The Lisbon Charter

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The Lisbon Charter

• A strategy for training and accompanying young
  employees to raise their awareness of
  occupational safety and health

Lothar Szych Vice-president of ISSA Section on
Education and Training for Prevention Chairman of
the board of German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV Düsseldorf, 5.11.2009
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The ISSA Section onEducation and Training for
Prevention

• set itself two objectives when it was first
  established in1991
• to promote education, training and teaching as
  strategic components of preventive action.
• to provide all partners involved in prevention
  with a forum for exchanging ideas and discussing
  educational approaches to prevention.
• These objectives have since been pursued at
  various stages of education and training.

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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A three-step strategy

• To foster a prevention culturefrom school to
  work
• The Quebec Protocol on vocational and technical
  training - 2003
• The Berlin Declaration with the three-step
  strategy school vocational training start of
  working life - 2006
• The Lisbon Charter supporting both young people
  at the start of their careers and new employees -
  2009

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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A three-step strategy(Quebec-Berlin-Lisbon)
From school From school From school From school From school ...to work ...to work
primary school general education higher education higher education higher education integration life-long learning 
primary school general education general or higher education general or higher education temporaryseasonaljobs integration life-long learning 
primary school vocational training vocational training vocational training work placement integration life-long learning 
primary school work-based vocational training work-based vocational training work-based vocational training work-based vocational training integration life-long learning 
primary school no no qualifications qualifications integration
Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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Quebec Protocol (2003)

• The Quebec Protocol focussed on the integration
  of occupational safety and health in (vocational)
  training
• It defines the principles and requirements
• the cooperation of those responsible for both
  training and prevention, and other partners
• to integrate specific measures
• One aim of the Section on Education and Training
  for Prevention has been to encourage compliance
  with the principles of the Quebec Protocol.

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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Berlin Declaration (2006)

• The Berlin Declaration proposed a strategy for
  occupational safety and health from school to
  work. This focussed on three groups
• school children
• young people in vocational training
• young and new employees in companies
• with the aim of raising their awareness of risks
  and enabling them to prevent these risks.

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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Lisbon Charter (2009)

• Current situation
• The frequency of workplace accidents is
  significantly higher among employees under 25
  than amongst older employees
• Most accidents occur during the first few months
• Young people in training or at the start of their
  career often fail to correctly assess risk in the
  workplace and to respond appropriately, due to
  their inexperience and lack of knowledge
• This applies to almost every country

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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Aim of the Lisbon Charter

• To foster a culture of occupational risk
  prevention among young people right from their
  very first contact with the world of work through
  a programme of introduction, support and training

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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Lisbon Charter

• Requirements
• Participating organisations are committed to
  introducing a strategy to prevent occupational
  safety and health risks by
• making use of existing tools (e.g. risk
  assessment, risk management) and
• providing appropriate training for young or new
  employees

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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Charter of Lisbon

• This approach is to be implemented by
• education and training programmes on safety and
  health in the workplace (starting from the new
  employees' existing level of knowledge)
• providing appropriately trained personnel
• actively engaging employees including the new
  ones in the process (seeing new, young
  employees not just a "consumers", but as players)

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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The Charters target group

• are those responsible for new employees
• in companies (employers, training supervisors)
• in training and educational institutions
  (training supervisors, school teachers)
• in organisations (unions, supervisory bodies)

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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Promoting the implementation of the Charter

• The Charter completes the objectives of the
  Quebec Protocol and the Berlin Declaration by
  providing
• a strategy to welcome and accompany new employees
  
• a programme of education and training
• It calls upon everyone to raise awareness of the
  objectives and issues in their own country and to
  provide examples of good practice
• The Section will then publish these examples on
  the website

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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ISSA Section for Education and Training

• Lothar SzychVice-Chairman of ISSA section for
  Education and Training Institut für
  Weiterbildung und systematische
  BeratungEisenbahnstrasse 27 dDE-48341
  ALTENBERGEGERMANY
• http//www.issa.int/aiss/About-ISSA/International-
  Prevention-Sections/Section-for-Education-and-Trai
  ning/

Lothar Szych - German Social Accident Insurance
DGUV, ILO conference, AA 2009, 05.11.2009
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