Season Greetings from OSHA
What is your New Year’s resolution?
As we get ready to ring in 2020, it’s a moment for reflection: at EU-OSHA, we are looking back on a 25th year filled with awareness raising and research activities – the results of our continuous efforts to help improve working conditions in Europe.
Thanks to our engaged network of national focal points, social partners, campaign partners and other stakeholders, our message promoting a culture of risk prevention has been widely multiplied in 2019.
And here is what we all have learnt: joint commitment paves the way for safer, healthier and more productive workplaces. An achievable New Year's resolution.
With my best wishes to all our partners, colleagues and friends for a Happy, Safe and Healthy New Year!
Christa Sedlatschek, Executive Director
The Safety4El project will be presented at the EfVET 2019 conference on the Azores
The project will be presented at two roundtables:
The presentation will demonstrate how the Safety4El project (Safety4El KA202-2016-016), which is working on improving safety for electricians, has made use of CALL as part of the safety training.
Safety4El makes extensive use of a platform, Clilstore (being further developed by COOL KA2-2018-1-ES01-KA203-050474, a new EC co-funded project), which links all words in a text to dictionaries covering 118 languages, see example: http://multidict.net/cs/4711
It will be demonstrated how a teacher in a few minutes can create online units in the new Clilstore, see an example/ appetizer of how Clilstore has been used in a class https://youtu.be/t9sAr6f2aLA.
The presentation will share experiences learned from combining CLIL scaffolding as part of content teaching to cater for students (e.g. with an immigrant background) finding abstract vocabulary a barrier to understanding the content.
More information on:
Safety4El: www.safety4el.net
COOL: www.languages.dk
Clilstore: www.multidict.net
OSH: Occupational Safety and Health News – Europe
Improving safety for electricians and other workers in the construction industry
Safety4electricians is a project based on a partnership between Denmark, Spain, Cyprus, Great Britain and Malta to improve safety for workers in the construction industry.
The project aims to encourage mobility and safety training in the sector by developing an Open Educational Resource with interactive materials, cases for training risk assessment, and a large volume of multiple-choice questions on work safety.
Learn more by exploring the project website , available in five languages.
Meet the Safety4El coordinator at Eurocall in Louvain-la-Neuve on August 28th
Kent Andersen will demonstrate how the Safety4El project (Safety4El KA202-2016-016), which is working on improving safety for electricians, has made use of CALL as part of the safety training.
Safety4El makes extensive use of a platform, Clilstore (being further developed by COOL KA2-2018-1-ES01-KA203-050474, a new EC co-funded project), which links all words in a text to dictionaries covering 118 languages, see example: http://multidict.net/cs/4711
It will be demonstrated how a teacher in a few minutes can create online units in the new Clilstore, see an example/ appetizer of how Clilstore has been used in a class https://youtu.be/t9sAr6f2aLA.
The presentation will share experiences learned from combining CLIL scaffolding as part of content teaching to cater for students (e.g. with an immigrant background) finding abstract vocabulary a barrier to understanding the content.
More information on:
Safety4El: www.safety4el.net/
COOL: www.languages.dk
Clilstore: www.multidict.net
Gwida għall-Kurrikulu/Kors
The UK partner, Russell Tucker from Bridgwater-Taunton College, has finished the Curriculum Course Guide. The guide is available in the five project languages. Go to "For Teachers" to download the guide.
Earn Safety4El badges
From http://www.safety4el.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=3 the project now offers eleven badges for our users:
-General Health & Safety at Work: The badge is awarded for passing both General Health & Safety at Work “Test Part One” and “Test part Two” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Manual Handling Operations: The badge is awarded for passing both Manual Handling Operations “Test Part One” and “Test part Two” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Reporting Accidents: The badge is awarded for passing both Reporting Accidents “Test Part One” and “Test part Two” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Personal Protective Equipment at Work: The badge is awarded for passing both Personal Protective Equipment at Work “Test Part One” and “Test part Two” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Health and Hygiene: The badge is awarded for passing both Health and Hygiene “Test Part One” and “Test part Two” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Fire and Emergency: The badge is awarded for passing both Fire and Emergency “Test Part One” and “Test part Two” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Work at Height: The badge is awarded for passing both Work at Height “Test Part One” and “Test part Two” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Work Equipment : The badge is awarded for passing both Work Equipment “Test Part One” and “Test part Two” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Site Hazards: The badge is awarded for passing the Special Site Hazards “Test” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Electrotechnical: The badge is awarded for passing both Electrotechnical “Test Part One” and “Test part Two” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
-Environmental: The badge is awarded for passing the Environmental “Test” with a minimum of 85% correct answers.
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4th project meeting, Paola September 25th and 26th 2018
The teams met in Paola, Malta for the 4th project meeting. The core content was:
- Schedule updates
- Quality control and monitoring
- Policy making and exploitation
- Ensure that all teams know their tasks and responsibilities
Working on a scaffold
A video where you can watch an electrician who is going to work on a scaffold, wearing protective gear. He tries to take certain safety measures but in the absence of the right equipment he takes temporary measures which can be fatal. The video was recorded by the Maltese team in the Safety4El project. Link to the video: https://youtu.be/JOqNoiY-Crc
Safe Isolation – a Virtual Reality case
This VR (Virtual Reality) case study will enable the learners to view and interact with the working environments in the safety of the classroom environment.
Learners should explore at their own pace giving them greater depth of the working environment than traditional resources such as posters, hand-outs and books.
How to watch the VR video:
- On a computer you can use the mouse to move around the room.
- On Tablets and Smartphones. The use of hand held mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads or similar devices will give a better result with the ability to use the real time motion tracking sensors. You can download VR viewing apps from Google Play or APP Store
Go to the video: https://youtu.be/w5Uum3PPOps