Bangladesh: the OHS Initiative organises a refresher ToT training on OHS

One of the main objectives of the OHS Initiative for Workers and Community Project is to develop a pool of 75 Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Trainers who will carry out a series of training by themselves to the rank and –file workers in different industrial sectors, with a target of reaching 6000 workers over a three year period. OHS Initiative recruited 29 Trainers from its five partners organization and provided in 2017 a 20 days long training on occupational health and safety, gender equality, leadership and workers rights, including basic ToT.

Over the last 6 months, the respective trainers (1st batch) of OHS Initiative project have been conducting their own training at the factory level and home based workers on safety issues.  Based on their field level training experiences and challenges, OHS Initiative designed and organized a 5 days long Refresher ToT course to re-energize the trainer’s knowledge, skills and confidence for the effective implementation of workers training at factory level. 

It was a refresher course aimed at mentoring the Trainers and increasing their knowledge on how they can best improve their training program in the workers community. The Refresher Training of Trainers course was five days with in total 26 participants. During the course, they viewed basic occupational health and safety, workplace risk assessment, ergonomics, safety committee and leadership. In addition, a new topic has been included in the course content on collective bargaining and conflict management as per participants demand.  Participants also developed a short module on basic OHS and practiced it.