Abstract
The institution of specific Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) training programs open to international trainees from developing countries in some European, American and Asian universities is now a well-established reality. Courses and seminars that focus particularly on this subject, widely varying in approach and duration, have been held for years at these universities; these academic institutions have combined their potential to attract students from developing countries with the scheduling of interesting lectures and training activities, depending on the availability of funds sufficient to cover travel and lodging costs. Interdisciplinarity is the key to the entire program and is its main strength, as the trainees have the opportunity to condense the technical notions and methodological aspects of different disciplines (occupational health, industrial hygiene, safety management, ergonomics) in one course. We firmly believe that these programs are a precious instrument for the training of occupational health professionals from low-income countries, as they are able to address their choices correctly, hopefully achieving the goal of reducing the human costs of development.
Highlights
The institution of specific Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) training programs open to international trainees from developing countries in some European, American and Asian universities is a well-established reality
Courses and seminars that focus on this subject, widely varying in approach and duration, have been held for years at these universities; these academic institutions have combined their potential to attract students from developing countries with the scheduling of interesting lectures and training activities, depending on the availability of funds sufficient to cover travel and lodging costs. This allows many trainees to overcome the income gap existing between developing and developed countries, which would otherwise be an insurmountable obstacle. The objective of these courses is to increase the number of occupational health professionals and the quality of their training in low-income countries, in order to contribute to an improvement of the working conditions in such countries, at least where the knowledge and awareness of the best practices and solutions can be useful even if not associated with great expenses and investments, being sufficient in any case to decrease the workers’ exposure to certain workplace hazards [1, 2]
The direct consequence of such an approach would be to assume that the training of occupational health professionals working in developing countries is totally useless, given that most of the required worker safety measures are too expensive and inapplicable
Summary
The institution of specific Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) training programs open to international trainees from developing countries in some European, American and Asian universities is a well-established reality. The objective of these courses is to increase the number of occupational health professionals and the quality of their training in low-income countries, in order to contribute to an improvement of the working conditions in such countries, at least where the knowledge and awareness of the best practices and solutions can be useful even if not associated with great expenses and investments, being sufficient in any case to decrease the workers’ exposure to certain workplace hazards [1, 2].
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