Give musculoskeletal health to children and young workers
Give musculoskeletal health to children and young workers
Joint Workshop with EU OSHA in Bilbao

EU-OSHA in collaboration with ENETOSH organised a seminar addressing the issue of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among young people and workers. The seminar was organised in the framework of an OSH overview project on MSDs and with a view to the upcoming Healthy Workplaces campaign ‘Lighten the Load’, to start in October 2020.
The event served as an awareness-raising activity on the need to promote good musculoskeletal health at an early age. Participants exchanged ideas in small groups led by experts on four different aspects: research, policy (OSH – ergonomics), practice (mainstreaming OSH into education), and communication (body self-perception).
All attendees participated in expert-led discussions in four small groups and covered the four different perspectives. Each group discussed a number of different questions with the aim of achieving a common result from each perspective, by funnelling down in specifity.
Programme
Give musculoskeletal health to children and young workers
20-21 March 2019, Hotel Carlton, laza Federico Moyúa, 2 – Bilbao
Day 1 – 20 March
Plenary session – moderated by Tim Tregenza and Lorenzo Munar, EU-OSHA
Opening – William Cockburn, EU-OSHA
Trialogue – Ulrike Bollmann, ENETOSH; Gyula Szabó, FEES; Lorenzo Munar,
EU-OSHA
Introduction of the lead experts and workshops:
Therese Hanvold, STAMI, Norway: Musculoskeletal health and young people –
with a research dimension
Helena Lewis-Smith, UWE, United Kingdom: Body self-perception –
with a communications dimension
Diana de Sousa Policarpo, ACT, Portugal: Mainstreaming OSH into education –
with a practical dimension
Gyula Szabó, FEES, Hungary: Ergonomics – with a policy dimension
4 groups of participants in all 4 Workshops, in 4 rounds
Perspective 1: Mainstreaming
Diana de Sousa Policarpo supported by Maria Klotz, DGUV
Perspective 2: Ergonomics
Gyula Szabó
Perspective 3: Research
Therese N. Hanvold
Perspective 4: Communication
Helena Lewis-Smith
Back to Plenary session at the end of day 1
MSDs and education: Preventing musculoskeletal disease among childcare professionals in nursery schools (ErgoKita), Vera Schellewald, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA)
(click on the link for the presentation)
Opening day 2 – Lorenzo Munar
Mainstreaming ergonomics through the life course: The role of education and training, Ulrike Bollmann, Institute for Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IAG)
(click on the link for the presentation)
Presentation of the four outcomes – Tim Tregenza, Katalin Sas, Maurizio Curtarelli, Lorenzo Munar – EU-OSHA
Next steps – Lorenzo Munar
Perspective 1: More pictures from the group work on Mainstreaming
Report by EU OSHA: https://osha.europa.eu
Please click here for a picture gallery of the event.
The event served as an awareness-raising activity on the need to promote good musculoskeletal health at an early age. Participants exchanged ideas in small groups led by experts on four different aspects: research, policy (OSH – ergonomics), practice (mainstreaming OSH into education), and communication (body self-perception).
All attendees participated in expert-led discussions in four small groups and covered the four different perspectives. Each group discussed a number of different questions with the aim of achieving a common result from each perspective, by funnelling down in specifity.
Programme
Give musculoskeletal health to children and young workers
20-21 March 2019, Hotel Carlton, laza Federico Moyúa, 2 – Bilbao
Day 1 – 20 March
Plenary session – moderated by Tim Tregenza and Lorenzo Munar, EU-OSHA

Opening – William Cockburn, EU-OSHA

Trialogue – Ulrike Bollmann, ENETOSH; Gyula Szabó, FEES; Lorenzo Munar,
EU-OSHA

Introduction of the lead experts and workshops:
Therese Hanvold, STAMI, Norway: Musculoskeletal health and young people –
with a research dimension
Helena Lewis-Smith, UWE, United Kingdom: Body self-perception –
with a communications dimension
Diana de Sousa Policarpo, ACT, Portugal: Mainstreaming OSH into education –
with a practical dimension
Gyula Szabó, FEES, Hungary: Ergonomics – with a policy dimension
4 groups of participants in all 4 Workshops, in 4 rounds
Perspective 1: Mainstreaming
Diana de Sousa Policarpo supported by Maria Klotz, DGUV

