Deadline for application: 23 January 2021

Distance-learning Course on Occupational Safety and Health (English)

The course is intended for OSH trainers and advisers belonging to governmental, employers' and workers' organizations involved promoting OSH within enterprises. It may also be of interest to members of professional/ industrial bodies and training institutions involved in OSH issues, and, above all, managers, supervisors and technical staff responsible for OSH within enterprises.

Becoming a safety and health professional requires multidisciplinary training. The OSH profession calls for a broad-based educational background combined with specialized knowledge of the physical sciences (medicine, physics, chemistry and engineering) and the social sciences (behaviour, motivation and communication), together with the principles and concepts of management. Professionals may therefore need to update their competences accordingly. To meet this need, the International Training Centre (ITC) of the International Labour Organization (ILO) is offering a distance-learning course on OSH delivered via an Internet-based platform. The proposed programme will incorporate the ILO's international experience of OSH and the ITCILO's international training methodology.