Preparation of teachers for education in OSH - continuation: more about teachers training program for OSH learning

OBJECTIVES

• To provide a space for self- introduction and well as encourage participants to reflect on their motives and their expectations.
• Outline the importance of safety education and awareness of workplace hazards at school.
• Clarify common understanding on OSH basic concepts.

GUIDING QUESTIONS

• Why should everyone concerned about occupational safety and health?
• What legal rights do workers have to a have safe job?

KEY IDEIAS

• In the global world, the fast technological advances have great impact in many aspects of our lives and also in the workplaces conditions.
• Although work as benefits for one’s life, it can also happen workers be injured, became sick or even killed on the job.
• Workers need to know how professional risks can affect their lives.
• Work in a safe and healthy way is a human right that should be learned as soon as possible.
• As new workers, young people are likely to be inexperienced and unfamiliar with many tasks required from them, so they need to learn and practice general health and safety skills.

DESCRIPTORS

• Understand the purpose of the workshop, and objectives of the module;
• Define work and workplace;
• Define hazard;
• List different hazardous situations and conditions on occupational activities;
• Have the perception of emerging risks at the workplaces, due the technological and societal changes;
• Discuss fundamental duties and rights at work;
• Compare different OSH perspectives  and evolution through time;
• Identify the relationship between the OSH awareness, since young ages, to improve workplace safety and health.

OBJECTIVE

• Recognize that work accidents and occupational diseases causes are predictable and can be prevented.

GUIDING QUESTION

• How do work accidents and occupational diseases happen and how can we prevent them?

KEY IDEIAS

• The high costs, suffering, and losses caused by deaths and work-related accident victims are inacceptable. From the point of view of accident prevention, to recognize risks and knowing how to act, while exposed to bad work conditions and practices it’s a long life learning process that should begin since we are young.
• Work-related accidents have an immediate visibility rather than occupational diseases that can take up to 30 years to be identified and medically recognized. Communicate dangerous conditions and situations reporting unsafe practices incidents, is a critical process to avoid injuries and the development of a disease related with a professional activity.

DESCRIPTORS

• Understand the definition of  workplace;
• Discuss work accidents and occupational diseases statistics in a critical way taking into account the different causes and consequences;
• Illustrate the consequences of work accidents and occupational diseases;
• Be able to deliver the required OSH students learning expectations;
• To reflect on the OSH impact on students;
• To know how to act when an accident/fatal injury happens;
• Find what are the recognized professional diseases, related to teaching activity;
• Increase self awareness and responsibility towards hazards situations.

OBJECTIVE

• Conclude that preventive measures are the most effective way to eliminate or reduce the hazards

GUIDING QUESTION

• How can we reduce workplace hazards to minimize professional risk exposure?

KEY IDEIAS

• When thinking about hazards in the workplace or activity related risks, many people especially imagine dangerous occupations like mining or construction; few people think about the dangers that are present in occupations like, office work, or service sector jobs. However, a hazard can result in great damage for health.
• There are different categories of hazards, according to their nature and effects, however it is important to know that hazards interact among each other in the workplace environment and only became risks, according to human exposure, during the exercise of a specific professional activity. That is why each work context as to be known and seen like a system to choose what are the best and more effective to control hazards.

DESCRIPTORS

• Define and identify common workplace hazards;
• Describe the workplace context teaching activity conditions in School;
• Describe the effects of workplace hazards;
• Recognize/Know the meaning of hazards warning and safety signs;
• Participate in a critical way;
• Propose different ways of reducing hazards in specific workplaces;
• Apply correctly safety procedures to control specific workplace hazards.

OBJECTIVE

• Relate the impact of preventive measures in workplace safety and wellness improving.

GUIDING QUESTIONS

• What are the employer’s responsibilities?
• What can we think of that might prevent an accident from happening again?
• Who is responsible for OSH at school?

ESSENTIAL IDEIAS

• Employers must keep the workplace safe for workers. The best way to control a hazard is to eliminate it completely. Although, this can be not possible, so it is critical to assess the risks to know better ways to reduce the probability of occurrence of an accident or occupational disease.
• If you cannot completely remove or control an hazard in the workplace or keep it away from the workers, good safety policies and managerial measures can reduce their exposure to the risks, such as training the workers on how to do their jobs in a safe way, despite the hazards, or organize time schedules and breaks to avoid and reduce tiredness.
• Personal protective equipment is the least effective way to control hazards; however workers should use it, whenever employer gives it to them.

