ICT: new learning methods for health and safety at work


Abstract

The success factors of any policy on Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) depend on the effectiveness and efficiency of the communication channels and tools used to achieve all the stakeholders. Today even in OSH sector the new communication channels such as Internet, online applications and social networks can represent a wide range of tools which could making more appropriate communicative and information processes and training. On  the last July the New Protocol State Regions 2016, related to the duration and minimum content of the training courses for managers and staff of the Prevention and Protection Service (RSPP/ ASPP) in Italian OSH sector, has expanded the use of the teaching and learning methodology online, better defying technical, organizational and managerial requirements. The use of ICT is becoming more and more an important precondition for access to information and opportunities for personal, professional and business advance and progress.