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Health & Safety & Health Promotion
events – Sept – Dec 2005
Health & Safety Authority
Nationwide Information Seminars on New Safety, Health and
Welfare at Work Act 2005.
The seminars will bring you up to date with the changes being
introduced by the new legislation and the stages involved
in implementing the Act. The seminars will be presented by
senior inspectors of the Health and Safety Authority and all
attendees will receive a detailed resource pack. For further
information, email events@hsa.ie
Mon. 29th Aug (evening) Castlebar
Tues. 30th Aug (day) Galway
Sligo
Tues. 30th Aug. (evening) Carrick on Shannon
Wed. 31st Aug (day) Ennis
Longford
Wed. 31st Aug (evening) Roscommon
Thurs. 1st Sept. (day) Athlone
If you own or manage a micro enterprise (employing less than
10 people), or you are self employed or a farmer, then watch
out for special countrywide Health and Safety for Micro Enterprises
workshops which are due to begin in late 2005
Irish Cancer Society
October - Breast Cancer Awareness Month
w/c Monday 7th November - Men's Cancer Action Week
Contact Tara Droog (tdroog@irishcancer.ie)
re: breast awareness literature and Amanda Cushway (acushway@irishcancer.ie)
re: men's cancer literature
See www.cancer.ie
for further information.
Aware
Starting on Monday 12th September annual Depression Awareness
Week Nationwide (DAWN). The theme this year is ‘depression
recognition’, and some of the focus will also be on
the stigma which surrounds depression.
Contact Sandra Hogan, Public Relations Officer, Aware, 72
Lwr Leeson St, D2.
tel: 01 661 7211; fax: 01 661 7217; email: sandra.hogan@aware.ie
Arthritis Ireland
October (date to be confirmed), Information & Awareness
Day, Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill
Speakers, including Prof Tim O'Brien, UCHG, Prof Frank Barry,
from the new REMIDI department in NUIG that researches new
treatments for Arthritis, Dr. Robert Coughlan, Consultant
Rheumatologist and Surgeon Mr. Bill Curtin from Merlin Park.
Contact Ray O'Connor, Local Chairman, Arthritis Ireland, threadneedle@hotmail.com
Breastfeeding Week
1st – 7th October
Breastfeeding at Work guidelines and other information on
breastfeeding available from Health Promotion services, HSE-West
091 – 548321 / 2
Diabetes Federation
8th October – Type II Diabetes Workshop, Traveller’s
Friend Hotel, Castlebar, Co. Mayo. Contact: May McConnell,
Sligo Office: 071-9146001 |
