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Keeping Young People Safe

The World Health Organization (WHO), supported by the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT), UNAIDS, the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF, challenge you to use your bright minds and entrepreneurial skills to address one of the of urgent health challenges for the next decade: Keeping young people safe.
The range of possible health innovation solutions that may be submitted include: apps or games; wearables, digital technologies, tools or platforms, products; the creation or improvement of products, services, processes; new approaches to collaboration or communication, or new ways of engaging young people and/or other stakeholders; policy reform proposals - with a view to keeping young people safe across the world.
Health innovations are defined here as the creation or improvement of virtual, physical or digital products, services, processes, or systems to improve public health.
Individuals and groups of up to four (4) individuals are invited to respond to the challenge by submitting a proposed solution to the challenge. There are no age restrictions. Only one (1) submission is allowed per individual or group of individuals. Submissions must be made in your own personal capacity, and not as representative of an organization.
Submissions will be accepted globally, but priority will be given to submissions that demonstrate respect for gender diversity and involvement of young people exposed to, affected by or living with the issue/risk/disease/condition in the development of the respective solution.
All submissions will be featured on the challenge webpage on the Unite Ideas platform. The winners and their proposals will be mentioned on the WHO public website and invited to attend an award ceremony at WHO’s Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2020 (date and other details TBC). Flights and accommodation will be covered by WHO, in accordance with its rules and procedures, for up to three winners (one individual representative of each winning proposal).
Submit your solution by 15 April 2020. More details about the challenge can be found here.
New ILO Report

According to the new ILO report "Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020 - Technology and the future of jobs", the number of young people currently not in employment, education or training (NEET) is rising, and young women are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to be affected.
Young people (those aged 15-24) who are employed also face a greater risk than older workers of losing their jobs because of automation, and those with vocational training are particularly vulnerable, the report shows.
“This reflects how the occupation-specific skills imparted by vocational training tend to become obsolete faster… than general education skills,” the report says. It calls for vocational training programmes to be revised and modernized so that they meet the changing demands of the digital economy.
There are currently around 1.3 billion young people globally, of whom 267 million are classified as NEET. Two-thirds, or 181 million, of NEETs are young women.
“Too many young people around the world are becoming detached from education and the labour market, which can damage their long-term prospects, as well as ultimately undermine the social and economic development of their countries,” said Sangheon Lee, Director of the Employment Policy Department of the ILO. “But the reasons why they become NEET vary enormously. The challenge will be to balance the flexible approach needed to reach these young people with the strong policies and actions necessary to make an impact. A ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach won’t work.”
The ILO report is available for download now.
Deadline for submissions

 UPDATE  In the scope of the XXII World Congress on Safety and Health in October in Toronto, Canada, the International Media Festival for Prevention will take place.
The IMFP is an integral part of the World Congress and highlights that successful prevention work can be advanced through outstanding creative multimedia initiatives. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the various ways different cultures approach occupational safety and health.
The IMFP profiles films and multimedia productions about safety and health at work from all over the world. It provides a unique opportunity for participants to present their products and ideas to a major group of influential safety and health professionals.
All films and multimedia productions, for example films, websites, apps, web-based training, social media and software, are accepted. Submissions can be made by national and international organizations, or institutions as well as by agencies, filmmakers or individuals. We accept all media on safety and health at work produced since January 2016.
So far over 200 productions from all over the world have been submitted to the International Media Festival for Prevention 2020!
The deadline for submissions has been extended to March 31, 2020.
An international jury will select the winners and all nominated and winning productions will be presented to World Congress delegates in the Festival Cinema during the Congress. Prizes will be awarded in the presence of a large audience during the Special Media Session on October 5, 2020.
More details on the IMFP Website.
first meeting in Düsseldorf

On January 31, 2020 a first meeting on the new project “SDG 8 – Promoting decent work and productive employment through Higher Education” took place in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Under the lead of Johannes Siegrist, Senior Professor at University Düsseldorf and Nuria Mancebo, Director of the Chair of Health and Safety of the University of Girona, Spain, Chair of the ENETOSH Task Force Higher Education, this project has been started to strengthen decent work and productive employment through improved and coordinated education and training programs on health and safety in Higher Education at national, European and international level. The project was initiated by Lennart Levi, Emeritus Professor of Psychosocial Medicine, Member of the Swedish Parliament 2006-2010; Eurostress HB, Sweden. The official kick-off event will be announced soon.
new report of the LEARN! project

On 24 January 2020, the second UNESCO International Day of Education, a new report was published that highlights 17 key principles for delivering effective road safety education in Europe.
This new report sets out recommendations in the form of Key Principles that should be implemented in all European countries, in order to ensure that everyone – and especially children and youngsters – receive high quality traffic safety and mobility education. The 17 Key Principles are accompanied by best practice examples that illustrate how these principles can be applied in practice.
The report is published as part of the LEARN! (Leveraging Education to Advance Road safety Now) project, by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) and Fundación MAPFRE, and aims to improve the quality of traffic safety and mobility education across Europe.
More information on the project and the report for download are available at www.trafficsafetyeducation.eu
Forestry and wood production sector - by ILO

