OSH Learner Pathway / Journey

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Age/Learner Context

Formal Education & OSH

Workplace Learning & OSH

Goals & Focus

1

10 to 12 years

Primary

[Fifth and Sixth Class Students]

N/A

• Build basic safety awareness in everyday environments.

2

12 to 15/16 years

Post Primary - Junior Cycle

[Year 1 to Year 3]

Young people working on farms (home is a workplace).

• Develop safety awareness.
• Develop personal responsibility.

3

15/16 years +

Post Primary - Senior Cycle

[Transition Year (TY),

Leaving Cert Vocational Programme (LCVP), Leaving Cert Applied (LCA)]

TY work experience.

Part time jobs.

• Preparation for work experience or vocational training.
• Foster safety awareness and positive safety behaviour.
• Motivating around need for OSH and benefits.

4

16 +

Further Education and training (FET) [All & Apprentices].

Part time and full -time jobs.

For Apprentices, the workplace is the learning/training environment.

• Foster safety awareness and positive safety behaviour.
• Support peer learning.
• Job and sector-specific OSH training (foundational and practical).

5

17+

Higher Education

Part time and full -time jobs.

• Embedding safety in professional practice.
• Becoming an OSH Professional.
• Support peer learning.

6

18+

Adult Education

Part time and full -time jobs.

• Foster life-long OSH learning.
• Job and sector-specific OSH training.
• Support peer learning.
• Motivating around need for OSH and benefits.

7

18+

N/A

Workplace OSH training.

Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

• Foster life-long OSH learning.
• Job and sector-specific OSH training – including (1) OSH induction, (2) specialist and (3) ongoing/refresher training.
• Support peer learning.
• Motivating around need for OSH and benefits.