblicher Gesundheitsförderung, Prävention arbeitsbedingter Gesundheitsgefahren, Gesundheitsberichterstattung, AIDS-Prävention im Betrieb etc.

Verein für Arbeitsschutz und Gesundheit durch systemische Mobbingberatung und Mediation e.V.
Infos zu Mobbing und systemischer Mobbingberatung sowie zu Arbeitsschutz und Gesundheitsförderung

Greece

Hellenic Institute for Occupational Health and Safety

Hellenic Workplace Health Promotion Forum (HWHPF)
The Hellenic WHP Forum is aiming to protect and to improve the health of people at their working environment, in enterprises and organisations of the public and the private sector. The Hellenic WHP Forum goal will be achieved by networking and co-ordinating national institutional and non-institutional stakeholders, for the development and strengthening of workplace health promotion activities at national level and in harmonisation to the agreed policy and actions of the European Network of Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP).

Hungary

National Institute for Strategic Health Research (ESKI)
As a methodological research institute the ESKI carries out activities in the fields of health informatics, health economics, health system sciences, technology assessment and support policy in connection with the sector's formulation of health policy strategy and decision preparation.

National Institute of Occupational Health

Occupational Safety and Health in Hungary

Strategy Paper of the Health 21 Hungarian Foundation

Iceland

Administration of Occupational Safety and Health (Vinnueftirlitið)
The Administration of Occupational Safety and Health (AOSH) is an independent institution under the Ministry of Social Affairs. It´s role is to prevent accidents and health damage in the workplace. The current legislation, Act on Working Conditions, Health and Safety in the Workplace No. 46/1980, and a number of regulations ratified by the Minister for Social Affairs, cover workplaces on land with a staff of one or more persons. The AOSH is responsible for enforcing the legislation.

Directorate of Health (Landlæknisembættið)
The Directorate of Health is a government agency headed by the Medical Director of Health. Its five divisions are responsible for public health and clinical quality, infectious disease control and prevention, health statistics, patient complaints and clinical guidelines, and finance and administration.

Geðrækt
Website of the Icelandic Mental Health Promotion Project

Icelandic Association of Public Health (Félag um lýðheilsu)
The Icelandic Association of Public Health is a non-governmental association for people interested in public health in Iceland. The objectives are: Work towards evidence based public health polices; Call the attention of the public to possibilities to improve health; Stimulate inter-sectoral collaboration among all those who work with public health and have influence on the health of the population, such as policy makers, schools and institutions; Strive to improve the health of the population by safe-guarding the quality of public health work and guaranteeing equal access to services; Support training, development and research in public health issues and the application of established methods for evaluation of projects.

Ministry of Health and Social Security
Homepage of the Icelandic Ministry of Health and Social Security

Ministry of Social Affairs (Félagsmálaráðuneyti)
Website of the Icelandic Ministry of Social Affairs

VINNÍS
The Icelandic Ergonomic Society

Ireland

Department of Health and Children

Health and Safety Authority
The Health & Safety Authority is responsible for the promotion and enforcement of workplace health and safety in Ireland. The Authority monitors compliance with occupational health and safety legislation and takes enforcement action (including prosecution) where necessary. It is an expert centre for information and advice to employers, employees and self-employed and it promotes education, training and research.

Return
The RETURN Project (Between Welfare and Work) investigates the systems and processes which take place at agency and enterprise levels which deal with workers who have become long-term absent (LTA) from work due to illness or injury. RETURN characterises LTA responses in a number of EU Member States. The project was part-funded under the EU programme 'Improving the socio-economic knowledge base', and took place over a 24 month period from February 2000 to February 2002.

Work Research Centre
The Work Research Centre is a well-established, dynamic company specialising in research and consultancy on key aspects of organisational change, health and social service innovation and technological developments. WRC undertakes a range of research, development, consultancy and training activities relating to organisational change, health and social service innovation, and technological developments. Expertise includes also health in the workplace.

