DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

Becoming a safety and health professional requires multidisciplinary training. The OSH profession calls for a broad-based educational background combined with specialized knowledge in physical sciences (medicine, physics, chemistry and engineering) and social sciences (behaviour, motivation and communication) together with the principles and concepts of management. Many professionals require updating their competences in line with this situation. The International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization offered this distance learning course on OSH delivered through an Internet-based platform to satisfy this need. OBJECTIVES The general objective of this course was to raise the knowledge and the understanding for managing the occupational safety and health. At the end of the programme, participants were expected to be able to: • organize the efforts of an enterprise to improve its OSH; • formulate, implement and evaluate a safety and health management plan for an enterprise, incorporating essential OSH concepts and fundamental techniques of OSH management; • manage the resources to conduct the required prevention activities to manage OSH; • advise employers and workers on OSH technical requirements and on the decisions to be made for an adequate management of the OSH. CONTENT The course included the following 8 modules: • Module A1: Introduction to the occupational safety and health. • Module A2: Occupational Safety. • Module A3: Occupational Hygiene. • Module A4: Occupational Medicine. • Module A5: Occupational Psychosociology and Ergonomics. • Module A6: Organization of OSH at the enterprise level. • Module A7: Participatory approaches for the improvement of the working conditions. • Module A8: Organization of OSH at the national level (Safestart).