Risk prevention / risk assessment

There are so many different risks that can be "hidden" in everyday work in the different professions or fields of work, therefore projects or programs that can help workers to see risks of their work-field in advance, cover a wide range.

Please take a look at our collection of examples of good practice!

 

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The OHTA training materials are available at four levels: Awareness, Foundation, Intermediate and Specialist. More information about the training scheme and qualifications framework can be found on the website.

The published training materials in current use are listed on the website as well. Examinations (where appropriate) are based on these materials.

 

FH Potsdam

In cooperation with ZEDI – Zentrale Einrichtung Digitale Lehre, the transfer scouts and staff and teachers from the field of occupational safety and health, the project "Arbeitsschutz Digital" is developing digital teaching and learning units on the topic of occupational safety and health for students, teachers and staff that can be used both centrally and decentrally.

Cyberjaya College Kuching

A 2.5-year programme prepares students of safety and health with knowledge and skills that enable them to bring about change in the way safety and health initiatives are implemented in the workplace. This programme is in partnership with a 5-Star University, University of Cyberjaya.

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Risk assessment guide to help employers, in consultation with the recognised trade unions, assess the extent of harm that may be caused by the Ofsted process and take practical steps to minimise these risks.

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This VR Safety Training is dedicated to such important topics as maintaining safety at the workplace, helping employees to eliminate hazardous conditions and avoiding them by following the OSHA 1910.269 standards requirements.

FZDW GUS

The study “Health behavior and accidents in school age” (Gesundheitsverhalten und Unfallgeschehen im Schulalter
- GUS), duration November 2013 – June 2021, is one of the largest child and youth studies in Germany, which is also designed as a longitudinal study. As part of GUS, the health and accident biographies of 10,000 students nationwide from the fifth to the tenth grade were traced in order to determine the causes of accidents and injuries in the school context, but also of unhealthy behavior.

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Young people are curious and want to try things out. Caution is often secondary. With our information you can channel the arrogance of learners and show them where the dangers lie. Ensure that your apprenticeship period is safe so that no accidents thwart your protégés' future plans.

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Each apprentice goes through different departments during their practical period in the supermarket. During on-site instruction, apprentices are made aware of the respective risks. Detailed information is provided in the state vocational schools in their own Spar academy classes, whose curriculum is tailored to work at Spar.

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This LEARN! Flash report provides an overview of the road safety of children and youngsters across Europe.

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Report: Correlations between targets for the companies' work environment efforts and reported occupational accidents
Illuminated with the questionnaire survey 'Working environment efforts of companies' and follow-up in the register of reported occupational accidents.

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The project Vision Zero provides a collection of papers for employers and managers, for a variety of different branches.

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Industrial accident data over the past several years makes clear that while mitigating Major Accident Hazard events is a fundamental objective, so-called “black swan” events are becoming more commonplace – especially in the refining and petrochemical industries. In fact, over the past 20 years, the combined losses from these events have totaled around $28 billion!

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The "trafficsafety4you" program was specially developed for 14 to 18 year olds. It comprises four modules, each of which lasts four school hours and is carried out by experienced traffic psychologists in the presence of the class teachers. There is an alcohol module, a drugs and medication module, a distraction module and a tiredness and fitness to drive module in road traffic.

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Family holidays are great fun for everyone. For mum and dad, it’s a chance to put work behind you for a while and spend some meaningful time with the people who matter most in your life. For kids, a trip away offers the chance to explore new horizons, as they make memories which will stay with them forever.

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Formaldehyde is used in medical fields such as pathology, human and veterinary anatomy for the fixation, preservation and storage of human or animal tissue. In November 2014, the Committee on Hazardous Substances adopted a workplace limit value (AGW) for formaldehyde, which also applies to workplaces in anatomical institutes at German universities, but is not always complied with.

German Accident Insurance

On this website, run by German Accident Insurance, children, pupils and other visitors can click through a unique virtual model of a school, to find risks, prevent accidents and to find out more about hazards. For a safe and healthy school for everyone.

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Signed Safety is creating opportunities for companies and organisations to enhance their workplace environment by keeping ahead of the increasing demand for high health and safety standards coming from employees, authorities and the public.

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Industrial accident prevention is a critical problem to avoid loss of human lives, injuries, damage of installations and financial losses. Training is only effective and sustainable, if the human trainees are affected by their training experiences.  Time travel games, in general, and time travel prevention games, in particular, are an innovative category of edutainment media having high potential in areas such as environmental education and prevention training.

