Conference Programme

Tuesday May 8, 2001
12:00 Registration
13:00 General Meeting ENOS members
16:00 Opening Conference by Verena Hufschmid and Fer Schuur
16:15 Health at Work -focusing on the need for dialoque, Keynote by Prof.Dr. J.A.M. Winnubst, University of Utrecht
The conference will open with a lecture by the leading expert in this field, Prof.Dr. J.A.M. Winnubst, who will discuss the wider concept of Health at Work in the light of current thinking and research. He will give an overview of the conference and the connection between the lectures and workshops. In the following two days there will be parallel workshops, giving delegates plenty of opportunity to discuss the latest ideas on what is now a highly topical subject.
17:00 Networking, aperitif and dinner

Wednesday May 9, 2001
09:00 Workshops
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Workshops
12:20 Lunch
13:40 Workshops
14:30 Coffee break
14:50 Workshops
16:00 Visit Madurodam/ free evening

Thursday May 10, 2001
09:00 Workshops
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Workshops
12:20 Lunch
13:30 Workshops
14:20 Coffee break
14:45 Workshop
15:00 Guided tour and dinner in "De Tweede Kamer" (The Dutch Parliament)

Friday May 11, 2001
09:30 To round off the previous days' focus on the theory and practice of Health at Work- focusing on the need for dialoque, you are offered the opportunity to put into practice the theme of this conference. There will be an excursion to N.V. PWN Waterleidingbedrijven in Heemskerk.

Summary

This year ENOS, the European Network on Ocuupational Social Work was celebrating the tenth anniversary. ENOS was established in the Netherlands in September 1990. The goals and objectives of ENOS are the exchange of knowledge, skills and expertises between occupational social workers. Therefore a European conference is regularly organised. At ENOS conferences occupational social workers have the opportunity to meet European colleagues in an up-to-date programme. After ENOS was established, conferences were held successively in the following countries: Portugal, Swtizerland, Greece, France, Sweden and Ireland.

The eighth ENOS conference was held in Hotel Atlantic, Den Haag (The Haque), the Netherlands with the theme: HEALTH AT WORK- focusing on the need for dialoque.

HEALTH AT WORK can be defined as the balance between the oprganisation's economic and social objectives. (Cox and other 1990). Our economy depends on the work and achievements of healthy people within the organisation. Bad management can lead to an unhealthy working environment.
Research shows that dialoque, in all its various forms, plays a key role in HEALTH AT WORK. Dialoque within the organisation is, therefore, essential.

The occupational social workers are the professionals who should be leading this dialoque. They have a keen eye for factors that can improve or impede the maintenance of healthy working conditions for employees. These factors can lie in (a) the structure of the organisation or (b) in the employee. It is the (c) occupational social worker's responsibility to identify these factors and deal with them in a professional manner.

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