Initial Vocational Education and Training
Raise Your Hand
Everyday there are more than 350,000 workers on the job in British Columbia. They might be changing the oil in deep-fryers, planting trees in the back woods, or cleaning up debris around construction sites. While the jobs they do may differ, young workers all have one thing in common ― they are at high risk of getting injured at work.
This campaign includes a web site, live events, and social media components like links to the "raise Your Hand" Facebook page and Twitter account.
It encourages young workers to be pro-active about their own workplace safety.
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This campaign includes a web site, live events, and social media components like links to the "raise Your Hand" Facebook page and Twitter account.
It encourages young workers to be pro-active about their own workplace safety.
BYGGESIKKERHED.DK
Website For Construction Safety
This website by the BAR Bygge & Anlæg (Sectoral Working Environment Council on Building and Construction) aims to raise awareness and knowledge about safety in professions in the construction sector.
The website is available in four languages: Danish, English, Polish and German. It contains 15 different areas, each of them covering one profession at the construction site: bricklayer, scaffold builder, glazier, floor fitter, construction builder, mason paviour, building builder, electrician, painter, demolition worker, roofer, carpenter, plumber, asphalt worker and safety representative.
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The website is available in four languages: Danish, English, Polish and German. It contains 15 different areas, each of them covering one profession at the construction site: bricklayer, scaffold builder, glazier, floor fitter, construction builder, mason paviour, building builder, electrician, painter, demolition worker, roofer, carpenter, plumber, asphalt worker and safety representative.
Passport to Safety
Nationally recognised certificate on OSH knowledge
Passport to Safety is an innovative national youth health and safety test and transcript programme in Canada that verifies whether young people have a basic understanding of what they need to know to protect themselves from injury at work. The Passport to Safety card is a nationally recognised certificate, which certifies a basic level of health and safety knowledge.
Passport to Safety does not replace the job-specific health and safety training that is required of all employers under Canadian legislation. All employers are still required to provide the training necessary for each worker to be able to perform their job safely.
The Passport to Safety aims to help eliminate needless injuries and preventable deaths of young Canadians aged 24 and under.
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Passport to Safety does not replace the job-specific health and safety training that is required of all employers under Canadian legislation. All employers are still required to provide the training necessary for each worker to be able to perform their job safely.
The Passport to Safety aims to help eliminate needless injuries and preventable deaths of young Canadians aged 24 and under.
Ambassador network
for teachers in social and health care training programmes
The Ambassador Network is a programme in social and health care vocational schools to support the teaching of OSH and coach teachers in this area. In each vocational school, an ‘ambassador’ for OSH/work environment training is established to support other teachers. the ambassadors are organised into a network to share e.g. information and experiences.
Instigators of this project are the joint employer-trade union work environment council (BAR) for the social and health care sector.
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Instigators of this project are the joint employer-trade union work environment council (BAR) for the social and health care sector.
Napo
Safety with a smile
Napo is an original idea conceived by a small group of OSH communications professionals in response to the need for high quality information products to break down national boundaries and address the diverse cultures, languages and practical needs of people at work. Each film is co-produced by a number of European Institutions. The Film Consortium - HSE (UK); DGUV (Germany); INAIL (Italy); INRS (France); SUVA (Switzerland) and AUVA (Austria) - emerged from the European Year of Safety and Health 1992/3, and the European Film Festival held in Thessaloniki in 1992.
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SAFESTART
SAFESTART is a project staged by Preventie & Interim as part of the European Leonardo Da Vinci programme. It is a European partnership which aims to enhance work floor safety through the development of a user-friendly e-Learning training course, enabling users to prepare at their own pace for the exam in order to obtain the B-VCA certificate that is mandatory in some European countries.
Safestart is a training course via e-learning in "Basic Safety at Work" for school-leavers, jobseekers and temporary workers.
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basic safety through e-Learning
Safestart is a training course via e-learning in "Basic Safety at Work" for school-leavers, jobseekers and temporary workers.
AdRisk project
European network on adolescent and injury risk prevention
The AdRisk project (Community Action on Adolescents and Injury Risk) represents an integrated approach to reduce the injury risk and risk taking behaviour among adolescents aged 15-24 years. The high injury-related mortality and morbidity rate among adolescents can be partly explained by their risk-taking behaviour and lifestyles. AdRisk wants to supplement existing injury prevention and/or safety promotion programmes.
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"Volle Puste"
Full Breath
"Volle Puste" (Full Breath) is a project by the Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. It is supported by the Initiative for New Quality at Work (INQA). The project is supposed to raise awareness of the role of respiratory and skin diseases when choosing a profession.
Four E- Learning cases exist so far, dealing with lung and skin diseases in different professions like mechatronic engineers, hairdressers, mechanic engineers and medical technical assistants.
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Four E- Learning cases exist so far, dealing with lung and skin diseases in different professions like mechatronic engineers, hairdressers, mechanic engineers and medical technical assistants.
STAD
Stockholm Prevents Alcohol and Drug Problems
STAD started in 1995 as a project, and is since the year 2005 a section within the Center for Dependency Disorders in Stockholm, Stockholm County Council. STAD conducts long-term development work in alcohol and drug prevention by testing and evaluating promising methods for the prevention of alcohol and drug problems. Evaluation is being carried out in co-operation with the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Karolinska Institute.
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“New Kids on the Job”
BAR U&F Denmark
“Ny i job” or “New Kids on the Job” is teaching materials addressed to young people in transition between education and job and to young people, who have just started their working life. Teaching materials are for goal orientated education and instruction to change attitudes to occupational safety and health. It promotes and encourages a preventive culture among young workers and their employers.
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International conference "Integration of health and safety at work into vocational education"
23th -24th October 2006, Vienna
The "Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt (AUVA)", the most important institution in social insurance in Austria, organised an international safety competition for apprentices in the construction industry "Building is team-work". This competition was hosted in cooperation with the social partners and supported by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, as well as the international conference "Integration of health and safety at work into vocational education". This conference and the competition took place in Vienna on 23th and 24th October, 2006.
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Passport to health and safety skills
Promoting safety and health in general vocational education
Running competitions and coaching young competitors was found to be an excellent method to promote occupational safety and health. The competitions involved enterprises and educational establishments from about 40 different trades. As such it helped to promote cooperation between schools and businesses and, through this cooperation, both partners became more aware of the importance of OSH issues at work and for workers’ health. The young competitors who were awarded were good examples for students in vocational education and for other young people at the start of their work careers.
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College students solve physical workload problems
Young people with jobs in agriculture and horticulture are exposed to physically demanding working conditions causing risks to their health and safety. This project took the form of a training programme, and targeted agricultural students aged 16-20 years who were employed and attending college at the same time. The programme had two main goals: to educate students on physical strain and how to cope with it and to challenge students to assess their own work environments and to think up ways of improving it.
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