Professionals, workers, and managers are often exploring the internet in search of answers to their concerns. Printed books and scientific journals are steadily being replaced by online sources. Finding, selecting, and using relevant and reliable online information, is challenging. It is time to create a new knowledge infrastructure including training and road maps.
The LDOH foundation supports capacity building by various means. One is the publishing of the book “Occupational Safety and Health online, how to find reliable information” (third edition, 2016; free to download from ldoh.net in English, Spanish, and Turkish) to train and guide searching practices. Hundreds of printed copies are distributed and more than 1000 free digital book copies are downloaded from our website. In addition, many digital copies are further disseminated and used in different parts of the world. The Occupational Medicine (London, UK) journal and the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (USA) published a very positive review of the book in 2018 and 2019, recommending the book for OSH professionals. Our open-access article Where to find evidence-based information on OSH was published in January 2021 in the Annals of Global Health (350 downloads Dec. 2023) to find via https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/10.5334/aogh.3131/.
