To underpin occupational safety and health (OSH) education in schools and colleges it is necessary to formalize it in curriculum requirements. This report reviews how the member states are including OSH and risk education in their national curricula. The report shows that there is considerable...

The work environment, as has been noted constantly over the past two to three decades, is consistent in the changes that have taken place and continue to take place within it. One of the contributing factors to these changes is that countries across the world are more accessible because...

This report describes the state of the art in addressing cultural diversity in the workplace, for which we distinguish two aspects: - Cross-cultural aspects in occupational safety and health (OSH): working in teams that are homogeneous with regard to their national culture. This issue is...

In 2012-13 the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), as part of the Healthy Workplace Campaign, is aiming to achieve better occupational safety and health by promoting 'better health and safety at work through prevention'. The campaign's focus is on both leadership and worker...

Workplace health promotion (WHP) is the combined efforts of employers, workers and society to improve the health and wellbeing of people at work. This can be achieved by: improving the work organisation and the work environment; promoting the active participation of all stakeholders in the...

The aim of this report was to conduct a review of the available literature to identify the motivating factors for employees to participate in WHP. This knowledge can be used to improve WHP programmes and, consequently, the participation rates. The findings section of the report is divided into...

The European Agency for safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) publishes studies of goof practices to prevent workplace risks in a series of reports on different topics. The cases are analysed for success factors, and effective worker participation is consistently shown to be a basic requierement...

European countries could benefit from introducing more economic incentives to promote workplace health and safety, rewarding those organisations that work hardest to protect their employees. That is the message of the economic incentive project, undertaken by the European Agency for Safety and...

This report presents a range of different examples which involve training in-service and future teachers in either occupational safety and health (OSH) or in delivering risk education. While the aim was to explore training for teachers, some other alternatives are included, for example, the use...

Managing OSH in a systematic way, addressing regulatory, technical, organisational and managerial aspects, is vital to attain safer and healthier workplaces. However, OSH entails more than just focusing on formal issues. As risk prevention and OSH is, in the first place, about people - and...