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Mr.
Jukka Takala
Director
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Bilbao, Spain

Dear Mr. Takala,

The European Weeks for Safety and Health at Work are very important for the dissemination of the workers' safe conduct. I think that also the 2006 Week called "Young Workers - Safe Start" is of similar importance.

In connection with that widely discussed issue, I would like to mention that we should be interested, at least to a similar degree, in the problems of another group, those aged 50+.

The issues of long-term work and the biological changes effecting the employees are related to old age, and that is well known to the Agency. We have more and more experience in that area, but we are still poorly protected against occupational diseases and limitations of our psychomotor effectiveness.

One does not have to fly by plane to know that landing is the most dangerous stage of each flight. For that reason, writing on my own behalf and in the name of experts from our circles, I would like to suggest that one of the future Weeks should concern older workers. Being young is always fashionable, but nature always takes its course. How about:
SENIOR WORKERS - SAFE LANDING

Our Journal's graphic artist has travestied the poster that promotes this year's Week. In the event that our proposal has been accepted, the "new" poster would certainly be useful.

Best regards,

Jerzy Knyziak
Editor-in-Chief

PS Let me mention that the ATEST - Ochrona Pracy (ATEST - Labour Protection) is a monthly with a 59-year long tradition, reaching out to the largest group of Polish subscribers, the labour protection specialists.