DESCRIPTORS

• Define each one and order the prevention principles according to the hierarchy of controls;
• Participate performing a role play activity to elaborate and
• Compare each control benefits;
• Elaborate (in critical way) on a risk assessment tool example;
• Valuing legal duties on the use of protective equipment and its required measures;
• Identify emergencies at work;
• Find collaborative solutions to reduce and control hazards identified.

OBJECTIVES

• Positioning OSH in the education system (legal frameworks, policy and strategy);
• Identify facilitators and barriers to promote the development of  OSH competences in the existing educational practices;
• Plan OSH class activities to promote OSH awareness among students.

GUIDING QUESTIONS

• What students need to know about OSH?
• What should be the teacher’s role as an OSH learning facilitator?

ESSENTIAL IDEAS

• Occasionally everyone should work, one day. Young workers are especially exposed at risk and occupational injuries. Many young people believe that, when you get injured at work, it is “bad luck”; or “it is your fault”, however reality might be quite different.  Often they are unaware of the dangers and hazards posed by some tasks or equipment.
• Labor laws that protect young people are in some cases different from those who apply to adults, like other specific laws to specific groups of workers with specific needs (pregnant, older workers, persons with disabilities, etc.).
• These and other OSH issues can be interconnected with other competences, and contexts, according to different subjects programs and introduced in the teaching practice, adequate to student´s needs.

DESCRIPTORS

• Share own prior knowledge, experiences  and ideas about competences to facilitate OSH learning
• Relate competences objectives and concepts of occupational health and safety, with  their disciplinary area programs;
• Discuss ways to encourage students to overlook to their responsibilities in protecting themselves and keeping the workplace safe;
• Define priorities to integrate the previous/rebuilt OSH competences in the  teaching practice;
• Choose different approaches to OSH in teacher's own subject according specific student needs;
• Reflect on different pedagogical methods/strategies, adjusting specific characteristics of students and OSH learning goals.

OBJECTIVES

• Draw a plan for a project related to OSH awareness at school with future steps for promoting learning on OSH issues.
• Clarify the importance of OSH competences in the professional/learning context.
• Reflect on OSH awareness practice activities, impact with students at school.

GUIDING QUESTIONS

• How can we WORK TOGETHER to create a Health and Safety positive culture at school?
• What are the most important things you learned about OSH?
• How will you use what you have learned?

ESSENTIAL IDEIAS

• The school is a workplace with many hazards and activity risks. Occupational Health and Safety, Risk Education and Health Promotion follow common goals and use similar approaches and strategies, to stimulate collaborative problem solving that concerns to all members of educational community and should be everyone’s responsibility.
• Students need to be aware of the importance of OSH in their present and future lives and Teachers are key elements to increase and improve learning contexts focused on students by motivating them, to build their knowledge, develop creative thinking, to solve problems in different areas of their active life.

DESCRIPTORS

• Demonstrate motivation to introduce practice changes and experiences sharing about OSH awareness in the classroom;
• Improve the quality of learning by developing and rebuilding new competences;
• Assume the role of a facilitator of collaboration with other actors bringing OSH to school daily activities;
• Use inclusive approaches/resources of learning OSH.

• Occupational Health and Safety concepts contextualized with the curricular subject, like: workplace, hazard and risk concepts;
• Occupational hazards and risks;
• Occupational risks,  preventive and corrective measures (integrated, organizational, collective and individual);
• The consequences of occupational accidents and diseases at: social, cultural, economical and personal level;
• General principles of occupational risks prevention;
• Risk assessment;
• Best practice in safety procedures;
• Health and Safety at Work national legislation: legal basis for employers/employees;
• Health and Safety at work stakeholders.

• Clarify definitions of workplace, hazard and risk;
• Promote Health and Safety at Work learning in curricular units both in an integrated vision;
• Develop different pedagogical strategies, adjusting the specific characteristic of students and OSH learning goals;
• Illustrate the general principles of occupational risk prevention;
• Explain the role individual and organizational factors play in the risk prevention;
• Promote critical and creative thinking to discuss Health and Safety at work issues;
• Integrate digital technologies and other learning resources in a safer, inclusive and adapted way, considering specific characteristics of students.

• Mutual respect and cooperation;
• Initiative and proactivity in the communication and identification of hazardous conditions;
• Self-awareness and responsibility towards hazards situations;
• Disposition for critical thinking about Health and Safety at work issues;
• Active and collaborative participation in the development of solutions for health and safety at work problems.