SI-WHP

Lecturers Availability

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:52:18 GMT

The lecturers are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Forum - Module 10 - Evaluation of WHP Programmes

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:32:11 GMT

Tutor Availability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Forum - Module 9 - Communications in WHP

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:31:52 GMT

Tutor Availability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Forum - Module 8 - Promoting Mental Health at the Workplace

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:31:40 GMT

Tutor Availability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Forum - Module 7 - Ergonomics and Workplace Health Promotion

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:31:28 GMT

Tutor Availability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Forum - Module 6 - Organisational and Individual Factors and WHP

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:31:15 GMT

Tutor Availability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Forum - Module 5 - Promoting Workability as a Means of WHP - Benefits for Employees and Businesses

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:31:04 GMT

Tutor Availability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Forum - Module 3 - Project Management in WHP

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:30:54 GMT

Tutor Availability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Forum - Module 2 - Research and Information in WHP

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:30:44 GMT

Tutor Availiability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Forum - Module 1 - Health Promotion and Workplace Health Promotion

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:30:29 GMT

Tutor Availability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Modul 4 - Ocena tveganja in njena vloga pri programih PZD

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:24:19 GMT

Tutor Availability

The tutors are available for your questions and comments between the 8th of October and the 9th of November 2012. They will provide you with an answer within 48 hours.

Module 10-Evaluation

Theodor Haratau — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:27:00 GMT

The Healthy Workplace Handbook – The NHS Reference Guide to Staff Well Being

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:00:08 GMT

Black C.

The Health Effects of Major Organisational Change and Job Insecurity

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:00:01 GMT

Ferrie J.E., Shipley M. J., Marmot M. G., Stansfeld S. and Smith, G. D.

The Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Europe: Comparing Austria, Germany, Greece, Portugal and the UK

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:59:52 GMT

Apospori E. and Millar J.

The Development of Modern Work Organisations: A Challenge to Occupational Safety and Health.

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:59:43 GMT

The Changing World of Work, Trends and Implications for Occupational Safety and Health in the European Union - Forum

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:59:32 GMT

The Changing Organization of Work and the Safety and Health of Working People

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:58:44 GMT

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

The Causes of Cancer

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:58:33 GMT

Doll R. & Peto R.

Telework in Perspective - New Challenges to Occupational Health and Safety

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:58:24 GMT

Ertel M., Pech E. and Helsperger P.

Social Marketing: Improving the Quality of Life

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:58:14 GMT

Kotler P., Roberto N. and Lee N.

Social Foundations of Post-Industrial Economies

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:58:07 GMT

Epsing-Anderson G.

Sickness Absence as a Measure of Health Status and Functioning: The UK Whitehall II Study

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:57:59 GMT

Marmot M., Feeney A., Shipley M., North, & Shyme S. L.

Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:57:49 GMT

United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development

Quantitative Risk Assessment for Environmental and Occupational Health

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:57:39 GMT

Hallenbeck, W. H.

Quality of Work and Employment in Romania

Tilia Boussios — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:57:32 GMT

Ciuctacu C. and Chivu L.

Course Assignment Instructions

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:59:13 GMT

Instructions for the Course Assignment for the SIWHP Training Course

General requirements / CME credits / Deadline

In order to finalize the SIWHP Training Course and receive your CME credits (Continuous Medical Education) you will need to submit a paper. It should be based on the template, course materials and presentations you have received and attended.

Please note that this paper is composed of 2 parts:

The paper itself which needs to be written in Slovenian (however we encourage all those who can to do it in English),
The summary (no less than 500 words) which needs to be in English.

This paper needs to be submitted by the 9th of November 2012. Further details on the paper are provided below.

Tutor Recommendations On-Line

We strongly believe that you will need ongoing support over the month when you will be writing this paper and therefore we have arranged support from all of the lecturers who presented at the training course. This support will be in the form of electronic forums and e-mail support.

FORUMS

You will be requested to go online to receive advice and recommendations for writing your paper as well as to encourage you to use the SIWHP e-learning platform. Therefore we invite you during the period between 8th of October and the 12th of November 2012 to go online on the SIWHP website (www.si-whp.eu) and log on to the MEMBERS area and participate in forums (10 forum areas, corresponding to the 10 modules).

