Reema Al Mana
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
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Develop the knowledge and the understanding for managing the occupational safety and health.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
At the end of the programme, participants were 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
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).
NUMBER OF HOURS: 550 hours