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ENWHP Newsletter-Summer 2024
Summer ENWHP Newsletter NOW AVAILABLE. It contains the latest news about the network and the work we are involved in. This includes exciting news about four ENWHP developments that taken together represent significant improvement in our service offer.
Do you work shifts? Then contribute your experience to help us research the health effects of shift work!
As you may already know, shift work can impact health extensively. Scientific how that shift workers face a higher risk of obesity, probably due to eating irregularly. We want to understand this effect better and make a difference for shift workers. This is what the SHIFT2HEALTH EU project is all about.
Across Europe, the SHIFT2HEALTH team is investigating the mechanisms driving overweight and obesity among shift workers. With this research, we aim to get a better understanding of the role of unhealthy eating habits. The next step: exploring innovative strategies for promoting healthier choices and finding solutions that make shift work safer for your health.
We can’t do this alone - WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Below, you find a survey. Please complete the survey and also share it with your shift working colleagues. By taking just 15 minutes to fill in your answers, you contribute significantly to our research.
The survey is available in 9 different languages, making it accessible to everyone. Choose the language that best suits you. Spread the word, share the link with your network and together we can make the shift!
Join us in shaping a healthier future for shift workers, by completing (or sharing) the 15-min survey via the following link: https://redcap.univie.ac.at/surveys/?s=C49CJ39HDNA4JC47
Click2Move in the European Researchers' Night
The European Researchers' Night is a Europe-wide public event, which displays the diversity of science and its impact on citizens' daily lives. This event aims to bring research and researchers closer to the public; promote excellent research projects across Europe and beyond; increase the interest of young people in science and research careers; and showcase
Click2Move participated in the European Researchers' Night 2023 that took place on Friday 29 September 2023, by presenting an informative video about the goal of the project and how it works. The video is shared on the European Researchers' Night YouTube channel.
We invite you to watch it.
Save the date!
EU closing event of the Erasmus+ program "Municipal Urban Cleaners on health and safety for better quality of life and wellbeing” will take place on Friday September 29th in Athens, Greece and will be also available online.
The Symposium will highlight the importance and necessity of multicomponent and integrated approaches for supporting the health and safety of employees during Public Health emergencies, as well as effective ways to promote the generation of behaviours, attitudes, and skills towards this perspective. It’s aimed to host policy makers, Municipalities, occupational physicians, adult trainers, employee representatives, academic institutions, and other relevant bodies across Europe. It will be an excellent opportunity to exchange views and share the knowledge that project partners have gained in this field, including the training tools they developed for the employees and now available for further exploitation in other European countries under specific guidance that will also be presented.
Further information on registration will be posted shortly here!
In Memoriam Horst Kloppenburg *17th November 1943 †15th August 2023
Horst Kloppenburg died on the 15th of August 2023 in his home city of Essen.
He was principal administrator in the European Commission (until 2014 known as the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO), and responsible and active in the field of health promotion. Health promotion and disease prevention are included within the public health strategies of the EU to improve the health status of populations or relevant sub-groups.
There have been many European policies in this field. Horst’s strength was to see that European policies can only successfully implemented by the creation of stable networks in which members can learn from and support each other. In his professional career he pushed forward the establishment of a number of Europe-wide networks. One of his children was the establishment of the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion in 1996.
WHP aims to introduce the ‘healthy organisation’ as an important priority on the agenda of all relevant stakeholders from the workplace and beyond. With Horst Kloppenburg we have lost a person who was an active driver in the field of health promotion!
This Photo shows him with the European members of the ENWHP and of WHO after the foundation in 1996. All members of the board of ENWHP mourn the passing of Horst Kloppenburg and are grateful for the boost and support that he gave to the health of workers throughout the EU.
Working for Mental Wellbeing
Working for Mental Wellbeing is a free hybrid event organised by ENWHP and hosted by INSST (Instituto Nacional de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo) in Barcelona.
Its main purpose is to reflect on best practice in relation to Workplace Mental Health Promotion and to discuss the work in this area in which ENWHP is currently involved. A key output will be to develop a ‘Barcelona Declaration on Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work,’ to which governmental bodies, business organisations, social partners and employers will be asked to commit.
The event will also provide an opportunity to help shape ENWHP going forward.
If you would like to attend in person (a limited number of places are available), please email info@enwhp.net
Online registration is open Here
Factors for reducing sedentary behaviours among home-office workers
Now available the results of the cross-cultural needs analysis on factors reducing sedentary behaviours among home-office workers from employees and employers perspectives.
Click here for more information.
Research Fellow in The Health & Occupation Research Network (THOR)
The University of Manchester is seeking a research fellow for The Health & Occupation Research Network (THOR) working closely with the academic and support staff, participating physicians and the funding bodies.
The Health & Occupation Research network (THOR) operates from the COEH at the University of Manchester to collect data on occupational disease in the UK and Ireland. This project, funded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Health and Safety Authority in Ireland, relies on more than 1000 specialists and occupational physicians who voluntarily report cases of occupational and work-related ill health.
Inclusion of safe and healthy environment in the ILO's framework of fundamental principles and rights at work
The International Labour Organization Conference #ILC2022 has formally approved the resolution on the inclusion of a safe and healthy working environment in the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work. Conventions Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) and the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187) will be considered as fundamental Conventions. Carmen Bueno @cbuenop has elaborated an information note in Spanish.
10th Healthy Workplace awards applications
The Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces opens the 10th healthy workplace awards applications.
Applications are open to ALL employer organisations (for profit and not-for-profit, local and international) in one of three categories:
+ Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs): with less than 500 employees who run exemplary programs.
+ Large Enterprises: with more than 500 employees who run exemplary programs at one local worksite.
+ Multi-national Enterprises: employers with employees in different countries who run exemplary programs across multiple worksite locations and countries.