EUROGIP publishes the results of a survey on the provision of vocational training in occupational safety and health in Germany, Denmark, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Research was conducted to find out how the provision of OSH training was organised for companies – except initial training. The aim was to identify the people delivering this type of training and more particularly the mechanisms and reference standards ensuring the quality of training and the compliance of the educational content with the regulatory requirements as well as the role in this field of the institutions in charge of occupational risks. This research shows that vocational training in occupational safety and health is organised differently according to the countries. In Denmark, it is not part of the missions of the accident insurance institutions and it is outsourced to external private providers. In Italy and in the United Kingdom, it is decentralised. In Germany, it is institutional because it is a legal obligation of the accident insurance institutions. Even if OSH training is organised differently according to the countries, all of them have one element in common: the determination to better control and structure training in order to ensure its quality.