in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ENETOSH represented at this year’s AIHce EXP 2019
Each year, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) seeks out speakers from around the globe to provide world-class education on topics important to IH/OH professionals.
Through collaborations with Dr. Ulrike Bollmann (ENETOSH), Dr. Thomas Fuller (Illinois State University), and Lester Claravall (Oklahoma Department of Labor), an abstract was put together discussing the ENETOSH ‘mainstreaming OSH into education’ concept. From the hundreds of abstracts submitted to the AIHA, “Global Occupational Safety and Health Education and Mainstreaming Collaborations” was one of the abstracts accepted. Fuller and Claravall co-presented this topic during the AIHce EXP 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The presentation identified OSH curricula for various educational levels, described the global need for expanded OSH education to build OSH professional competence, and identified new areas where OSH curricula might be applied in their organizations. In addition, Fuller discussed the ENETOSH / IOHA collaborations taking place between the two international organizations.
As a representative for ENETOSH, Claravall shared the current state of the art of the ENETOSH web platform and good practice examples. In addition, Claravall shared the ENETOSH model (see fig.1).
Fuller and Claravall fielded great questions from an international crowd of about 50 participants. At the conclusion of the session, many of the participants complimented how they liked the presentation because it introduced them to new insights they didn’t think about previously. The IH/OH professionals also had the opportunity to see firsthand how the ENETOSH model is currently being practiced in Oklahoma via curriculum policy and via the nation’s first ‘mainstreaming OSH into education” law (Senate Bill 262) passed in Oklahoma.

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now available on nextskills.org
Future Skills Report 2019
The full Future Skills Report 2019 is now available as a 69-pages PDF file and ready for download on nextskills.org.
How will higher education institutions have to position in order to prepare future graduates for the changing society and future work place? The Future Skill Report is based on a number of prior research studies on future skills – future learning and future higher education. It presents validated concept and elaborates a model of future skills, data on future learning and consolidated scenarios for future higher education.
The results presented from this Delphi survey are taking a broader view and go beyond digital skill demands. The approach elaborates on an experts’ informed vision of future higher education (HE), taking into account the demand for future skills, outlines the four signposts of change which will shape the learning revolution in higher education and presents a first model of future skills for future graduates.
This Delphi Survey is part of the Research Initiative on “Future Skills – Future Learning and Future Higher Education”, which started in 2015. It includes research on learning and change on organizations pathways to the future, their conceptions of the future workplace and the definitions of futures skills and involves data- and methodological triangulation in three separate modules building on each other.

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a UNESCO Chair and UNITWIN Network
Global Health & Education
A new world-wide initiative in school health and safety promotion was launched for the coming four years at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris: the Global Health & Education.
This initiative provides a framework for participating universities to share their interests with partner organisations and institutions - for example, ENETOSH - in creating a new culture linking health and education. This initiative’s connections to UN agencies - both UNESCO and WHO - and its deep roots in existing international networks positions it as a strategic resource for knowledge production, knowledge transfer and capacity building at a global level.
The initiative will make a contribution to policy and practice by developing international research projects, translating research evidence, strengthening capacitybuilding and - within both institutions and networks - offering support to policymakers and practitioners at a global level. In particular, the goal of this network is to promote research and training while contributing to building, interpreting and disseminating a knowledge base in the field of health education and health promotion in schools.
As this new network is a unique opportunity for ENETOSH to disseminate the concept of ‘good healthy schools’ by sharing experiences and learning from other initiatives around the world linking health and education in school safety and health promotion, ENETOSH will be part of the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education initiative.
More information on the UNESCO CHAIR website.

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at OSHAfrica
New Training Advisory council
The Board of Trustees is an eight-man Governing Board of OSHAfrica, represented by highly qualified African Occupational Safety and Health professionals with equal representation from all sub regions of Africa in line with global gender equality framework and inclusivity which gives equal opportunity to every member irrespective of gender differences and physical disability or inability. The Board of Trustees now has established a new Training Advisory Council (TAC).
This new TAC consists of experts in OSH training from Africa and Europe and is supposed to leverage OSHAfrica's training programs to the desired level. At the beginning of 2019, a concept note for the three OSH Certification courses that were approved by the Board was finalized. The new Training Advisory Council will take over from the approved concept note and facilitate the development and implementation of these courses.
Prof Amani Waheed from Suez Canal University in Egypt will head this council and she will be assisted by Mr Joseph David Magee from the UK. Furthermore, the council consists of the following experts: Khayongo Barbra from Uganda, Prof Ntakirutimana Theoneste from Rwanda, Dr P Chitagu from Zimbabwe, Dr Aiweresia Vera Ngowi from Tanzania, Dapo Omolade from Nigeria, and Dr Ulrike Bollmann from Germany.

