Factsheet 52 - Mainstreaming occupational safety and health into education
The European Union’s strategy on health and safety at work has identified education and the prevention culture as key factors for maintaining and improving the quality of work. Supporting this strategy the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has published a report, Mainstreaming occupational safety and health into education: Good practice in school and vocational education, which provides a comprehensive overview of good practice examples throughout Europe and outlines steps toward a systematic strategy to integrate occupational safety and health (OSH) into education and training. This factsheet summarises the report.
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European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
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07.05.2004
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Organisations deal with OSH in different ways: some organisations have little expertise in OSH and react to problems such as occupational accidents, work-related diseases and absenteeism in an ad hoc way, while others strive to manage OSH more systematically, and even proactively, by implementing OSH into the organisation’s overall management. This report aims to provide evidence and information on how OSH can be incorporated into general management and business, thereby achieving safer and healthier working environments, and better general organisational performance.
This report comprises three main parts, each with a different specific focus: (1) a literature review, (2) an overview of related policies, and (3) a report of case studies and good practice. Readers should refer to the appropriate sections of the report for more detailed discussions and further information about each area.
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) remain the most common occupational disease in the European Union and workers in all sectors and occupations can be affected. Recent figures, for example from Austria, Germany or France, also demonstrate an increasing impact of musculoskeletal disorders on costs. This latest report, following on from the Agency’s previous research, aims to give an updated overview of the current European situation as regards musculoskeletal disorders, the trends over the years since the first campaign in 2000, and a detailed insight into the causes and circumstances behind MSDs. The report highlights the main issues and aims to provide a well-founded evidence base, helping policy makers, actors at enterprise and sector level, as well as researchers and those who record, prevent and compensate occupational diseases in the European Union to set the agenda for the next years.
Future engineers, architects, medical professionals and business administrators
and managers will all need to take account of OSH in aspects in their working lives.
This report presents a variety of cases concerning how OSH has been included
in university-level education. Of most interest were examples where OSH was
embedded in the programme of other undergraduate studies, such as a general
engineering undergraduate course or a business studies course. However, few
examples were found where OSH/risk education had been truly embedded within
the curriculum of individual courses.
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