The sharing of information is thus very important. People can share and exchange both ideas and experiences so as to develop new ideas and to solve existing problems, including occupational health and safety issues. It should be remembered that keeping what one has to oneself sometimes is not as useful as that possession would be if it were shared with others. There is much occupational health and safety information to share with one another. This body of information includes legislation, technical materials, chemical data sheets, research results, reports, accident statistics and the like.
Good information can do wonders if it is accessible and utilized properly.
Correspondingly, wrong information can be damaging. Information networking, which is addressed in this issue of the Newsletter, no doubt is crucial. It will open the gates to the sharing ideas and experiences and will help us all to solve problems in this field of occupational health and safety. It will even enable us to eliminate problems which we may have been struggling with although solutions have already been found elsewhere. The time has come for all of us to strengthen our collaboration and ties, starting at the national level and then in the sub-region, regionally and internationally, by information networking.