Italy

Il filo della vita ("The thread of life")
"The thread of life" is a free service, that provides answers to questions concerning health, safety and sanitary protection in working places. English Version

INAIL: Workers Compensation Authority
Within the workers' integrated protection system and with a view to curbing the social costs resulting from accidents, INAIL's fundamental commitment is to promote and encourage a prevention culture by helping all those concerned to develop a full conscience of what risks there actually are and an awareness that no working activity can be considered to completely safe.

Istituto Superiore di Sanità
The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute of Health) is a technical scientific organ of the Italian National Health Service. It enjoys scientific, organisational, administrative and accounting independence and is subject to monitoring by the Ministry of Health. It undertakes research, experimental, control and training functions in relation to public health in Italy. Among others, the institute Provides advice on protection of public health in collaboration with the Italian National Institute of Health and Safety at Work and with other bodies concerned with the production and use of thermo-electric and nuclear energy, radioactive substances and every form of energy used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

Ministero della Salute
Website of the Italian Health Ministry

Ministro del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali
Website of the Italian Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs

Network italiano per la Promozione della Salute nei Luoghi di Lavoro
The network wants to strengthen the development and dissemination of good workplace health practices in Italy. It aims to improve the profile of WHP and to build up all possible connections/co-operation between all relevant stakeholders.

Luxembourg

Association d?Assurance contre les Accidents
L'Association d'assurance contre les accidents est un établissement public autonome de la Sécurité sociale divisé administrativement dans une section industrielle et une section agricole et forestière

Association pour la Santé au Travail du Secteur Financier (ASTF)
L'Association pour la Santé au Travail du Secteur Financier (ASTF) est un service interentreprises de médecine du travail créé le 1er janvier 1995 en réaction à la loi du 17 juin 1994 concernant les services de santé au travail. L'objet de cette loi est d'assurer la protection de la santé des travailleurs sur les lieux de travail.

Division de la Santé au Travail (Ministère de la Santé)
Les missions de la division sont: Le contrôle du fonctionnement et de l?organisation de tous les services de santé au travail; l?examen de l?impact des nuisances sur la santé des travailleurs; l?instance de recours contre la décision du médecin du travail.

Service National de Santé au Travail
Le STM est un établissement d'utilité publique, institué par la loi du 17 juin 1994 concernant les services de santé au travail, auquel sont affiliées les entreprises les plus diverses. Le STM est présidé par un Comité-Directeur, composé d'un président, de 3 délégués des syndicats les plus représentatifs sur le plan national et de 3 délégués des organisations professionnelles des employeurs. Bien que le STM soit sous la tutelle du Ministre de la Santé, il ne fait partie ni du Ministère de la Santé, ni de la Direction de la Santé.

Service de Santé au Travail de l?Industrie (STI)
Les services et activités de STI sont: Examens médicauxConseils aux entreprises Etudes des lieux de travail Mesures d´ambiance Prévention des risques infectieux

Netherlands

Arbo.nl
Dutch Occupational Health and Safety site

Gezondheidsmanagement
Website about health management from NIGZ Divsion Work & Health.

Netherlands School of Public & Occupational Health (NSPOH)

NIGZ
In this part of the NIGZ site you will find a selection of recent information and documents about health promotion, public health and health care in the Netherlands.

TNO Kwaliteit van Leven
Under the heading 'Quality of Life', TNO carries out research aimed at providing concrete solutions to problems encountered by industry and government bodies. TNO develops knowledge for important national and international market clusters such as 'Agriculture and Nutrition' and 'Chemistry and Pharmaceutics'. Additionally TNO is an important partner for the government and public sectors in the area of (health) care and employment issues.

Norway

Ministry of Health and Care Services

The National Institute of Occupational Health
The National Institute of Occupational Health is a research institute contributing to the increased knowledge and practical applications of occupational health based on biomedical and natural sciences. The Institute is organized in the Ministry of Labour and Government Administration as an integrated part of the national system for protection of workers. The Institute collaborates with government agencies, workers- and employers organizations.

