The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has just announced the winner of the photography competition focussing on safety and health at work. Christopher Azzopardi from Malta was awarded with the 1st prize for his photograph entitled “Beekeeper” at the European Summit on Risk Assessment and SMEs in Bilbao, the closing event of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign.

The competition - entitled What’s your image of safety and health at work? - was an essential part of EU-OSHA’s Healthy Workplaces campaign to promote awareness of occupational safety and health throughout all Member States. This scheme encouraged European citizens to express themselves creatively and provide their own interpretations of safety and health in the workplace.

The photo competition was organised in the framework of the Agency’s Healthy Workplaces campaign on risk assessment. All photographers – professionals or amateurs – were invited to join the competition and submit their photographs between May 9th and August 15th 2009.

Christopher Azzopardi from Malta was awarded with the 1st prize for his photograph entitled “Beekeeper”. The second and third prize was handed to Eric Despujols from France (“Welder”) and Rodrigo Cabrita from Portugal (“A hard and complicated life”).The winners were announced at the European Summit on Risk Assessment and SMEs held in Bilbao, the closing event of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign.

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. Creativity is one of the pillars of this campaign, which has recently rewarded the best documentary on word-related topics