Perspective 2: Ergonomics
Gyula Szabó

Perspective 3: Research
Therese N. Hanvold

Perspective 4: Communication
Helena Lewis-Smith

Back to Plenary session at the end of day 1
MSDs and education: Preventing musculoskeletal disease among childcare professionals in nursery schools (ErgoKita), Vera Schellewald, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA)
(click on the link for the presentation)

Opening day 2 – Lorenzo Munar
Mainstreaming ergonomics through the life course: The role of education and training, Ulrike Bollmann, Institute for Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IAG)
(click on the link for the presentation)

Presentation of the four outcomes – Tim Tregenza, Katalin Sas, Maurizio Curtarelli, Lorenzo Munar – EU-OSHA

Next steps – Lorenzo Munar

Perspective 1: More pictures from the group work on Mainstreaming
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Report by EU OSHA: https://osha.europa.eu
Please click here for a picture gallery of the event.
How to reach young people
ENETOSH Workshop at A+A

As a follow-up event to the joint EU-OSHA – ENETOSH Workshop in Bilbao on musculoskeletal health for children and young workers in March 2019, the 23rd ENETOSH Network Meeting and Workshop: “How to reach young people?” took place on 7th November 2019 at at A+A 36th International Congress for Occupational Safety and Health in Düsseldorf, Germany.
As some of the members of ENETOSH have been working for more than 15 years on the issue of "How to reach young people" with the topic of occupational safety and health, the ENETOSH held this workshop at A+A specifically on this topic.
Main focus was the "body image" of young people and its impact on their mental and physical health. The workshop took a look at the scientific perspective, but also at practical experiences and examples of good practice.
More than 60 experts attended the workshop and listened to excellent presentations. It was an honor to listen to the great presentation of Ilda Figueiredo as a representative of the Portuguese Ministry of Education. On the education side, the workshop was also attended by a representative of the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), Sarah Lyons, and a representative of the District National Education Directorate from Istanbul, Ayla Besir.

Foto: Basi/Bernd Lauter
To present the main theoretical background via a dialogue between Helena Lewis-Smith, UK, and Peter Paulus, Germany, went more than well. Peter Paulus reminded later in the workshop to take more care for the process of implementation of research and good practice. We may focus on this aspect during the next workshop in Dresden dedicated to physical and mental health for young people.
A first transfer from our minds to our bodies was done by Sigrid Zörgiebel-Schaefer, Germany - Japan. Some participants may have been astonished that we translated our “body talk” directly into a true “body experience”. The process may have been a strong learning experience for most of the participants.
Afterwards a firework of Good practice was displayed: Experiental learning by master students getting involved into two types of work site visits (Mitchel Rosen, US); Interactive tools to address bachelor students with the basics of risk assessment (Lucie Kocurkova, Czech Republic); Small children as researchers on prevention (Heike Brüggemann-Prieshoff and Michael Hauke, Germany); School pupils who build their own school (Kathi Musialek, Austria).
Programme
(Please click the underlined links to open presentations in a new browser window)
Welcome by
Ulrike Bollmann, ENETOSH, Institute for Work and Health of the DGUV, Germany

©Floß/DGUV
Current trends in networking : ENETOSH and more
Tim Tregenza, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU OSHA)

A strategic approach to mainstreaming OSH: The Portuguese case of citizenship education
Ilda Figueiredo, Ministry of Education (DGE), Portugal
Block I: Body image and sensorimotor approach
Moderated by Katharina Musialek, next level consulting, Austria
Evidence-based interventions across school and community settings to promote positive body image
A dialogue between Helena Lewis-Smith, Universität West- England (UWE), UK and
Peter Paulus, Leuphana University - Centre for Applied Health Sciences (ZAG), Germany

Sensation and movement – slipping into one's own body
Sigrid Zörgiebel- Schaefer, Treegonos, Germany

Block II: Experienced based learning on safety and health – Examples of good practice
Moderated by Diana de Sousa Policarpo, Authority for Working Conditions (ACT), Portugal

Work site visits to engage students in their education
Mitchel Rosen, Rutgers School of Public Health, Center for Public Health Workforce Development, USA
Let́s work together
Lucie Kocurkova, Technical University of Ostrava (VSB), Czech Republic

Children research on prevention. Exploring safety and health in kindergarten and elementary school
Michael Hauke & Heike Brüggemann-Prieshoff, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA)
(Poster)

