A whole-school approach to OSH education

Introduction

The whole-school approach can be considered as the ‘Gold standard’ of mainstreaming OSH into education. Research conducted by the European Agency has come to the conclusion that approaches that cover various fields of action at schools are best suited the integration of safety, health and well-being into education programmes and for sustainably improving prevention culture.[1] Such holistic approaches include the different fields of actions of which mainstreaming actions can consist of: integrating OSH and risk education into school curricula; training of students, teachers and school management representatives; introducing risk management at school level;…