Poland

Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy
Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute

Ministerstwo Pracy i Polityki Społecznej
Website of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy

Ministerstwo Zdrowia
The Ministry of Health

Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
NIOM is a scientific research centre working in the field of occupational health. The Institute offers basic research and prepare expert opinions to improve public health and work safety. It promotes healthy lifestyles among Polish workers with the main goal of improving the quality of life and having a positive impact on workers' health, work environment and work capability. It has been involved in post-graduate training, editorial activities, and regulatory activities with respect to occupational safety and health and environmental health hazards.

Państwowy Zakład Higieny
National Institute of Hygiene

The National Centre for Workplace Health Promotion / NIOM
The Centre was established in the structure of The Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (NIOM) on 1st December 1996. IN 2001 it became the National Contact office of EN WHP . Detailed description of NCO Poland is now available in English

Portugal

General Directorate of Health. Health Ministry (DGS)
The network wants to strengthen the development and dissemination of good workplace health practices in Portugal. It aims to improve the profile of WHP and to stimulate the co-operation possible between all relevant stakeholders.

ISHST - Instituto para a Seguranca, Higiene e Saúde - no Trabalho

Romania

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work Romania

HOSPITAL OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE CLUJ-NAPOCA

Institutul IRECSON
IRECSON Complex Consultancy provides services such as consultancy in developing re-structuring of labour force.

Romanian Network for Workplace Health Promotion
The aim of this network is to gather all the relevant Romanian players in the field of Workplace Health Promotion so as to individuate and disseminate good workplace health practices in Romania.

Spain

AMTC (Valencian Community Occupational Health Association)
The ASOCIACIÓN DE MEDICINA DEL TRABAJO DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA (Valencian Community Occupational Health Association) has its ancestors on the Asociación Levantina de Especialistas en Medicina del Trabajo, founded in 1990 by a group of students from the School of Occupational Health, part of the University of Alicante. At 2001, aiming to adapt ourselves to the social, cultural and scientific reality of our times, the members decided to start the proper procedure to adopt the name of ASOCIACIÓN DE MEDICINA DEL TRABAJO DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA. It's a scientific association, young, but at the same time experienced and dynamic, formed by physicians whose goal is to improve the workers health. From this site, we want to invite you to take an active role in our Association and, in the meantime, making of it a meeting point for everyone interested in the Occupational Health area. It's an open forum which will allow us to better understand your suggestions, expectations, needs and works through your participation at the forums and activities developed by the ASOCIACION DE MEDICINA DEL TRABAJO DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA.

Fundació Catalana de Pneumologia

Fundació per a la motivació dels Recursos Humans

Fundación para la Prevención de Riesgos Laborales

Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Treball

Gobierno de Aragon

Gobierno de Aragon - Departamento de Salud, Consumo y Servicios Sociales

Instituto de Salud Carlos III
El Instituto de Salud "Carlos III" es un organismo público de investigación con carácter de organismo autónomo adscrito al Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, cuya misión es desarrollar y ofrecer servicios científico-técnicos de la más alta calidad dirigidos al Sistema Nacional de Salud y al conjunto de la sociedad.

Instituto Navarro de Salud Laboral
Polígono de Landaben, C/ E y F 31012 - PAMPLONA Tfno.: 948 42 37 00 - Fax: 948 42 37 30 Localización: Croquis de acceso al Instituto El Instituto Navarro de Salud Laboral es un organismo autónomo, adscrito al Departamento de Salud, cuyo objeto es el desarrollo de las acciones de asesoramiento técnico que competen a la Administración Pública Navarra, en el campo de la seguridad y salud en el trabajo. Sus actuaciones principales son a) actuaciones de promoción de la prevención de riesgos laborales y de asesoramiento técnico; b) actuaciones relacionadas con la salud de la población trabajadora; c) Colaboración en los planes de actuación que se establezcan en las Administraciones Públicas de Navarra en materia de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales.

