Educational Resources

The International Labour Organization and the United Nations Global Compact have identified nine business practices to improve safety and health through supply chains and create a culture of prevention and protection.

Length: 21 pages

This one-hour self-paced course covers the principles of health and safety in tourism and hospitality. You’ll learn about common hazards, key responsibilities, and the occupational, human, and environmental factors that affect workplace wellbeing, as well as the importance of training and supervision.

Duration: 1 hour

This one-hour self-paced course introduces tour guides and aspiring guides to key health and legal requirements. You’ll learn how to assess risks, manage health and safety emergencies, and handle challenges such as health emergencies and crisis while tour guiding.

Duration: 1 hour

This course introduces the principles of fire prevention and safety management, helping employers, workers, and inspectors understand their responsibilities. You’ll learn how to prevent fires, ensure safe escape routes, comply with safety codes, and recognize poor fire safety practices to improve evacuation readiness and protect lives.

Self-guided, 2 modules

This course provides an introduction to social protection, covering different issues including the human right to social security, the need for social protection over the life cycle (such as maternity, raising children, sickness, unemployment and disability benefits, old-age pensions as well as social health protection), the process of building universal social protection systems and addressing global challenges.

Duration: 4 weeks, 2-4 hours per week

The Wellness Check In encourages a personal review of work stress on personal wellbeing, while the Self Care Playbook provide simple things you can do every day, at home, to protect your health and manage your stress response.

Length: 13 pages

This course will guide you in building and successfully managing a workplace HIV programme, to protect the rights of everyone, reduce HIV related stigma and discrimination, and address inequalities.

Duration: 9 modules over 8-10 hours

This training course provides the foundation for challenging stigma and discrimination, and for promoting person-centred, recovery oriented and human rights based approaches in mental health. 

Duration: 6 modules over 24 hours

The overall objective of this course is to apply a systems-thinking approach to issues of food security and nutrition, thus contributing to a transformation of food systems towards more sustainable, equitable and healthy diets.

Duration: 2-4 hours per week