Each module lecturer will be available for you based on a pre-established schedule. This schedule will be received on paper and in the Course Assignment Instructions area and within the Forum itself.

You are requested to visit at least 1 forums per week, so a total of 4 forums. Of course it is entirely up to you to choose the forum which fits your interests, the profile of your paper, and which can provide the answers you need so as to enable you to write your assignment.

WRITE TO YOUR LECTURER

E-Mail support is provided by the CONTACT A LECTURER option which if pressed will automatically open a window where you can write a message to the lecturer in charge of the Module. Each lecturer will answer your message in no more than 2 working days so as to support you in writing your assignment.

Deciding the Theme of the WHP Project (SIWHP Course Assignment)

A paper would otherwise be prepared on the basis of imaginary company, but we recommend you (if possible) to select real company for which you work because you can develop a plan / program that will actually be useful. Choice of topics or issues that you deal with should be based on an analysis of available data on the health of the organization (e.g. data on sick leave and in its causes, data from the reports after completing periodic screenings, data on injuries at work, the results of different surveys, for example satisfaction at work, the results of measurements in the working environment, etc.).

Preparing to Write the SIWHP Course Assignment

When writing the assignment:

Log on to the Members Area of the www.si-whp.eu
Go to the section called E-learning
On the left hand side please go to the Course Assignment Instructions
Download this Word file (named Explanation_Course_Assignment.doc) save it on your computer and read it
On the left hand side please go to the Course Assignment Template
Download the Word file named Template_Course_Assignment.doc and save it on your computer and use for writing your paper

Writing the SIWHP Course Assignment

When writing the Course Assignment (the paper):

Please use the template document called Template_Course_Assignment.doc which you have downloaded from the website (see above)
Please use the Slovenian language (you can also use English)
Please provide at the beginning of the paper a Summary of no less than 500 words in English
Please use the Black Verdana font (10pt) and single line spacing
Your assignment should be ideally no shorter than 7 pages but not longer than 10 pages
Please use the chapter structure provided in the Template for the Assignment

Submitting the SIWHP Course Assignment

Go to the SIWHP Course website (www.si-whp.eu) and follow the sequence below:

Log on to the Members Area of the www.whp-training.eu
Go to the E-learning section
On the left hand side go to the Course Assignment area
Go to the tag called Upload Course Assignment
Use the BROWSE button for searching within your computer
Upload the SIWHP Course Assignment
Then you will receive an email stating that your paper and your presentation have been uploaded
Log out

Please name your files by using your own name (for example Tanja_Urdih.doc).

Please note that your papers will only be read by the lecturers and that full confidentiality is guaranteed with regard to any data you may use and with regard to paper and presentation.

Feedback on your SIWHP Course Assignment

You will receive a feedback on your paper within 4 weeks following the date of your submission with the latest date being the 30th of November 2012.
You will receive the CME certificate bearing the number of CME credits on the 6th of December 2012 at the final project event.

Course Assignment Instructions [EN]

News

Tanja Urdih Lazar — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:58:00 GMT

Final events and the last project meeting

The international dissemination event of the SIWHP project will be held in Copenhagen on the 12th of November 2012 as a part of a larger meeting of the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion. The consortium has also decided to organize a final national event with all the partner organizations and national stakeholders on the 6th of December 2012 in order to present the SIWHP training and the participants' experiences to other occupational health physicians and their professional organizations. There will be also the last project meeting on the same day. (TUL)

Face-to-face training courses already implemented

Both face-to-face training courses within the SIWHP project were already implemented, the first one in May and the second one in September and October 2012. Alltogether 30 occupational health specialists and residents took part in the courses. They were all very interested in the topics presented and eager to gain new knowledge from the field of workplace health promotion. Their overall evaluation of the course was very positive and their comments will contribute to additional improvements of the Slovenian training course but also the courses in other countries interested in improving competences of occupational health physicians in this field. (TUL)

About Us

Dora Fiedor — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:58:00 GMT

SIWHP project – Workplace health promotion as a means of increasing the professional knowledge of the Slovenian occupational, traffic and sports medicine physicians

The aim of the project

The general aim of the project, which is co-financed by the European Commission from the funds of the Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme – Transfer of Innovation, is to introduce an innovative educational programme about workplace health promotion to Slovenia, a programme intended for specialists in occupational, traffic and sport medicine, to expand it by means of up-to-date relevant knowledge in cooperation with European partners and to adapt it to the situation in Slovenia. The programme which is used as a source was drawn up by the experts from the most prominent European professional institutions from the field of occupational health. It was first implemented in Romania.

