The SAFEWORKERS NORHED II project aims to improve safety and health for workers in SSA through novel and expanded OH capacity development in higher education and research. The project will undertake to establish a “Virtual School of Occupational Health”. The school will involve a co-operation between the three partner universities, with the purpose of developing online education in occupational health.

The education materials will be able to be used totally online or developed into a blended version with a mixture of online and on campus teaching. Such a virtual school will make it possible to teach in difficult times, such as when we have a pandemic, and it will be useful for reaching out with better education opportunities at the universities in the project as well as for universities elsewhere.

Primarily, the target groups for this teaching will be students at Master and PhD levels, as this is important for the capacity building at the universities involved. However, if the school is successful, also other target groups may be included in due time – such as arrangements of courses for employers and employees. Ongoing research will be integrated into the education programmes in Tanzania and Ethiopia, focusing in particular on intervention studies that will reduce workplace injuries and diseases for male and female workers.