Guide for the mainstreaming Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in vocational training programmes.
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ILO
The International Labour Organization is the tripartite U.N. agency that promotes Decent Work through employment, social security, labour standards and social dialogue. Its work on skills development is guided by the conceptual framework on Skills to improve productivity, employment growth, and development agreed in 2008 by representatives of Governments, Employers’ Associations and Workers’ Associations. Research, policy advice, and pilot projects and technical cooperation programmes to apply good practices in different circumstances across its 185 member States aims to boost the employability of workers, the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, and the inclusiveness of economic growth. The ILO Secretariat in offices in 40 countries works with Ministries of Labour, employers’ organizations, and trade unions to integrate skills development into national and sector development strategies in order to better meet current labour market needs and to prepare for the jobs of the future; to expand access to employment-related training so that youth, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are better able to acquire skills and secure productive and decent work; and to improve the ability of public employment services to provide career guidance, maintain labour exchange services, and deliver active labour market programmes.For more information regarding the ILO’s work on skills and employability go to: http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang--en/index.htm; for ILO/Cinterfor's Knowledge Management Plarform, see: http://www.oitcinterfor.org
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Culinary arts
The global Project “Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy Workers -- Safe Youth@Work Project”, executed by the ILO and funded by the US Department of Labor, pursues among its main components: mainstreaming OSH in vocational training programmes, awareness raising of vulnerability of young workers and enhancing the technical capacities of labour inspectors to better identify the occupational risks faced by youth at work.
In this framework, ILO/Cinterfor is responsible for implementing the Project component related to OSH in vocational training in Uruguay and as a learning outcome of the implementation of the Project in the country, this guide was defined with the purpose of being a valuable tool for the entire region.
The guidelines and solutions that are presented here are the result of observation, analysis and reflection upon the experience carried out by the training institution, FISE, in the culinary field. It is actually a cooking training course that was selected by INEFOP to implement this pilot experience within the Project. It is a training proposal aimed at workers under unemployment insurance benefits (both men and women), who have completed primary education, which may include young people over 18, although it is not an exclusive requirement. The proposal is oriented to the culinary sector in general and, in particular, at healthy food, that is, for those who must follow a certain nutritional regimen due to suffering pathologies such as hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol, obesity, celiac disease, etc.
The course was selected based on successful criteria in terms of results (good performance in general of the training institution) and the demand by the labour market and the young audience. Indeed, although this training institution also offers bakery and confectionery courses, priority was given to the culinary course since it is the most demanded by the market and by young people.