OSH literacy has developed, or is currently developing, outreach projects in Europe, Africa, The Middle East and Asia. We work with NGOs, education and training providers, business partners and other stakeholders to promote best practice in OSH communications and training. We will soon be able to publish our range of books and training materials and we are working to develop digital resources too.
Basic OSH training and qualifications can greatly increase a person’s long and short-term health, wellbeing, economic and social mobility prospects. Through our training programs, over the years we have established that equipping learners with basic OSH literacy skills enables and empowers them to access and utilise safety and health information and services to reduce risk.
Free OSH literacy training for at-risk young people in Southeast Asia:
Training hospitality trainees in South-East Asia. These young people have been given vocational training by NGOs. OSH literacy delivers free, internationally certificated training to at-risk groups, NGOs and non-profit educational institutions. To have recognised OSH certificates and training greatly increases employability and mobility prospects. These trainees are holding certificates in First-Aid, Fire-Safety, Workplace Health and Safety and Food Hygiene (see courses).
Many trainers, teachers and volunteers have gaps with OSH literacy skills and also in educating and training OSH to persons who may have Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND – including low levels of English). We have trained and continue to train teachers and trainers from the voluntary and corporate sector. As well as the basic Train-The-Trainer courses, the OSH literacy Certificate in Effective and Inclusive OSH Communications helps stakeholders to comply with their legal and moral obligations to make OSH communications Accessible-To-All. It also is good for the resume as OSH training is a legal requirement in most countries and we, OSH literacy.org, offer FREE training!
Free training and accreditation for trainers and teachers working with at-risk young people in S.E. Asia.
On-site and classroom-based training for H.R. and safety-officers working with migrant construction-workers in the Middle East. We do not accept payments, but we can accept donations to help pay for travel, food and accommodation expenses.
Free First-Aid training and certification for volunteers, who work with migrant domestic workers in the Middle East:
We regularly speak and present posters etc., at major international OSH, education and literacy conferences: The World Congress for safety & Health, ENETOSH, ISSA and the World Literacy Summit at Oxford University. David has also written and published numerous articles on OSH literacy for various OSH, education, social and industry journals and we have a Wikipedia entry – have a look. Occupational safety and health literacy – Wikipedia
Planned Projects 2024/25: We are excited that our range of educational and training books, as well as the long-awaited OSH literacy handbook, should be available early next year. We are also working on developing a learning app and an online OSH literacy learning platform.
Projects: 2023/24: We were extremely proud and honoured to be invited back to speak about OSH literacy at the World Literacy Summit, Oxford University, April 2023 and to be asked to present a poster at the OSH World Congress in Sydney, Australia, November 2023, as well as the ICOH World Conference and ASSP conference in 2024, so far. We are also extremely proud and happy that the ISO published its Plain Language Guidelines on the 20th of June 2023, which we have been campaigning for a very long time as well as the publication of an OSH literacy page on Wikipedia. We are currently working with our partners in Africa, Asia, Europe and the U.S., to develop a number of projects. We always welcome collaboration proposals and suggestions. However, due to work, study, financial and family commitments, our main focus will be on continuing to get OSH literacy recognized and taught in schools as the fourth (4th) essential functional skill alongside Numeracy, ICT and English.
We are currently collating all our learning resources to make them available on-line and in hard copy, which we hope will be available this year.
2019/2020 OSH literacy, ENETOSH, OSH Africa and the CIEH: Many thanks to the UK’s Chartered Institute of Environmental Health for donating 18,000 OSH training and resource books to OSH literacy and special thanks to ENETOSH for facilitating their distribution. The books and resources will go to our partners: OSH Africa. They will be distributed throughout the continent. Dave will then train trainers and teachers on how to use these valuable resources most effectively.
First-Aid and Effective and Inclusive training for swimming-instructors in Cambodia (delayed due to the pandemic):Preventable drowning is a big killer of young people in Southeast Asia. Several NGOs are developing swimming programmes for at-risk groups. In Cambodia OSH literacy will train volunteers in Emergency First-Aid and Basic Life-Support so that they can gain international accreditation as swim instructors. We will also train instructors on how to effectively communicate training to different types and levels of learners.