La Prevención
El primer portal nacional del sector de la Prevención de Riesgos Laborales

Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo
Information on work related health programs on the website of the Ministry of Health and Consumption

Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs / National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work
Among others, the Institute has the function to technically support and collaborate with the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate in carrying out its supervision and control duties, as envisaged in article 9 of the Prevention of Risks at Work Act, within the context of the public administrations. It furthermore acts as a National Centre of Reference in relations with the European Union institutions, thus ensuring the coordination and transmission of information at a national level, particularly with respect to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and its network

Prevencion Integral

Sociedad Española de Medicina y Seguridad del Trabajo

Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés

Societat Catalana de Seguretat i Medicina de Treball

Spanish Workplace Health Promotion Forum Project
The mission of this future forum will be to develop the capacity to act on workplace health promotion at national level among relevant stakeholders and to foster partnership among them. As this capacity needs of strong leadership based on knowledge, scientific evidence and financial resources, this forum will try to achieve the following objectives: - To promote exchange of information, knowledge and expertise in order to increase commitment and competence of relevant stakeholders (mainly the ones who develop their function at company level) - To make available Models of Good Practice. - To provide a space for communication - To promote collaboration in developing WHP joint initiatives using funding opportunities given by national or European grants. - To transfer methods of WHP

Unión General de Trabajadores
Workhealth related section on the website of the trade Union

Sweden

National Institute for Working Life (NIWL)
By gathering together relevant national stakeholders in workplace health promotion, the forum wants to identify, strengthen and disseminate good workplace health practices in Sweden. Also, the aim is to facilitate and strengthen the communication and co-operation between the European network (ENWHP) and the national and regional networks in Sweden.

Swedish National Institute of Public Health (NIPH)
The Swedish National Institute of Public Health (SNIPH) was established in 1992. It is a state agency under the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. As of 1 July 2001, the National Institute of Public Health has a new, more clearly defined role in Sweden?s public health efforts. Most of the practical public health work in Sweden is carried out by local authorities and county councils.

Switzerland

Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz (Stiftung)
Deutsch / Français / Italiano

Institut Universitaire Romand de Santé au Travail

Nationale Tagung für betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung 2007
"40 plus - Gesundheit und Erfahrung als betriebliches Potenzial" - "40 plus - Santé et expérience le potentiel de l'entreprise"

quint-essenz
Planung und Durchführung von Präventions- und Geundheitsförderungs-Projekten / Planification et réalisation de projets en promotion de la santé et en prévention / Pianificazione e realizzazione di progetti nei settori della prevenzione e della promozione della salute

Schweizerische Unfallversicherungsanstalt (SUVA)
Deutsch / Français / Italiano

Swiss Association for Workplace Health Promotion
? Building of a supportive structure for the development, dissemination and implementation of WHP as an enterprise strategy with examples of good practice. ? Promoting WHP through its health and economic benefits by models of good practise ? Dissemination of results of WHP research into practice ? Exchange of opinions and experiences of WHP

Swiss Health Observatory
English / Deutsch / Français / Italiano

United Kingdom

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
(former: Health Development Agency)

Health Promotion Agency

National Employment and Health Innovations Network
1) To provide opportunities to share good practice and innovation in promoting health and tackling ill-health in the workplace; and reducing health inequalities through creating employment opportunities.
2) To support the implementation of innovative projects and programmes by designing learning opportunities around key themes linking their work to Government policy objectives in employment, regeneration, reduction of health inequalities and social inclusion.
3) To support the dissemination of proven innovation and good practice and its integration into the mainstream modernisation agenda.

USA

Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute (IRSST)
The Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute (IRSST), located in Montreal (QC), Canada, carries out scientific activities concentrated in seven research fields: accidents, chemical substances and biological agents, musculoskeletal disorders, noise and vibration, protective equipment, occupational rehabilitation, safety of industrial tools, machines and processes. More information about the Institute and its research activities, as well as about 1000 research reports are available for free download.