Latvian Safety Links

by Gundars Kaupins, Boise State University

Being Updated March 2007-December  2007

The purpose of this link page is to provide useful business links associated with Latvia.  There is no commercial purpose or personal financial gain from this link page.  Most links include a title, languages used, services, and a brief description of the mission and purpose of the site.  Services include search engines, blogs, on-line polls, site of origin (e.g., .lv, .com, .net) and transactions.  Transactions could be nonfinancial (e.g., registration) to financial (e.g., payment of fees) Almost every brief description is a direct quote from the link.  Most of these direct quotes will refer to either the mission or objectives of the link.

 

Baltic Sea Network on Occupational Health and Safety (E, Est) "The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health is a research and specialist organization in the sector of occupational health and safety. Connections are with Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Northwest Russia, Norway and Poland."

European Agency for Safety at Work (E) "The Agency has entered into bilateral arrangements with many third countries and international organizations to share information in the field of safety and health at work. The result of this co-operation can be accessed online via the Agency’s websites and the joint websites established by its network partners. In this section we present an overview of our growing international safety and health network. Site provides many legal, health, and other links."

Latvian Pollution Prevention Center (Lv, E) "The Latvian Pollution Prevention Center (LPPC), as an independent, non-profit organization (NGO) educates, promotes and introduces advanced waste minimization, cleaner production programs and environmental management systems in manufacturing plants, designed to generate measurable environmental and economic benefits, hence sustaining the overall development of Latvian industry."

Occupational Safety and Health in Latvia  (Lv, E) "Health and safety issues, monitoring of the workplace, occupational health services, training, chemical safety data sheets, structures with dealing with occupational health and environmental health."

RMIS Resource Library (E) Comprehensive links on safety, security, and training across countries.

Language Key

(E) English
(Lv) Latvian
(Lt) Lithuanian
(Est) Estonian
(R) Russian
(G) German
(F) French
(S) Swedish
(P) Polish
other languages are fully spelled out

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