Online Training Resources in Occupational Safety and Health

Daniel Hryhorczuk, MDLeslie Nickels, MEdLinda Forst, MD, MPHJoseph Zanoni, MLIR

Great Lakes CentersUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

Continuum of E-Learning

¡ Email correspondence¡ Web-based forums and list serves¡ Web-based portals¡ Literature searches (Pubmed)¡ Government sources¡ Case studies¡ Webcasts

Continuum of E-Learning

¡ Blended courses (partial online andpartial web-based)

¡ Web-based short courses¡ Web-based academic courses¡ Web-based degree programs

Web-based Forums

¡ Occ-Env-Med-L (free)l Founded and managed in at Duke

University Medical Centerl Professional community of nearly 2,800

readers (clinicians and public healthexperts). Each member receives 300-350 messages each month

Web-based Forums

¡ Medical Center Occupational Health¡ American Industrial Hygiene

Association¡ SAFETY (University of Vermont)¡ UK’s OCCENVMED¡ HS-Canada¡ RST-LAC (Latin American)¡ MediTrav (French)

International Portals

¡ Canadian Centre for OccupationalSafety and Health

¡ European Agency for Safety andHealth at Work

¡ ILO International OccupationalSafety and Health InformationCentre

¡ NIOSH

International Portals

¡ Finnish Institute of OccupationalHealth

¡ IARC-WHO¡ Institut National de Recherche et de

Securitel http://www.inrs.fr/index_fla.html

¡ Ministerio de Trabajo y AsuntosSocialesl http://www.mtas.es/

Canadian Centre for OccupationalHealth and Safety

¡ WHO CollaboratingCentre inOccupationalHealth

¡ www.ccohs.org¡ Training materials

can be ordered ina variety offormats

¡ Announcesupcoming courses

European Agency for Safety andHealth at Work

¡ Set up byEuropean Union

¡ In Bilbao, Spain¡ http://europe.osha

.eu.int/research/¡ Guide to training

resources inEurope

ILO

¡ InternationalLabor Organization

¡ http://www.ilo.org/public/english/

ILO: Safe Workand Occupational Health

¡ SafeWorkl http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/sa

fework/index.htm

ILO: CIS

¡ International Occupational Safety and HealthInformation Centrel http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safewo

rk/cis/¡ Network of Centres

l http://www.ciscentres.org/

NIOSH

¡ U.S. NationalInstitute ofOccupationalSafety and Health

¡ WHO CollaboratingCentre

¡ http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html

¡ NIOSHpublications

NIOSH: Mining

Finnish Instituteof Occupational Health

¡ WHO CollaboratingCentre

¡ http://www.occuphealth.fi/e/

¡ Trainingpublications canbe purchased

¡ Electronicmagazines

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health:Electronic Magazines

¡

African Newsletter onOccupational Health and Safety

¡Asian Pacific Newsletter onOccupational Health and Safety

¡Barents Newsletter onOccupational Health and Safety

¡Estonian Newsletter onOccupational Health and Safety

¡WHO Collaborating CentresNetwork Newsletter

Academic Portals

¡ Association of Schools of Public Health¡ Searchable database¡ www. ASPH.org

Academic Portals

¡ University of Manchester, UKl http://www.coeh.man.ac.uk/

¡ Duke University, U.S.l http://dmi-www.mc.duke.edu/oem/index2.htm

Professional Society Portals

¡ International Commission on Occupational Healthl http://www.icoh.org.sg/

¡ American College of Occupational andEnvironmental Medicinel http://www.acoem.org/

Commercial Portals

¡ WorldWideLearnl Directory of online courses, online

learning, online educationl www.worldwidelearn.com

¡ Listed offerers of courses andcertificates:l 23 entities

Literature Searches

¡ Medlinel National Library of Medicinel Biomedicall Http://pubmed.gov

¡ Toxnetl National Library of Medicinel Includes several toxicology, non-clinical

databasesl Http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

Government SourcesOSHA

¡ U.S. regulatoryagency foroccupationalsafety and health

¡ www.osha.gov¡ OSHA Training

Institute¡ Public domain

training materials

OSHA: Silicosis Training

Government Sources

¡ ATSDRl U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registryl Toxicology profilesl Http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov

¡ EPA Pesticidesl Http://epa.gov/pesticides/safety/index.

htm

Electronic Libraries

Webcasts

¡ Combination ofslide presentation(e.g. PowerPoint)with audio andvideo

Case Studies on the Web

¡ Clinical casestudies inenvironmentalmedicine

¡ U.S. ATSDR¡ www.atsdr.cdc.gov

/HEC/CSEM¡ 30 case studies for

clinicians onspecific toxins

Short Courses on the Web

¡ Toxicology¡ U.S. National Library

of Medicine¡ http://sis.nlm.nih.gov

/Tox/ToxTutor.html¡ 3 modules¡ Self-assessment

questions¡ Complete in 2 hours

Short Courses on the Web

¡ Envirorisk¡ www.uic.edu/sph/

cade/envirorisk¡ UIC GLC¡ Interactive course¡ 2 hours to

complete

Short Courses on the Web

¡ Health Effects ofWater Pollution

¡ American Collegeof PreventiveMedicine

¡ 22 credit module¡ www.waterhealthc

onnection.org

Academic Short Courses

¡ University of Illinois School of PublicHealth

¡ Principles of Environmental HealthSciences

¡ Online course¡ Piloted this year for international

trainees with WHO

Online Degree/Certificate Programs

¡ Barton Community Collegel Associate in applied science (haz mat

management)

¡ Columbia Southern Universityl B.S. in occupational safety and healthl M.S. in occupational safety and healthl Certificate in ergonomic compliancel Certificate in industrial hygiene

managment

Online Degree/Certificate Programsin Occupational Health

¡ Community Colleges of Coloradol A.A.S. in occupational safety

¡ East Carolina Universityl B.S. in industrial technology transfer

¡ Eastern Kentucky Universityl M.S. in loss prevention and safety

¡ Indiana University of Pennsylvanial Certificate of recognition in safety

sciences

Online Degree/Certificate Programsin Occupational Health

¡ Tulane Universityl M.P.H. in occupational safety and health

managementl M.P.H. in occupational healthl M.S. in public health in industrial hygiene

¡ University of Connecticutl Certificate in occupational safety and health

¡ University of New Brunswick (Canada)l Certificate in health, safety, and environmental

processes

Online Degree/Certificate Programsin Occupational Health

¡ University of Manchester, UKl Center for Occupational and

Environmental Healthl On-line diploma in occupational health-

medicine and hygienel www.coeh.man.ac.uk/

Barriers

¡ Language¡ Cost¡ Copyright¡ Time

(Synchronous vsAsynchronoustime)

¡ Difficult if pacedlearning

¡ Bandwidth¡ Printing capability¡ Variable quality¡ Rapidly evolving

CCOH Opportunities

¡ Portals¡ Forums¡ Electronic libraries¡ Donations of CCOH-

developed materialsto a WHO-OHelectronic library

¡ Adding trainees toongoing courses

¡ Certificates