The Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, the Department of Labour Inspection (TEI) and the CERIDES Centre of Excellence of European University Cyprus held a press conference today, Tuesday, 24 January 2023, where they presented the multifaceted work resulting from their excellent and long-standing cooperation.
In his address to the press conference, the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance, Mr Kyriakos I. Kousios, pointed out that the Ministry attaches great importance to the reduction of occupational accidents, occupational diseases and dangerous incidents in the working environment and the development and maintenance of conditions that will not only facilitate legislative compliance, but will also shape a healthy and safe working environment, is the main pillar of the cooperation between the Ministry and the CERIDES Centre of Excellence. With a focus on the protection of human life, this systematic and multi-level cooperation plays a key role in the effort to develop and implement appropriate preventive and protective measures for the protection and well-being of workers and the sustainable development of enterprises.
For his part, the Director of the CERIDES Centre of Excellence, Professor George Bustras, echoing what the Minister said in his address, highlighted the essential contribution of academic knowledge, research and innovation to the universal effort to improve levels of safety and health at work and assured that this cooperation will continue and will offer even more.
Representatives of TEE and the CERIDES Centre of Excellence presented the major achievements and future actions of more than ten years of cooperation. A collaboration, which started in 2012 and has recorded remarkable research work in relation to the combinatorial factors that can lead to occupational accidents, the cost of occupational accidents, safety and health in micro-enterprises, as well as the management of risks arising from the ageing workforce in Cyprus. At the same time, informative seminars and trainings were organised for the inspectors of the TEI and professionals in the field of safety and health, assisting them in the performance of their duties, while on several occasions Cyprus was represented in meetings of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work by CERIDES experts.
The culmination of this joint effort is the Postgraduate and Doctoral Programme in Occupational Safety and Health, the only accredited programme offered by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. Graduates of the Program, through the specialized knowledge and skills they acquire, significantly meet the growing demand in the labor market in relation to occupational risk management.
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