Educational landscapes in motion : Building safe and health improving learning environments
Katharina Musialek, next level consulting, Austria

©Floß/DGUV
Outlook into the future
Ulrike Bollmann, Institute for Work and Health of the DGUV
Tim Tregenza, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU OSHA)
... and some input by the participants:
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Please click here for an interview with Dr Ulrike Bollmann (in German).
Please click here for a picture gallery of the workshop.
With people, about people, for people
ENETOSH Symposium at the XXI World Congress 2017

Symposium 15 ‘People-centred prevention strategies on OSH’ at the XXI World Congress for Safety and Health at Work, 5 September 2017, Singapore
More than 120 people participated in Symposium 15 ‘People-centred prevention strategies on OSH’ at the XXI World Congress for Safety and Health at Work, Singapore. The session was jointly organized by ENETOSH, the Occupational Safety and Health Council (OSHC), Hong Kong SAR, China and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS), Turkey.
The participants enjoyed an unconventional and truly interactive session. Four speakers (Peter Paulus, Hanan Elnagdy, Jocelyn Chng and Bonnie Yau) walked and talked to the participants who were grouped into four sections. Each participant was able to experience three of four exciting presentations demonstrating of how to put people-centred prevention into practice. Nine key-factors were derived from the examples in advance of the session. The participants were asked to vote the most effective key factors in the examples presented live in Singapore and by this to develop a common understanding of people-centred prevention.
Lead moderator, Attiya Khan, asked the participants to relax from their efforts and to enjoy the video ‘Pay it forward safety’ from Lattitude Productions.
The next highlight was the impressive key-note by Kevin Furniss, who offered to take part in the reflection of his journey from storytelling to storybuilding: Safety leadership in the past was about storytelling, leaders today need to invite people to do things together and make ordinary people the heroes of the stories. We all need to develop our capability in building effective relationships, how to gain trust. ‘The inspirational leader listens to the people in her organization. Talking to people about your passion is not enough. To ‘share meaning’ – my definition for communication - you must allow the ideas and thoughts of your staff to help form the vision and mission, or minimally, the goals and action plan.’
The strategic potential of the people-centred approach was outlined by Tim Tregenza with a reference to the ranking of the key-factors by the participants.
Finally Bonnie Yau and Hanan Elnagdy received the award for the most people-centred practice, based on the voting of the participants as well.
The session was chaired by Kwon Hyuck Myun, the four experts groups were moderated by Robin M. Izzo, Alan Cowen, Davide Scotti and Hülya Ünver.
Programme
4:00 pm
Welcome by (from right to left) Kwon Hyuck Myun, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea; Pinar Bicakioglu, MoLSS; Bonnie Yau, OSHC & Ulrike Bollmann, ENETOSH

Photo: Catherine Wong
Introduction by Attiya Khan, Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport (SMWA), Germany

Photo: Catherine Wong
4:10 pm
Walk & talk
Four focus groups:
Focus group A – moderated by Robin M Izzo, Princeton University, USA
Focus groups B – moderated by Alan Cowen, University of Brighton, UK
Focus group C - Davide Scotti, Saipem, Italy
Focus group D - Hülya Ünver, Ministry of Labor and Social Security, Turkey
Presentations in move:
Good healthy school: a framework for a person-centred culture of prevention in school health promotion. The case for salutogenetic leadership, Peter Paulus, Leuphana University, Germany
[Please click here for the flipchart poster in PDF format]
(will open in a new browser window)
Teaching intervention to enhance occupational safety behaviours for tea plantation workers in Assam, Hanan Elnagdy, Dibrugarh University, Assam, India
[Please click here for the flipchart poster in PDF format]
(will open in a new browser window)
‘Healthier workers, happier workers’ programme: a person-centric approach to
promoting health & safety at the workplace for bus captains in Singapore, Jocelyn Chng, Health Promotion Board, Singapore
[Please click here for the flipchart poster in PDF format]
(will open in a new browser window)
Application of Virtual Reality Technology in OSH Training – OSH CAVE, Bonnie Yau, Occupational Safety and Health Council, Hong Kong SAR, China
[Please click here for the flipchart poster in PDF format]
(will open in a new browser window)
5:10 pm
Video
‘Pay it forward safety’, Lattitude Productions, UK
[Please click here to watch the trailer]
5:15 pm
Key-note
From storytelling to storybuilding – a personal journey of reflection, Kevin Furniss, AP Moller Maersk, UK
(click the link to open the presenation)

