#OSH4Edu online workshop

Representatives from EFEE/ETUCE member organisations met online for the first OSH4Edu workshop on 5 November 2020. Guest speakers and experts from the European Agency for Health and Safety (EU-OSHA) shared their insights and gave an overview of the development and future challenges of Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) tools. ETUCE and EFEE presented their OiRA project, in which the European social partners had jointly developed online risk assessment tools for primary and secondary education. These tools allow education institutions to locally assess existing risks and design and implement policies to remedy any shortcoming. While the tools have been at the first instance developed at European level, the further adaptation to national level policy allows for these tools to be further amended to the pandemic circumstances to address and include given and recent national health and safety legislation.
After the success of the first event, the European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE) and the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) are pleased to announce a second interactive online workshop hosted by the Irish partners within the framework of the “OSH4Edu – European Sectoral Social Partners in Education Enhancing Risk Assessment in Education Institutions Project”, which will take place on Tuesday 27 January 2021.
OiRA – Online interactive Risk Assessment – 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 EU-OSHA and it is based on the Dutch risk assessment instrument RI&E.
OiRA is an online platform that consists of the OiRA tool generator (where developers can create sectoral tools) and OiRA sectoral tools, which are accessible through an interactive website. Sectoral partners at EU or national level and EU or national authorities (the developers of the tools) can use the OiRA tool generator to create risk assessment tools for different sectors, for example the hairdressing sector. These tools — OiRA sectoral tools — are then made available for MSEs to use to carry out risk assessments.