Goals of the project

The project will enrich the offer of professional training intended for specialists in occupational, traffic and sport medicine in the field of workplace health promotion. In 2012, thirty specialists in occupational, traffic and sport medicine are expected to take part in the training, i.e. fifteen participants in each of the two seminars.

Organization of training

Each seminar will last for six days, i.e. for three days in two consecutive weeks. The seminars will be organized as follows:

the first seminar: from 17 to 19 and from 24 to 26 May 2012
the second seminar: from 27 to 29 September and from 4 to 6 October 2012.

The training starts with e-learning and encourages the participants to study additional literature and to enter into discussions with other participants; the discussions are led by individual lecturers. The aim of e-learning is to devise a plan of the workplace health promotion programme for a particular company, which is also a condition that has to be met if one wants to complete the training successfully.

Benefits for the training participants

To acquire new knowledge from the field of workplace health promotion, to brush up some other skills (e.g. from the field of ergonomics, risk assessment), to improve computer literacy in order to be able to find professional information
To gain credit points necessary for the promotion at the Medical Chamber of Slovenia
To provide better opportunities to co-operate with companies and to give advice on employees’ health

The concept of training

Educational materials:

transparencies,
case studies,
glossary and
reference book.

Methods of training:

workshops,
e-learning.

Evaluation of training:

preparation of a seminar paper,
questionnaire.

Learning methods:

learning at workshops,
individual learning,
lectures with the help of transparencies,
discussions,
teamwork,
individual work,
exercises carried out on the basis of a case study,
role plays.

Contents of Training

Health promotion and workplace health promotion (WHP)
Research and information in WHP
Project management in WHP
Professional risk assessment and its role in WHP programmes
Promoting work ability and its benefits as a means of WHP
Work Organization
Ergonomics and WHP
Mental health promotion
Communication from the perspective of WHP
Evaluation of WHP programmes

Partners in the Project

University Medical Centre Ljubljana; Clinical Institute of Occupational, Traffic and Sports Medicine (project co-ordinator),
Romtens Foundation, Romania,
University of Perugia, Italy,
Prevent, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Belgium,
WRC - Work Research Centre, Ireland,
E-works, Grčija.

Experts from the following organizations also participate:

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), Finland
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland,
National Institute for Safety and Hygiene at Work, Spain

Contact

Clinical Institute of Occupational, Traffic and Sports Medicine

Poljanski nasip 58
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

Health Promotion Department
Tanja Urdih Lazar (project manager)
Tel.: +386 1 522 26 92; +386 1 522 43 34
Fax: +386 1 522 24 78

E-mail: tanja.urdih-lazar@guest.arnes.si; institut.kimdps@guest.arnes.si

Welcome to the website of Workplace Health Promotion training

Dora Fiedor — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:05:00 GMT

The SIWHP project aims to enhance the knowledge of workplace health promotion of specialists in occupational, traffic and sports medicine in Slovenia, thus making their role in this field more important. To achieve this purpose, an innovative educational programme is being introduced to Slovenia, the programme which is expanded by means of up-to-date relevant knowledge at international level and is adapted to the situation in Slovenia. We cooperate with the most prominent European professional institutions from the field of occupational health.

The partners in the SIWHP project support the Luxembourg declaration, which was adopted by the European Network of Workplace Health Promotion – ENWHP and which defines workplace health promotion as the combined efforts of employers, employees and society to improve the health and well-being of people at work. This can be achieved through a combination of

improving the work organization and the working environment
promoting active participation and
encouraging personal development. .

By taking part in the SIWHP project, specialists in occupational, traffic and sports medicine can expect new opportunities for the cooperation with companies and for more successful work carried out in the field of employees’ health.

In 2012, educational activities will be conducted twice and seminars will be organized as follows:

the first seminar: from 17 to 19 and from 24 to 26 May 2012
the second seminar: from 27 to 29 September and from 4 to 6 October 2012.