Photo: Catherine Wong
5:30 pm
Key factors of a people-centred prevention – results from the focus-groups and the
consequences from a strategic viewpoint,
Tim Tregenza, European Agency for Safety and
Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
[please click here for the ranking of the key factors]

More than 120 people participated in Symposium 15 ‘People-centred prevention strategies on OSH’ at the XXI World Congress for Safety and Health at Work, Singapore. The session was jointly organized by ENETOSH, the Occupational Safety and Health Council (OSHC), Hong Kong SAR, China and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS), Turkey.
The participants enjoyed an unconventional and truly interactive session. Four speakers (Peter Paulus, Hanan Elnagdy, Jocelyn Chng and Bonnie Yau) walked and talked to the participants who were grouped into four sections. Each participant was able to experience three of four exciting presentations demonstrating of how to put people-centred prevention into practice. Nine key-factors were derived from the examples in advance of the session. The participants were asked to vote the most effective key factors in the examples presented live in Singapore and by this to develop a common understanding of people-centred prevention.
Lead moderator, Attiya Khan, asked the participants to relax from their efforts and to enjoy the video ‘Pay it forward safety’ from Lattitude Productions.
The next highlight was the impressive key-note by Kevin Furniss, who offered to take part in the reflection of his journey from storytelling to storybuilding: Safety leadership in the past was about storytelling, leaders today need to invite people to do things together and make ordinary people the heroes of the stories. We all need to develop our capability in building effective relationships, how to gain trust. ‘The inspirational leader listens to the people in her organization. Talking to people about your passion is not enough. To ‘share meaning’ – my definition for communication - you must allow the ideas and thoughts of your staff to help form the vision and mission, or minimally, the goals and action plan.’
The strategic potential of the people-centred approach was outlined by Tim Tregenza with a reference to the ranking of the key-factors by the participants.
Finally Bonnie Yau and Hanan Elnagdy received the award for the most people-centred practice, based on the voting of the participants as well.
The session was chaired by Kwon Hyuck Myun, the four experts groups were moderated by Robin M. Izzo, Alan Cowen, Davide Scotti and Hülya Ünver.
Programme
4:00 pm
Welcome by (from right to left) Kwon Hyuck Myun, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea; Pinar Bicakioglu, MoLSS; Bonnie Yau, OSHC & Ulrike Bollmann, ENETOSH

Photo: Catherine Wong
Introduction by Attiya Khan, Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport (SMWA), Germany

Photo: Catherine Wong
4:10 pm
Walk & talk
Four focus groups:
Focus group A – moderated by Robin M Izzo, Princeton University, USA
Focus groups B – moderated by Alan Cowen, University of Brighton, UK
Focus group C - Davide Scotti, Saipem, Italy
Focus group D - Hülya Ünver, Ministry of Labor and Social Security, Turkey
Presentations in move:
Good healthy school: a framework for a person-centred culture of prevention in school health promotion. The case for salutogenetic leadership, Peter Paulus, Leuphana University, Germany

[Please click here for the flipchart poster in PDF format]
(will open in a new browser window)
Teaching intervention to enhance occupational safety behaviours for tea plantation workers in Assam, Hanan Elnagdy, Dibrugarh University, Assam, India

[Please click here for the flipchart poster in PDF format]
(will open in a new browser window)
‘Healthier workers, happier workers’ programme: a person-centric approach to
promoting health & safety at the workplace for bus captains in Singapore, Jocelyn Chng, Health Promotion Board, Singapore

[Please click here for the flipchart poster in PDF format]
(will open in a new browser window)
Application of Virtual Reality Technology in OSH Training – OSH CAVE, Bonnie Yau, Occupational Safety and Health Council, Hong Kong SAR, China

[Please click here for the flipchart poster in PDF format]
(will open in a new browser window)
5:10 pm
Video
‘Pay it forward safety’, Lattitude Productions, UK
[Please click here to watch the trailer]
5:15 pm
Key-note
From storytelling to storybuilding – a personal journey of reflection, Kevin Furniss, AP Moller Maersk, UK
(click the link to open the presenation)

Photo: Catherine Wong
5:30 pm
Key factors of a people-centred prevention – results from the focus-groups and the
consequences from a strategic viewpoint,
Tim Tregenza, European Agency for Safety and
Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
[please click here for the ranking of the key factors]
