Creating An Applicable Curriculum on Occupational Safety and Health for Occupational Safety and Health Professionals Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creating An Applicable Curriculum on Occupational Safety and Health for Occupational Safety and Health Professionals

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Integration of refugees; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The Contect of the project: Occupational health and safety is one of the most important and discussed titles in social politics of European Union. Even though number of occupational accidents decreased by 1994, number of accidents is still high. Increase in number of accidents still rapidly continues in some member states and certain sectors. This case indicates that in member states actors of working life could not adopt and understand exactly the protectionist approach which is included in society directives related to occupational health and safety. Occupational health and safety has become one the basic title in European Union’s social politics by free movement of employees. This case made formation of common training content in training curriculums for occupational health and safety and increasing consciousness and awareness level mandatory.
The objective of the project: Maintaining mutual information and experience exchange of lecturers who instruct in occupational health and safety program, reinforcing their professional competency, and formation of common teaching education curriculum within framework of EU criteria for this field are aimed in this program. Informational meetings which held by project partners at local level provided to take the attention of workforce market to occupational health and safety subjects and awareness created. In addition, one of the sub-objectives of the project was to create consciousness and involve awareness in occupational health and safety so in long term that asylum seekers and refugees can be prevented from being exposed to precarious working conditions.
Target groups were the refugee and temporary asylum seekers, professional, academic, business actors, university students and occupational health and safety professionals. We had four transnational partners. UNM FHS from Slovenia is a higher education institution in the field of health care, they have primarily contributed to the project with our competencies in the field of research and occupational health knowledge. FEVEC from Spain carried out training actions in the construction sector and OHS sector, especially for active and unemployed workers. FEVEC as a construction expert, has contributed to the project providing its knowledge and expertise in this area. WSBINOZ from Poland as a higher education institution WSBiNoZ used its extensive contacts in the local labor market in order to obtain contacts with OHS specialists working on a daily basis in many different thematic areas. ARDA from German as private sector partner, they contributed to the IOs preparation like the other partners and disseminated the outputs to companies like Siemens, and also cooperated with specialists in this field from the universities.
The Results and Outputs of the Project:
* Curricular studies: Germany, Spain, Slovenia and Poland realization of occupational health and safety programs.
* Need analysis report for OHS vocational definitions of each parners.
* An applicable curriculum on Occupational Health and Safety for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals.
* E-learning environment/Platform for OHS: Four OHS Videos of each partners (www.mepohs.com)
* Mobile Application for OHS. (MEPOHS)
* Dissemination of the project in the different social networks.
* Dissemination of the mobile application for OHS.
* 2 Multiplier events
* By means of the web page, mobile applications, e-learning, social media accounts, etc., the knowledge of the refugee and temporary asylum seekers, students and trainees realized as 5000 beneficiaries with multiplier effect.
* 5 Transnational Project Meetings
* A Policy Recommendation Report for OHS policy makers
* Approximately 1000 students who are trained in OHS field Earning
* A protocol between Gaziantep University and The Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Services to increase cooperation under OHS.
Impact and Sustainability: The aim of the faculty members in the occupational health and safety program is to exchange mutual knowledge and experience, to strengthen their professional competence and to create a common curriculum in the framework of EU criteria in this field. In this way, the professional competencies of the lecturers teaching occupational health and safety have been strengthened and the students with better quality knowledge and skills have been provided and will continue to be provided with a reduction in their workforce skills and occupational accidents. In the Member States, we have contributed to the improvement of the work carried out on occupational health and safety, which is the main title of the European Union’s social policies. In addition, the protocols signed between the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services and our university strengthened the impact of the project. At the same time, it became sustainable with the trainings to be held within the scope of the protocols.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 166530,04 Eur

Project Coordinator

GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• FEDERACION VALENCIANA DE EMPRESARIOS DE LA CONSTRUCCION
• WYZSZA SZKOLA BIZNESU I NAUK O ZDROWIU
• ARDA Beratung & Bildung GmbH
• Fakulteta za zdravstvene vede Novo mesto