SAF€RA’s Covid-19 webinar series

The Covid-19 pandemic is having major impacts on health and safety at work, on workplaces, on employment. There are many implications for our professional activities and the management and communication of risk.

SAF€RA has decided to organize a series of webinars where experts from different countries (institutes and companies) make brief presentations on their problems, strategies and emerging good practices relating to impacts on safety at work. There will be many challenges over the next weeks and months as countries and companies develop their deconfinement plans and try to strike the balance between restarting economic activity and limiting health and safety impacts.

The second webinar in the series was organized on May 27^th 2020, with a presentation on Nano-sized materials in antimicrobial protective clothing by Prof. Tung Pham from the Research Institute of Textile Chemistry and Textile Physics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). The presentation slides are available in PDF format.

A recording of the webinar can be viewed below (duration: 45 minutes). It’s also available on SAF€RA’s YouTube channel.

The first webinar in the series was organized on April 29^th 2020 and included two short presentations:

Hazards and Measures for COVID-19 in the energy sector
Olga Aneziris, Demokritos, Greece
Slides in PDF
Novel procedure for “remote” verification and certification of repaired/modified pressure equipment
Paolo Bragatto, INAIL, Italy
Slides in PDF

A recording of the webinar can be viewed below (duration: 60 minutes). It’s also available on SAF€RA’s YouTube channel.

SAF€RA supports open access to the results of scientific research. Presentation slides and video materials are disseminated following the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY), meaning that you are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially) the material, as long as you attribute the material (cite the author) according to standard scientific conventions.

Other resources

You may be interested in the following sources of further information on Covid-19 and health and safety at work:

A series of webinars on Covid-19 issues for occupational safety and health professionals organized by IOSH.
Resources on Covid-19 in the workplace from EU-OSHA.
A series of webinars and podcasts on Covid-19 from the Society for Risk Analysis.
Recording from an OECD NEA workshop on how the nuclear sector is responding to the human and organisational challenges arising from the Covid‑19 pandemic.