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The mission of the Center for Public Health Workforce Development is to provide a link between our faculty and practice partners in teaching, research and the practice of public health. The continuing education activities are designed to strengthen the cooperation between the Center for Public Health Workforce Development and state and local public health practitioners.

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A set of preventive measures (technical, organizational, educational and other) with the aim of preventing occupational accidents, occupational diseases and other occupational health damage or reducing them to a minimum.

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Health-promoting leadership training in day-care centres.

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Formaldehyde is one of the most important basic chemical substances in industry and medicine. In medical areas such as pathology, human and veterinary anatomy, formaldehyde is used, among other things, for the fixation, preservation and storage of human or animal tissue or body donations due to its property of rapidly denaturing proteins and bringing about uniform tissue hardening.

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It is important to pay attention to safe and healthy work in (vocational) education. For workers to prevent personal suffering, injury and health problems. For companies, because healthy employees and sustainably employable workers are more productive, are less absent and can work longer.

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With Work Safety, we give you the opportunity to use all the potential of digital continuing education/training on one platform or in individual courses. Be inspired by the digital learning experience.

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Digital manufacturing is the application of digital technologies to manufacturing, having the right information, at the right place, at the right time.
The goal is to link disparate systems and span processes across all departments and functions within the value chain. By doing so, each stakeholder gains quicker access to more accurate data, allows higher customization of product, producing smaller batch, generate cost savings, workplaces are becoming more ergonomic and health is being promoted. It is not always about product but also services.

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Digitalisation is no longer new and it continues its evolution throughout industry. Employers are continuously working on minimising challenges and risks that digitalisation at the workplace causes. Digital technologies, that already complement human labour, offer the possibility of creating a safer and healthier work environment.

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Hitachi’s Digital Health and Safety Solution offers a holistic, end-to-end solution to maximize people, asset, and shop floor safety.

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Digitalization can bring about a great deal of innovation, productivity and flexibility. Digital technologies are gaining even more ground in occupational safety, improving processes and heightening overall workforce safety.

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The Utah State Board of Education (USBE), in coordination with stakeholders, has made Safe and Healthy Schools a board priority. The Utah School Safety Framework includes 9 Conditions that schools may follow to create comprehensive safe and healthy school policies, plans, protocols, and partnerships.

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Teen workers are twice as likely to be injured on the job. The annual “Speak Out for Workplace Safety” video contest is underway. The contest is designed to increase awareness about safety for young workers.

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Using the ever-popular Napo character, EU-OSHA (the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work), together with the Napo Consortium, has devised a series of occupational safety and health (OSH) lessons for teachers, aimed at introducing safety and health topics to primary school students in an educational, yet fun and imaginative way using Napo video clips.

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Brochures and learning materials for kids on the topic “How to deal with fire”.

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Website with a large amount of material for safety and wellbeing of students, teaching tools and materials for teachers.

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Every year, approximately 4,000 Saskatchewan workers under the age of 25 are injured on the job. Three young workers die annually in a workplace incident. WorkSafe Sakatchewan initiated a video contest for high school students grade 9 – 12 to create a two-minute video to demonstrate workplace safety, health and injury prevention in an engaging way and be entered to win prizes for the team and school! WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s 2021 Youth video contest was offered with support from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS).

Investigating safety & health in pre- and primary schools

In the interests of a sustainable anchoring of the prevention concept, it is important to sensitize children to safety and health issues in a vivid way.

a board game by Ikeja Electric, Nigeria

Ikeja Electric Plc (IE), Nigeria’s largest electricity distribution company, has taken its safety enlightenment campaign a notch higher ...

LOcHER is an approach for students and apprentices to identify health and safety risks in their area of study ...

Online Interactive Risk Assessment

OiRA is a web platform that enables the creation of sectoral risk assessment tools in any language in an easy and standardised way. It is developed and maintained by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) and it is based on the Dutch risk assessment instrument RI&E.

Health and Safety Courses, Training, Health and Safety Audits

This website by the British Safety Council offers lots of information and resources for young people and employers ...

Preventing Injuries. Saving Lives.