Uruguay is one of the participating countries of the global Project “Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy Workers. Safe Youth @ work”, executed by the ILO and funded by the US Department of Labor. One of the components of the Project aims at strengthening the mainstreaming of occupational safety and health into vocational training.
The inclusion of OSH training into VT training programmes is commonplace. All the actors involved in training and work agree that it is in training processes where we should acquire knowledge, develop skills and internalize risk identification and prevention behaviours at work.
For participants in training processes, in particular young people, to effectively adopt safe and healthy work behaviours, they must understand and value their importance, associate them and apply them in the different processes and moments of their work practice, know their rights and duties in this field and, most of all, identify and act to prevent the specific risks to which they are exposed to by developing OSH skills.
The objective of this booklet is to offer some practical guidelines to teachers to make their work in the field of OSH easier.
The guidelines and suggestions that are here systematized aim at mainstreaming the prevention of risks at work, the protection and the promotion of health into the forestry and wood production sector, while also taking into account the particular features of the target audience: young people who are participating in educational processes.
These guidelines include: Identification of skills to be developed by participants, Methodological suggestions for mainstreaming, Analysis of work processes by identifying risks, common errors and systematizing good practices, Examples of learning activities linked to different risks and a repository of resources to support training processes.
The guide can be downloaded on the ILO website.
ERGOHAIR Project

The "ergoHAIR- project - development and promotion of a healthy and safe working environment through the design of ergonomic workplaces and work processes in the hairdressing sector - run by coiffureEU, the European association of national employers' organisations in hairdressing, has been finalised after 3 years.
The products that have been developed are available on the ERGOHAIR website, as well as on the website www.ergoforhairdressers.com, which has been developed to focus on younger people.
Both websites provide lots of products and resources, such as an online questionnaire, medical reference documents, a collection of good practice examples on ergonomics for hairdressers, ergonomic tips for employees and for employers, ergonomic tips for training and education, ergonomic tips for suppliers and other ergonomic tips.
The ergoHAIR project will be referenced by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) in the new biannual campaign (2020-2022) concerning "Musculoskeletal conditions".
Practical guidelines and tools for designers, teachers and training

The global Project “Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy Workers -- Safe Youth@Work Project”, executed by the ILO and funded by the US Department of Labor, pursues among its main components: mainstreaming OSH in vocational training programmes, awareness raising of vulnerability of young workers and enhancing the technical capacities of labour inspectors to better identify the occupational risks faced by youth at work.
In this framework, ILO/Cinterfor (Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training) is responsible for implementing the Project component related to OSH in vocational training in Uruguay and as a learning outcome of the implementation of the Project in the country, this guide was defined with the purpose of being a valuable tool for the entire region. Based on an applied experience, the impact of the Project is regionalized through a tool that is available to other countries.
The purpose of this Guide is that the different actors involved in training processes (curriculum designers, leaders at educational centres, teachers or facilitators, in-company tutors, etc.) can find tools and practical suggestions that may enable the application of OSH principles and practices at all times. The guidelines and suggestions that are here systematized aim at approaching the prevention of risks at work, the protection and the promotion of health in different areas in a cross-cutting manner, while also taking into account the particular features of the target audience: young people who are participating in educational processes of different kinds.
The guide can be downloaded from the "Skills for Employment" website of ILO.
from Greece

We are glad to welcome the Institute Of Prevention And Development (IPD) from Greece as a new member to our network. ENETOH now has 95 members from 37 countries, 13 of them individual members, the others institutional.
IPD is a non-profit research organization committed to the promotion of prevention culture, personal development and the promotion of wellbeing in the working and social life.
The Institute develops research and is capable of providing innovative solutions that facilitate the growth of healthy entrepreneurship and promote employment in a health environment. In order to achieve this goal, IPD adopts an anthropocentric approach and cooperates with social, academic and business partners from all over the world, aiming at producing and transferring know-how, promoting entrepreneurial culture and enhancing the effectiveness and viability of enterprises.
More about IPD on the institute's website.
International competition

The International Year of Sound 2020 (IYS) is a global initiative to highlight the importance of sound and related sciences and technologies for all in society. The International Year of Sound will consist of coordinated activities on regional, national and international levels. These activities will aim to stimulate the understanding throughout the world of the important role that sound plays in all aspects of our society. As well, these activities will also encourage an understanding of the need for the control of noise in nature, in the built environment, and in the workplace.
In the scope of the International Year of Sound, an International Competition for students of Primary, Middle and Secondary Schools from all over the world has been announced.
The competition is structured in two categories:
1. Competition for students of Primary and Middle Schools (approximately from 5 to 12 years old); Students are asked to produce hand-made drawings, pictures, patchworks, collages and similar, related to their world of sounds, inspired by the the motto of IYS2020 “Importance of Sound for Society and the World” and, possibly, by melody and refrain of the song “We are the sounds of our world”.
2. Competition for students of Secondary Schools (approximately from 13 to 18 years old); Students are asked to write a stanza of 4 verses in mother tongue and/or in English, inspired by the melody and the refrain of the song “We are the sounds of our world” as well as by the motto of IYS2020 “Importance of Sound for Society and the World”.
Participants can be students: as individual or organized in groups and whole classes, considered as representatives of their school.
Deadline is 30 April 2020, Winners and awarded items will be announced by ICA (International Commission for Acoustics) by 31 August 2020.
You can find the competition details in this document (PDF) or on the IYS website.
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