Young workers constitute a high risk population with respect to occupational health and safety (OHS). They are exposed to significantly more physical and organizational constraints and sustain more accidents than do older workers.

The Seoul Declaration on occupational health and safety
- encourages continuous measures to create and enhance a culture of prevention;
- recognizes the importance of education and training in prevention and is addressed to employers and workers.

The International Social Security Association’s Section on Education and Training for Prevention has played a leading role in thinking about how to integrate occupational health and safety into teaching, training and entry into the workforce under the theme “from school to work.”

The three international texts developed and adopted by the Section form a coherent whole and set forth a concrete process to foster consideration of occupational health and safety as it applies to youth:

• The Québec Protocol  guides the relevant organizations and government departments in integrating occupational health and safety skills into vocational and technical teaching and training;
• The Berlin Declaration  lays out a three-step strategy:
  • health education
  • OHS teaching and training
  • reception and orientation of youth and new employees

• The Lisbon Charter  specifies the modalities for the orientation and support of youth or new employees in matters of occupational health and safety.

 

The objectives of education and training in prevention are to

• make all citizens, and in particular, all workers, more aware of the risks they incur or contribute to creating for themselves and others;
• build capacity to participate in risk prevention.

 

The principles that foster the maintenance and development of a culture of prevention are

• the acquisition of OHS skills during the education process;
• a regular evaluation of these acquired skills;
• the need for exemplary practices in occupational health and safety during training and within the enterprise;
• conformance to standards and regulations applicable to material, equipment and the environment.

 

The principle of partnership

Integrating OHS into educational systems and vocational training implies pooling the human, technical and financial means that are spread out among a number of institutions, organizations and government departments. The principle of partnership enables the role and commitments of each institutional actor responsible for prevention and those responsible for education to be clarified, and thus guarantees the durability of activities decided by common accord. These partnerships also require the cooperation of businesses that constitute the work environment.

 

Activities of the Section on Education and Training for Prevention

The International Social Security Association’s Section on Education and Training for Prevention commits itself to promoting these general principles for the development of a culture of prevention from school to work with its members and all relevant organizations, institutions, professional branches and government departments.

Therefore it

• promotes and supports national, regional or local agreements between relevant institutions and organizations;
• assists the government agencies of different countries by providing its expertise in integrating prevention into teaching, vocational training and business;
• draws up a progress report during international events.

 

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