The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is supporting, for the first time, the Healthy Workplaces Film Award for the best documentary on work-related topics. The award is endowed with € 8,000 and is presented at the 52nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK Leipzig).

Healthy Workplaces is the largest information campaign on occupational safety and health, running in all EU Member States and beyond to promote efficient risk management. Under the slogan “Healthy Workplaces Campaign. Good for you. Good for business”, more than 40 European multinationals, employers’ federations, NGOs and employees’ organisations help EU-OSHA to spread the message among workplaces and improve European workers’ conditions.

The film award honours a documentary film that focuses on the human being in a changing world of work: economic transition, globalization, migrations... The films nominated for the Healthy Workplaces Film Award are picked from the approximately 1800 documentaries submitted to DOK Leipzig every year. The festival stands for films dedicated to peace and the dignity of mankind, states festival director, Claas Danielsen.

DOK Leipzig, the largest German and second largest European documentary film festival will start its 52nd issue with an exciting programme and attractive offers in its individual sections. True to its tradition as the “Window to the World“, the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film again presents the best and latest animated and documentary films from more than 50 countries to its audience between October 26 and November 1, 2009. The award ceremony takes place on 31 October 2009 in Leipzig,

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work was set up by the European Union to help meet the information needs in the field of occupational safety and health. Based in Bilbao, Spain, the Agency aims to improve the lives of people at work by stimulating the flow of technical, scientific and economic information between all those involved in occupational safety and health issues.