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Technical assistance to the EU-China project on occupational health and safety in high-risk sectors

We are seeking two highly qualified OHS professionals with the following qualifications:

  • University Degree
  • Experience in OHS policy development on a management/team leader level, or
  • Experience in the delivery, design and management of trainings on occupational health and safety
  • Solid knowledge of EU occupational health and safety policies and regulations
  • Work experience in China would be an asset

The project will contribute to developing China's capacity at all appropriate levels to design and enforce an effective occupational health and safety strategy based on the principles of prevention and the direct involvement of workers in risk management in coal mining and non-coal mining, chemicals, fireworks,construction and transport.

The technical assistance team, which will consist of 2 key experts and a pool of short-term expertise, of which international expertise will be favoured, will work with the State Administration of Work Safety to deliver results in the following 2 components:

1. Support to capacity-building for policy formulation, regulatory strengthening and more effective inspection systems through comparative analysis and research, the organisation of workshops, seminars and conferences, developing sustainable dialogue and coordination mechanisms to enable the functioning of the triangle of employers, workers and administration, the setting up of an International Advisory Group to facilitate the active exchange and discussion to improve policy-making and enforcement in OSH between the Chinese administration, other Chinese stakeholders and international actors/donors and communication, coordinationand visibility actions;

2. Training activities will encompass developing 'train-the-trainers' manuals on OSH knowledge and training delivery, training in China and the EU and supporting trainers in delivery, OSH-related awareness-raising campaigns amongst businesses, managers and workers, including events, the development and delivery of an effective monitoring system, including feeding results into component 1.

The project shall start in February 2012 and will last for 48 months.

If you are interested to work within this project please send your CV to koth@aam.at.