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Current Coordinators
ENETOSH Steering committee
In the scope of the ENETOSH Steering Committee meeting on 21 March 2019 in Bilbao, Nuria Mancebo Fernandez, University of Girona (UdG), Spain, has been elected as the new chair of the ENETOSH Steering Committee. She follows Matthew Holder from the British Safety Council (BSC) who were in this position since 2014. Diana de Sousa Policarpo, Authority for Working Conditions (ACT), Portugal, became the new co-chair of the committee. Ulrike Bollmann, coordinator of ENETOSH, thanks Matthew for the great support of the network through his ongoing personal engagement and past BSC support and looks forward continuing good cooperation in the future.

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by ANKEY Consulting in Turkey
request for a training expert
In the scope of an EU funded project in Turkey, ANKEY Consulting has been shortlisted with two French partners in technical assistance for improving Occupational Health and Safety especially in the mining sector.
ANKEY now does urgently need key experts in OHS with a great experience in implementing/designing of trainings, additionally minimum 2-3 years experience in OHS trainings in the mining sector, and is looking for two experts: a team leader and a training expert. Nationality does not really matter as long as he/she is from one of European Union 28 or European Non-EU 28 countries.
Please click here for a PDF telling the exact requirements needed for Key Expert 2 (team leader - this one is needed especially urgently) and Key Expert 1(training expert).
Applications should be sent to Mehmet Cakar at ANKEY Consulting.
More about ANKEY Consulting and contact details on the company website.

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Technical University of Ostrava
International Summer School
The International Summer School is a short term activity provided by the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. For the summer 2019, 7 interesting one-week courses were prepared. It´s a great opportunity to use holidays to explore new places, meet interesting people and boost knowledge. Each course takes 5 working days.
The topics of this year's Summer School cover a broad range from "Adventures of architecture in Ostrava urban wildness" to "New approaches to quality management", which contains novelties in quality management and integrated management, as well as risk management in quality management, and more.
The International Summer School will take place from 8 - 19 July 2019 in Ostrava (CZ).
More information and the whole Summer School programme on the website.

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from the project "Mind safety - safety matters!
Guidelines for Teacher Education and Training on OSH Learning
This new brochure is available now on the website of Autoridade para as Condições do Trabalho (ACT), project coordinator of the project.
This publication is based on the General Principles of Prevention and aims to contribute to the promotion of a safety culture on workplaces, resulting from the need to reinforce OSH Education through collaboration and shared experiences, providing support for the teachers, and raising students' awareness about Safety and Health issues.
The contents presented in this document express the teamwork developed by a consortium of seven partners from 5 European countries (Czech Republic, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Spain) and is an output of the project “Mind Safety – Safety Matters!”
The project “Mind Safety-Safety Matters!” – funded by the Erasmus+ Programme – it is geared to in- service teachers and students ages 14 to 18 (lower/upper secondary levels). This option is supported by the fact that these students belong to an age-group which is concluding their learning cycles in general or vocational education, and are eventually about to enter the labour market.
The publication can be found here (in Spanish, link to the ACT website) and here (in English).

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to OSHAfrica by CIEH
OSH Training books donation
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), Ireland, is getting rid of their stock and has donated the big number of 18.000 OSH training books to one of our member institutions, OSH Literacy. The books range from Level 1 - 3 (English language) and cover a variety of OSH related subjects. David Magee, CEO of OSH Literacy, asked ENETOSH to look for an organization that could be interested, and we were able to convey this big amount of OSH knowledge to OSHAfrica.
The books will be distributed equally across all the regions in Africa and will serve as a great resource for OSH practitioners, professionals and others involved in the practice of OSH. The Board of Trustees and the scientific committees of OSHAfrica will work out the logistics for the distribution across the continent.
At the moment, the shipping of the books is being arranged. David Magee, who is accredited to teach most of the CIEH programs, already offered to run some teacher/trainer training courses for teachers and trainers in Africa on how to effectively use/deliver the courses.

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Programme Officer at ETUCE
Vacancy Notice
The European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) has a vacancy for a full-time Programme Officer at ETUCE – the European Trade Union Committee for Education in Brussels.
The vacancy is for a one year temporary contract that can potentially be converted into a permanent employment contract, subject to the needs of ETUCE at the time when the temporary contract expires. The vacant position is to be filled as of 1 February 2019.
The selected candidate is to work as a Programme Officer under the supervision of the European Director, assisting in the implementation of the ETUCE work programme, EU funded projects, and working particularly with the following areas within education trade union policies at European level: Working conditions and occupational health and safety, digitalisation in education and other related labour market issues.
As ETUCE organises conferences and other activities abroad, the position requires frequent travelling in Europe and includes the responsibility to represent ETUCE at events and meetings with the European Commission and the European Parliament.
Candidates are invited to submit their application including a cover letter and CV by 25 January.
For more information, please click here.

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