Health and Safety at Work

EfVET has established cooperation with EU-OSHA (the European Union information agency for occupational safety and health) with the main goal of raising awareness among the VET community regarding preventive workplace culture and ensure a safe transition into the professional workplace.

According to EU-OSHA, creating a workplace culture of prevention within enterprises is key to ensuring a safe and healthy working environment. Therefore, young workers entering the workplace for the first time need to be aware of its importance to keep both themselves and others safe.

EU-OSHA has already developed several initiatives to mainstream OSH into Education/Youth. With the goal of raising awareness of the importance of OSH to Vocational Schools in the EU and EEA countries, a new project -OSHVET- has been put in place aiming at providing teachers and students with easy access to existing practical OSH information and useful contacts at national and regional levels.

EFVET has joined EU-OSHA in the pilot phase of the OSHVET project and has been, since, collaborating, promoting the liaison between VET providers and the National Focus Points of OSH in the different Member Estates.

Several resources have been developed and are available for VET schools in the EU-OSHA website and among different initiatives that may be of interest for VET Schools: