Projects funded 2008

Technical Safety Training - Developing and New Accession Countries

Funding will help deliver a range of technical safety training courses for health and safety practitioners working in labour inspectorates and employee or employer representative bodies in developing and new accession countries. Current training available in these countries doesn't cover the technical detail needed to tackle risk reduction in developing industries. Courses will be run first in Turkey and Georgia.

Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) Training

Funding will help distribute new LEV course material, developed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)/Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL), for trainers and advisers. Experienced professional development trainers will receive briefing from HSE, customise the training material and deliver it through a series of training sessions to our members, so that they can share key messages in their workplaces.  

Recruitment of experts for the International Labour Organization (ILO) Encyclopaedia of Occupational Safety and Health; 5th Edition

Working with the ILO, funding will help recruit experts to write, edit and peer review the 5th Edition of the ILO's Encyclopaedia of Occupational Safety and Health. This encyclopaedia will, for the first time, give a completely free, electronic, up-to-date, accurate and user-friendly information resource that's understandable by millions of people and freely available anywhere in the world.

Launch of National Men's Health Week 2008 – Men and Work

Funding sponsored the Men and Work launch event which features a mock court case where a man is put 'on trial' for his poor health. The theme of the 2008 national men's health week promoted the use of the workplace to deliver positive health messages to men and encourages them to take their health more seriously.

For more information on the launch event of the National Men's Health Week 2008, visit their website.

The Role of Safety and Health Practitioners in Supporting Health at Work and Return to Work

This project is supported by the Department of Work and Pensions and looks at the feasibility and impact of enhancing the safety and health practitioner's role in supporting health at work and return to work. We're designing a short course to build on the existing skills of practitioners, so that they can play an active role in the management of health at work and can help in the return to work process.

Identifying the Occupational Health and Safety Gaps in the Third Level Education Sector

Together with the Health and Safety Authority in Ireland we're jointly funding this project to assess how much health and safety is included in vocational education. The project aims to develop a way of integrating health and safety into engineering programmes.