Parachute is a Canadian national, charitable organization dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives.

by Pakistan Safety Council (PSC)

This distance learning and tutor supported course provides safety and health professionals, managers and other learners with the opportunity to expand their knowledge and skills on safety and health.

A bird as a symbol for childrens´safety campaigns

Pellekaija Pum is an exotic and rare bird. It is distantly related to a parrot. Pellekaija Pum is bumbling around in all kinds of dangerous situations and the children must give him advice so that he will not hurt himself.

Bachelor and Master in Engineering at the University of Liverpool

There is an indication that across Higher Education (HE) engineering courses in the UK, the extent and content of risk education varies, and is not always commensurate with the level of risk that undergraduates could be responsible for managing in their professional life.

In this film Napo presents the meaning of seven warning signs. A lot of chemical products that are used in working life can threaten our health. These substances can be poisonous, can cause cancer, acid-treat our eyes and skin, lead to diverse irritations, cause allergy or o lead to fire or explosions.

The short episode for the theme “Safe Start” shows hazards and risks that young workers should be aware of and it shows how the young workers should behave in certain situations. Year of production: 2006, running time.

OIRA tools for working with children in schools and nursery homes, developed in Spain, Croatia and Europe. When working with children, nursery teachers are exposed to various work-

A project by the Seamen’s Pension Fund (Merimieselakekassa) to support Finnish seafarers’ occupational well-being and working capacity by developing the operations of the shipping companies, their occupational health care systems and occupational safety organizations.

GUROM is an instrument for the holistic analysis of risk factors in (occupational) traffic participation and includes the derivation of measures. As an online tool, it is designed to help you prevent accidents on the way to and from work, to school, and on business trips and routes.

Upsi is a comic character, created by the Accident Insurance Berlin to rise awareness for OSH topics in a playful way. Eight books and one radio play have been released until now.

This online tutorial teaches the risks and hazards of working with electricity. It is interactive with an exercise sheet.

As at nearly every workplace, there is a computer screen, many people complaining at the end of your work day, tired eyes, headache and pain in neck, back and arms.

OiRA is a comprehensive, easy to use and cost-free web application. It helps micro and small organisations to put in place a thorough step-by-step risk assessment process ...

A project by the Health and Safety Authority, Dublin to raise awareness amongst farmers regarding hazards for children at the farm ...

IS THIS school SAFE AT ALL?' is a school safety assessment guide for parents and school owners.

During the educational process the students acquire current knowledge regarding ergonomics, safety and health protection, analysis and assessment of occupational risk, safety and work hygiene management.

Accident Insurance North Rhine-Westphalia

On this website, run by the Accident Insurance North Rhine-Westphalia, children, pupils and other visitors can click through a unique virtual model of a kindergarten and find out where there are risks and how to prevent accidents and be aware of hazards to make the kindergarten safe for all.

SPA provides a nationally recognised standard of Health and Safety assurance for Contractors, Agency Staff and Employees.

The University of Liverpool integrates, in association with the Health and Safety Laboratory, OSH into different courses. The aims of this cooperation are to create the ultimate learning environment for the engineers of tomorrow ...

This revised leaflet aims to help you identify, assess and control health and safety risks associated with workplace hazards – the guidance replaces 'Five steps to risk assessment'.

The ability to carry out a detailed machinery risk assessment has, for some time, been a key skill required under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regs. Machinery risk assessment is also now explicitly required by the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008.

This leaflet is aimed at employers, managers and others with responsibility for health and safety. It will also be useful to employees and safety representatives. As part of managing the health and safety of a business, the risks at the workplace must be controlled.

A couple of courses related to safety at work by North Lindsay College, United Kingdom.

A new toolkit highlighting the changes to the labelling of chemical substances has been launched by EU-OSHA. The toolkit helps employers and their workers handle dangerous substanc

The creative safety blog does research and give information for Creative Safety Supply. The blog offers a valuable resource on using and maximizing the life of floor safety tape. T

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The new Upsi picture book is once again very colorful and quite fun too.

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Two posters featuring UPSI, the comic character of the Accident Insurance Berlin, dealing with sun- and water-related dangers for children...

Children are exposed to pesticides through their work or involvement in agricultural activities, which can harm their health and development. This course explains how children are

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The term lifelong learning in Europe was affirmed in the nineties of the 20th century, and the focus shifted from education, which is an institutionalized and organized process, to lifelong learning, which includes all forms of learning in all life circumstances.

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