NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

who on many occasions have to first face this
type of problem and many times we have no
resources to work with this.
This is such that the graduate schools of
Health and Occupational Safety, very few have
courses that focus in the area of psychosocial
risks. I believe that this is an area that
from the perspective of occupational health
needs urgently a revision, including a
curricular level in the graduate schools of
Health and Occupational Safety.
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Lastly one area that has not been attended
to is the area of curriculum in the schools.
Recently we were working with the development
of a curriculum focused in the occupational
health and safety for pre-school education. And
why for pre-school education if the children
are not working? Our values start from that
age. And that is the best moment that we have
to teach the human being, in this case the
children about values and about respecting
rules, laws that we have about occupational
health and safety. In the literature we find
practically nothing focused on this area.