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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 kTransferabilityThis initiative could be applied in other higher education courses, in engineeringschools and universities. It could be applied to students studying subjects other thanchemical engineering.Contact details for further informationMme Isabelle MinaberryIngénieur ConseilCRAM de Bretagne - Département des Risques professionnelsTél: 02 99 26 74 62Email: isabelle.minaberry@cram-bretagne.frhttp://www.cram-bretagne.fr/cram_bretagne/More information : Travail et Sécurité, N° 09-05, p. 20-22Pictures : ©Yves Cousson / INRS3.13.Ar c h i t e c t u r a l a n d e n g i n e e r i n g s t u d e n t sd e s i g n p r o j e c t s t o g e t h e r , Fr a n c eINRSKey points:OO multinational students promote multinational learning;OO promotes working together and interdisciplinary collaboration betweenarchitectural and engineering students;OO promotes taking account of OSH at the design stage;OO students design own work area;OO full-scale mock-ups are entered into a competition; andOO students are motivated through a competition.Key elements:OO architects and engineering;OO practical work;OO partnership; andOO real work situations.IntroductionIn 2007, for the third consecutive year, architectural and engineering students werebrought together to work for two weeks on the design and production of modelsof work areas, taking into account comfort, health and occupational risk prevention.In 2007, for the first time since it started, the educational experience was openedto Swedish, Romanian and Brazilian students. As in previous years, and despite thelinguistic challenges, the projects showed that the programme had successfully92
Mainstreaming occupational safety and health into university educationpromoted cooperation between student architects and engineers to design workareas in which safety is factored into projects from the start.B a c k g r o u n dAs part of the initiatives over the years by French national research and safety instituteINRS to improve the incorporation of occupational risk prevention into the coursesprovided by schools of architectural, an innovative experiment was initiated. Theconcept is as follows: for two weeks, around twenty architectural and engineeringstudents, coming from two disciplines which have different cultures, work togetheron projects for the design of work areas that take into account comfort, health andoccupational risk prevention. These designs are then transformed into full-scale mockups,which are appraised by a jury consisting of representatives of the professions, theOHS organisations and enterprises.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 kAims and ObjectivesThe objectives of this initiative are to:OO raise architectural and engineering students’ awareness of occupational riskprevention and develop their OSH knowledge, especially regarding the design ofprojects for work areas;OO develop students’ ability to take account of health, comfort and occupational riskprevention in project designs for work areas from the very start of projects;OO develop students’ understanding and ability regarding interdisciplinary workingon projects in order to take into account health, comfort and occupational riskprevention; andOO show students that skills in factoring in occupational risks into projects in the fieldof design and work equipment are relevant to their career plans.S c o p eThis is a partnership project. The initiators, UTC de Compiègne and architectural schoolEcole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Clermont Ferrand (ENSACF) are working withINRS and the Auvergne regional health insurance fund (CRAM).The architectural and engineering students from the two schools take part in anexercise that is designed to lead them through a joint project for the design of workareas taking into account, from the outset, the concepts of health, comfort andoccupational risk prevention. This interdisciplinary approach aims at making futurearchitects and engineers who, in their professional lives, could be designing andbuilding factories and offices, aware of the importance of working together to reduce,as far upstream as possible, the risks to workers.Each year a specific work area is chosen. The first programme, in 2005, focused onhealthcare laboratories, while the following year the focus was on the meat industry.In 2007, the wood processing industry was chosen by the project partners.Taking the example of the topic for 2007, the wood processing industry, the focus ofthe exercise goes far beyond just looking at particular risks, such as machinery risks,which are obvious in the woodworking industry. The students were asked to considerwork situations as a whole: postures, product flows, movements, processes, lighting,chemical products, noise, dust, etc. Their proposals for improvements had to take intoaccount these numerous factors and assess their impact on work activity in general.93
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