Forum 8 - Learning about occupational safety and health

Mainstreaming occupational safety and health into university education

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.

Factsheet 91 - Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming OSH into university education — Summary of a Report

Future engineers, architects, medical professionals and business administrators and managers will all need to take account of occupational safety and health (OSH) aspects in their working lives. This report and the cases in it demonstrate that there are more challenges to integrating OSH into university-level education compared with other levels of education. However, the cases also show that steps are being taken to mainstream OSH into university education in a variety of disciplines and in a variety of ways.

OSH in the school curriculum: requirements and activities in the EU Member States

To underpin occupational safety and health (OSH) education in schools and colleges it is necessary to formalise it in curriculum requirements. This report reviews how the Member States are including OSH and risk education in their national curricula. The report shows that there is considerable progress and activity in this respect at both primary and secondary education levels in terms of both implemented and planned actions in the Member States. The report also identifies some success factors for mainstreaming OSH into education curricula.