Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Baltic Sea Network on Occupational Health and Safety
Venue: Conference Hall, Tartu University Library
Address: 1 Street W. Struve, Tartu 50411, Estonia
Host: Department of Public Health, University of Tartu
Dates: 30 September - 1 October 2010
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Scope and purpose of the Meeting
The Baltic Sea Annual Meeting serves as the regular forum for exchange of information, experiences and opportunities for collaboration among the occupational health and safety institutions in the ten BSN countries. At the same time, activities carried out within the NDPHS framework are reported including development and registering of occupational injuries, occupational diseases & work-related diseases in the health care sector. The activities for the next year and longer-term work programme are planned both for BSN and NDPHS collaboration.
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Miniseminar: Donation of copies of SJWEH to Tartu University Library
Chairs: Suvi Lehtinen, Eda Merisalu
9.00 Words of welcome
Dean/ Vice Dean Medical Faculty, University of Tartu
9.10-9.30 Estonian-Finnish collaboration in occupational health and safety during the past 35 years
Professor Jorma Rantanen
9.30-9.50 Challenges in OH&S in Estonia
Professor Hubert Kahn
9.50-10.10 From Gapminder to Ushahidi - a role for cognitive surplus
Professor Harri Vainio
10.10-10.20 Donation of copies of SJWEH to Tartu University Library
Professor Sven Hernberg
10.30-11.00 Coffee break & Registration
Plenary session I: Occupational Health of Health Care Workers
Chairs: Harri Vainio, Eda Merisalu
11.00–11.15 Opening of the Meeting
Introduction of participants
11.15–11.35 Health Care Workers in Europe and WHO Programmes
Dr. Rokho Kim, WHO Regional Office for Europe
11.35–11.55 ILO Programmes and Activities in the Health Care Sector
Mr. Wiking Husberg and Mr. Marat Rudakov, The ILO Subregional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
11.55–12.15 EU Activities for HCWs
Mr. Tim Tregenza, Bilbao Agency
12.15–12.45 Discussion
12.45–14.00 Lunch & Posters
14.00–14.20 The Finnish activities and practices related to occupational health of HCWs
Dr. Marjukka Laine, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
14.20-14.35 Needlestick injuries in healthcare workers
Ms. Irma Nool, Health Board, Estonia
14.35-14.50 Title to be confirmed
Mr. Piotr Sakowski, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland
14.50-15.05 Situation for the Norwegian health care personnel as seen by the Labour Inspection
Axel Wannag, Directorate of Labour Inspection, Norway
15.05-15.20 Work stress and burnout among Estonian Health Care Workers
Eda Merisalu, Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Estonia
15.20-15.35 Results of survey: Working conditions and risks in Latvia 2009-2010 regarding health care workers as compared with data from 2006
Ivars Vanadzins, Institute of Occupational safety and Environmental health
Riga Stradins University
15.35–16.00 Discussion
16.00–16.20 Coffee/tea break
Plenary Session II: Reporting 2010 activities
16.20–16.50 Development of OH&S in Estonia
Rauno Piirsalu, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia
16.50–17.15 Discussion
19.00 Dinner
Friday, 1 October 2010
Session III: Reporting 2010 activities – Country reports
Chairs: Suvi Lehtinen, Eda Merisalu
Situation reports from the countries / 15 minutes each country
Describing the activities/developments in the countries as regards the
§ implementation of NDPHS OH&S strategy
§ taking into account the conclusions of the Country Profile prepared earlier within the Baltic Sea Network and NDPHS activity (http://www.ndphs.org/?database,view,paper,22)
§ informing about various internationally-funded projects
plans for the forthcoming years
09.00-09.15 Country report: Finland
09.15–09.30 Country report: Latvia
09.30–09.45 Country report: Lithuania
09.45-10.00 Country report: Norway
10.00-10.30 Coffee/tea break
10.30-10.45 Country report: Poland
10.45–11.00 Country report: Russia
11.00-11.15 Country report: Sweden
11.15-12.00 Discussion on the experiences and perspectives for future work
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Session IV: Work Plans for 2011
13.00–14.30 BSN and NDPHS work plans 2011
Activities planned for 2011
Proposals for activities from the countries
Ongoing multi-country projects
All participants contribute to interactive planning session
14.30–15.30 Plenary discussion on the plans and commitments of the institutions
15.30–16.00 Next BSN Annual Meeting
Summary and closing