The WHO Platform OpenWHO developed a course for health workers who work under challenging or difficult conditions related to COVID-19. In this pandemic health workers are exposed to many different occupational risks to...
Category - Psychosocial
MOOC: Occupational Health in Developing Countries
Occupational Health in developing countries is a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) provided by the website Future Learn. Through this website you can sign in for this present course. Following the course enables you to...
Violence in the workplace
‘Workplace violence is a serious issue that affects all business sectors and occupations and the safety and security of every employee and employer. This course is offered FREE of charge by CCOHS to promote the...
Occupational Health Safety in Agriculture, Basic Occupational Health Services for informal work in India
Occupational Health, Safety in Agriculture is part of a series of 24 modules on Basic Occupational Health Services (BOHS) for informal work. This distance learning module is developed by the Indian Association of...
Virtual Patients: Lower Back Pain
This Virtual Patients lesson concerns the situation of three workers, coming from Brazil, Chile and Germany, who all suffer from low backpain. During the lesson information is given about all the causing factors of low...
Mental health at work: awareness
This short lesson, designed for employers, managers, supervisors and front-line employees, teaches about mental health at work. It describes the impact of mental illness, the difference between mental illness and...
Violence in the workplace: awareness
This short lesson presents examples of the broad area of workplace violence, and the possible sources: which persons can be involved. In addition, the situations (physical and situational) of increased risk are shortly...
Ergonomics essentials
This course gives insight into the relation between the working human and his/her workplace, tools, handling of materials, and environment. It will deal with all those aspects that make work easier, more healthy and...
General introduction to occupational health. Module 1: Occupational hygiene
This module is the first of a two year course for the Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health. It teaches the principles of Occupational Hygiene at an academic level. It will provide knowledge to become familiar...