Occupational Health Courses

Best practices in age management embrace organizational level actions, such as age-friendly HR-policy together with individual level career management approach, e.g. enhancing employees’ preparedness to manage their own career...

Musculoskeletal disorders such as back and neck-shoulder pain is a major problem in the working environment and is associated with reduced work ability and sickness absence. Physical exercise at the workplace..

Self-reported assessments of physical demands are mainly too vague. It is often necessary to improve precision. This course presents technical methods for assessment of physical activities and bodily postures.

Occupational Respiratory Diseases – Prevention and Risk Factors Occupational respiratory diseases (asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, different pulmonary fibrosis and rhinitis) are still important and prevalent occupationally caused diseases. Prevention…

Effectiveness of Occupational Health and Safety Enforcement Tools for Preventing Occupational Hazards and Diseases - The rates of occupational injuries and work-related diseases are still unacceptably high worldwide.

Bullying and harassment at work is widely recognized as a serious safety and health problem in working life. As a result of over three decades of research, a substantial body…

This course looks into cognitive and other aspects of the digitalization of work with specific focus on the roles of labour inspection services and employers in contributing to sound work environments.

Psychosocial Occupational Epidemiology This course introduces participants to the concept, methodology, application and challenges of psychosocial epidemiology in general and psychosocial occupational epidemiology in particular. We will address psychological, social,…

This course will provide an overview of digitization of work as a profound socio-technical transformation and the possibilities and threats digitization brings to workplace. The course will also..

Substitution of many substances of concern can be easier when you know the basic concepts of alternative assessment and substitution. The course introduces into these principles and into the available tools to support the substitution of hazardous substances at work places.