‘Mainstreaming’ OHS into the curriculum

OHS is usually taught when preparing students for work experience or structured workplace learning placements, or in VET subjects. However, there are many opportunities for integrating OHS across the curriculum – for example, students might research topics such as:

• the impact of the industrial revolution on the health and safety of working people
• the rise of social reform movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to unsafe working conditions
• the impact of rapid technological development on rates and types of occupational disease and injury
• advances in medical understanding and recognition of occupational injury and disease
• changes in the willingness of communities to tolerate ‘risk’
• the social and economic impacts of workplace injury and disease in developed and developing nations.