In addition to books, most information today has to be found online. But most OSH professionals are not well trained in how to do this in a professional manner, finding the most reliable sources in...
How to find reliable OSH information
Professionals, workers and managers are often exploring internet in search for answers to their concerns. Printed books and scientific journals are steadily being replaced by online sources, also in the domain of Occupational Safety and Health. Finding, selecting and using relevant and reliable online information and education, is challenging. A new knowledge infrastructure could be created including roadmaps. We need more knowledge on how to find and use reliable online sources and better skills as we need these to improve safety and health at the workplace. Awareness has to grow that we need good training programs and guides on how to find reliable information for occupational safety and health (OSH).
The LDOH foundation supports capacity building in this area by various means. One is the writing and publishing of the book “Occupational Safety and Health online, how to find reliable information” (third edition, 2016; free to download from www.ldoh.net in English, Spanish and Turkish) to provide guidance on searching techniques. Hundreds of printed copies are distributed and more than 600 free digital book copies are downloaded from our website. In addition, many digital copies are in circulation and used in different parts of the world. The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (USA) published a very positive review of the book in April 2019, recommending the book. The open access article Where to find evidence-based information on OSH has been published January 2021 in the Annals of Global Health (F van Dijk, Y Caraballo-Arias) to find via https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/10.5334/aogh.3131/).
Another activity of LDOH is the organization of interactive workshops and lessons on this topic such as in Latin America, USA, Central Asia, Indonesia, South Africa, Croatia, Turkey, the Netherlands. A small data collection is made on our activities in this field including a complete set of presentations used in Zagreb, Croatia for a 2.5 day workshop on this topic in December 2018.
Finding reliable online OSH information
Where to find evidence-based Occupational Safety and Health information
The article Where to find evidence-based information on OSH has been published in the Annals of Global Health in January 2021. The authors are Frank van Dijk and Yohama Caraballo-Arias, staff members...
Online Information and Basic Occupational Health Care, promising innovations
The Center for International Health of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, hosted its first Occupational Safety and Health symposium in Munich, 16 March 2019. In this high-level...
Training in occupational health information sources and knowledge infrastructure, Antalya March 2019
During the Occupational and Environmental Diseases Congress in Antalya, Turkey (March 2019) Frank van Dijk has given a lecture about training in occupational health information sources and knowledge...
Workshop how to find reliable information online
The LDOH has developed a 2.5 day interdisciplinary workshop on ‘How to find reliable information online’ for professionals and experts in Occupational Safety and Health. The first actual workshop was...
“OSH online. How to find reliable information” new developments
End 2016 the new updated and revised third edition of the book “OSH online. How to find reliable information” (English) was published. The translation in Spanish, completed by Yohama...