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International Network on the Prevention of Accidents Trauma at Work

WORKINGONSAFETY.NET is an international network of decision-makers, researchers and professionals responsible for the prevention of accidents and trauma at work and supported by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. WORKINGONSAFETY.NET wants to bring accident prevention experts together and to facilitate exchange of information and experience between different countries and sectors. WORKINGONSAFETY.NET consists of an Internet platform including a who-is-who and a bi-annual conference.

WORKINGONSAFETY.NET Internet platform offers the following opportunities:
· Login;
· Find persons;
· Find documents;
·Links;
· Debate.


As an added benefit WORKINGONSAFETY.NET offers direct access to a virtual journal, the Safety Science Monitor chaired by Tore L. Larsson and edited by an editorial board.
The International WORKINGONSAFETY.NET Conference gives the possibility to meet together and to obtain an overview of the current development in the prevention of accidents and trauma at work on international level. The 2nd International WORKINGONSAFETY.NET Conference for the prevention of accidents and trauma at work takes place from 31 August - September 2004 in Dresden, Germany. This conference is a follow up of the Inaugural Conference for the prevention of accidents and trauma at work, 3-6 September 2002 in Elsinore under the Danish Presidency.


Login in the who-is-who of WORKINGONSAFETY.NET

WORKINGONSAFETY.NET offers you the opportunity of setting up your own personal site in a who-is-who of experts for prevention of accidents and trauma at work. Joining and searching in the who-is-who is free of charge. The personal site covers your personal data and should enclose everything that could be of interest to your colleagues. Don’t forget to fill in your specialities in accident prevention. On your personal site you can also put documents that are unpublished up to now. If you want to refer to documents that have been already published, please give a short summary and refer to the publication list in the who-is-who. Put your picture in, that makes you visible.
You will be the only one who can update your personal site. But everybody can take a look.


Find persons in WORKINGONSAFETY.NET

The first aim of WORKINGONSAFETY.NET is to bring experts together from all over the world, who are dealing with prevention of accidents and trauma at work. In the who-is-who you willfindexperts in accident prevention from all over the world. Furthermore the who-is-who of WORKINGONSAFETY.NET offers you the opportunity of setting up your own personal site (Login). Both services are free of charge.


Find documents in WORKINGONSAFETY.NET

You can look for documents referring to prevention of accidents and trauma at work that are unpublished up to now. Furthermore WORKINGONSAFETY.NET offers you the opportunity of putting your own documents on the website (Login). If you want to publish articles in the virtual journal Safety Science Monitor please send your article to the chair of the Safety Science Monitor Tore L Larsson tore.larsson@syd.kth.se or tore.larsson@afa.se.


Debate

Discussing specific issues of prevention of accidents and trauma at work is an important part of developing a prevention culture. You can take part in an ongoing debate or start one yourself. This debate will contribute to the discussion before and after the conferences.


The Monitor

The virtual journalSafety Science Monitor is an added benefit to WORKINGONSAFETY.NET. The Safety Science Monitor is chaired by Tore L Larsson and edited by an editorial board. If you want to publish in this virtual journal please send your article to Tore L Larsson,tore.larsson@syd.kth.se or tore.larsson@afa.se.

Disclaimer

Data protection and use of personal information

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  • The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work offers the possibility to subscribe to "OSHMail". The Agency will not send you "OSHMail" unless you specifically agree to be contacted for such purpose at the time you submit your information on the site, or at later time if you sign up specifically to receive "OSHMail".

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Intellectual Property

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Contributions to WORKINGONSAFETY.NET

Where you are invited to submit any contribution to WORKINGONSAFETY.NET (including any text, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant WORKINGONSAFETY.NET a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the Privacy Policy of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.

Further to the above, by submitting your contribution to WORKINGONSAFETY.NET, you:
warrant that your contribution;

  • is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to WORKINGONSAFETY.NET for all the purposes specified above;
  • is not defamatory; and
  • does not infringe any law; and
  • indemnifies the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
  • waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on WORKINGONSAFETY.NET and the purposes specified above.

House Rules for WORKINGONSAFETY.NET Debate

You agree to use WORKINGONSAFETY.NET Debate in accordance with the following House Rules:

About your posts:

  • The subject of the contributions should be on the prevention of accidents and trauma at work;
  • Contributions must be civil and tasteful;
  • No rude or abusive behaviour (flaming or trolling)- postings must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or posted with the intention of causing trouble;
  • Unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable;
  • Be patient - users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the debate;
  • No spamming - don't cross post your messages to more than one discussion;
  • No advertising;
  • Posts containing languages other than English may be removed;
  • No impersonation. Adopting an inappropriate user name (one that is vulgar, offensive, etc.) is also unacceptable;

About the law

  • You may not post any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in WORKINGONSAFETY.NET Debate. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio. Posting a message with the intention of committing an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
  • You agree to only post materials to which you have the copyright or other permission to distribute electronically. You may not violate, plagiarise, or infringe on the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.

If you breach these Terms of Use

  • If you fail to abide by these terms, you will be formally warned by email. This warning may also include a temporary suspension of your ability to participate in WORKINGONSAFETY.NET Debate.
  • If after this warning you continue to breach these terms, you will be prohibited from using WorkingonSafety.net Debate for an extended period of time.
  • The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work reserves the right to delete any posting, at any time, for any reason.