1st transnational workshop Tallin 2023

Description

The Project "MentalHealthMatters" started with 1st transnational workshop in TalTech University in Tallin on 25th September, 2023. Experts from Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Poland, Sweden and Norway participated in it.
The purpose of the project is to prepare Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) systems and professionals as well as small and medium sized enterprises to address the workforce’s current and emerging psychosocial risks at work. OSH standards are mainly focusing on physical hazards and accident prevention, and the MentalHealthMatters project will put attention to mental well-being at work which is as crucial as physical health.
During the project a “first-aid kit” will be developed to support owners and managers of SMEs that do not have access to OSH professionals in assessing psychosocial risks and taking preventive action.
Each partner presented the early results and findings from their national CoPs regarding the theme “gaps in data and policy”.
During two parallel sessions, one group focused on exploring the methodology and approach to the development of the first-aid kit. The second group of the parallel sessions discovered and defined gaps and challenges related to psychosocial risks at work from the perspective of three different themes: changes in the world of work, education of OSH professionals, and work environment and culture. The purpose was to explore the gaps and challenges related to these themes, to group them, and to define overarching topics for these themes.

Period	25 Sept 2023
Event type	Workshop
Location	Tallin, EstoniaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International