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Mainstreaming occupational safety and health into university educationE u r o p e a n Ag e n c y f o r Sa f e t y a n d He a l t h a t Wo r kCONTENTS4. Snapshots.........................................................................1354.1 Improving overall occupational health and safety at university campusincluding safety awareness of students, Denmark. .......................................... 1364.2 Risk in technical systems, Sweden ........................................................ 1364.3 Risk assessment for work stress, UK ....................................................... 1374.4 Professional Studies in Electronic Engineering and Electronic and Computer Engineering, Ireland .. 1374.5 E-Learning for medical students, Czech Republic. ........................................... 1384.6 Preparing new pharmaceutical workers: in-house and with education establishments, Latvia. .... 1394.7 Safe start in the pharmaceutical sector, Poland ............................................. 1404.8 Occupational safety and ergonomics in academic education in Poland ......................... 1414.9 Tomorrow’s doctors – putting OSH on the graduate medical syllabus, UK ...................... 1424.10 A speaker’s invitation, UK. ............................................................... 1434.11 An OSH authority’s activities to mainstream OSH into third-level education, Ireland. ............. 1444.12 Partnership to develop a business course, USA. ............................................. 1455. Discussion and conclusions ..........................................................147References and further information ..................................................160Acknowledgements ................................................................162Annex 1. Overview table of the cases .................................................164Annex 2. Conclusions of the meeting of the EU-OSHA Mainstreaming OSH intoeducation expert group, held 26-27 March 2008, Bilbao .................................169Annex 3. Success factors from some previous EU-OSHA reports on OSH andeducation and training young people about OSH .......................................1704
Mainstreaming occupational safety and health into university educationF o r e w o r dMainstreaming occupational safety and health (OSH)into the education of children and young people has animportant part to play in developing and improving safetycultures in the workplace. This is recognised in EuropeanCommunity strategy on occupational health and safety andin the OSH strategies of the Member States.In particular, there has been increasing recognition thatrisk education should form part of the training for thoseentering manual vocational trades and there has been agreat deal of activity to embed it into vocational coursesand develop suitable, participative learning methods andresources.However, professionals entering the workforce also needrisk education in order to develop the necessary OSHskills, knowledge and attitudes. This need is more evidentfor architects and civil engineers who will have legalduties regarding the design, planning and executionof construction projects. But if OSH is truly to becomean integral part of business management in all sizes oforganisations, then all future managers and professionals need relevant risk education,not just those who will work in high risk sectors. Health professionals also need toenter their careers having a clear understanding of occupational health.As there has been less activity regarding risk education to date at university-level; andbecause it presents some special challenges, related to the autonomy of universitiesand the types of teaching methods traditionally used, the sharing of experiences andresources at the university-level is particularly important. It is important to be awareof the challenges and to identify what seem to be the more successful approachesthat can be taken. I hope that this report, which presents a variety of cases from theMember States and beyond, will contribute to this process and provide practicalsupport to all those working on this issue, whether in the field of OSH or the field ofeducation.E u r o p e a n Ag e n c y f o r Sa f e t y a n d He a l t h a t Wo r kJukka TakalaDirectorEuropean Agency for Safety and Health at WorkJanuary 20105
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