The Federation of Trade Unions of Macedonia and the Working Conditions, Health and Safety Unit of the ETUI are organizing Regional Occupational Health and Safety Forum on 4th and 5th March in Skopje.
The Forum was attended by representatives of the social partners in the country, Trade Unions, Employers' Organization, Government, Labor Inspectorate, relevant OHS institutions, students from the Law Faculty and Trade Union experts from 7 countries in the Region (N.Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece).
The Forum gave an great opportunity for the students to hear about TU activities from the country and the region in the area of OHS. This Forum also discussed latest OHS developments, tackling fundamental aspects and issues for the prevention in the health and safety at work with special attention on the changing characters of hazards at the workplaces. As most important issue for the Forum was the creation of TU strategies in OHS, particularly in organizing and supporting workers' health and safety, through education and training. The regional cooperation also contributes for relevant implementation of national and TU strategies for OHS.
The participants of the Forum, visited the Copmany Cementarnica Usje Titan, where they had the opportunity to see the implementation of OHS measures on national level, as well as to have discussions with TU representatives and the management of the company.
Organizing such Regional OHS Forums and events in cooperation with the European partners is a continiuos activity of CCM in direction of improvement of workers' health and safety.
*** The European Trade Union Institute is the independent training center of the European Trade Union Confederation. The ETUI works for the workers' interests at European level to strenghten the social dimension of the European Union.
