ICOH NEWSLETTER

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ICOH newsletter - Volume II - Number I - April 2004 - ISSN 1795-0260 Download (PDF, 306 kb)

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ICOH newsletter - Volume I - Number I - Download (PDF, 422 kb)

The ICOH Newsletter revitalized

Still some years ago, the ICOH used to publish a Quarterly Newsletter. The publishing was interrupted, however, because of financial and editorial reasons. Meanwhile, various other forms of publishing have been discussed. These have not been realized in practice though. It seems that various organizations and associations need an information channel of their own in order to keep their members abreast with the developments in the activities of the organization. A newsletter is a good way of meeting the membership’s information needs concerning the ICOH organization, on the one hand, and the substantive OH&S information needs, on the other hand.

The previous ICOH President and the ICOH Board (September – February 2003) established Task Forces clarifying the roles and goals of both the ICOH Newsletter and the ICOH website. On the basis of the previous Newsletter Task Group (Linneéa Lillienberg, Frank Rose, Tee Guidotti, Tar Ching Aw) the new Information Task Group (Tar Ching Aw, Sergio Iavicoli, Rene Mendes, Louis Patry, Ken Takahashi, and myself) started planning a regularly published ICOH Newsletter that would be mailed to each ICOH member. The new Information task Group is the same as the Editorial Board of this Newsletter. Some modifications have also been made to the plans, as we know that many members do not have a regular Internet access yet. Also, the printed copy of a newsletter is handier in many instances. Therefore, the paper copy format was thought to be the best solution, at least to start with.

Those of you who do not wish to receive a newsletter by mail, but only to read it on the ICOH website, may fill in a feedback form and send it to us at www.ttl.fi/icohnewsletter . If we do not receive a feedback form, we will assume that you wish to receive the Newsletter by mail also in the future. It is, therefore, important that ICOH has your correct mailing address on its membership list. If you notice errors in your address, please send an e-mail to Mr. Carlo Petyx in the ICOH Secretariat: carlopetyx@libero.it.

For financial reasons, and also because we want to have enough material for each issue, we have decided that the Newsletter will come out three times a year. The idea is that you will hear the decisions and developments made by the Officers, the Board and the Various Task Groups. In addition, all Scientific Committee Chairs and Secretaries are encouraged to submit brief articles, news, and other information on various matters to be shared through the Newsletter. We also plan to invite one or two leading articles on topical themes in each issue of the Newsletter. In this issue we discuss the fatalities related to occupational factors. We also pay tribute to the work of the late Professor Antonio Grieco by publishing his article on the history of ICOH.

It is important that all of us can contribute to sharing important information to all members of ICOH in each corner of the world. This will make us strong!

I would like to thank the members of the Editorial Board of the Newsletter already now for their commitment. We on the Editorial Board look forward to working with all of you, 1700 members of ICOH

Suvi Lehtinen

Editor