The project focused on the impact of Covid on the mental health of workers and proposed strategies and activities to improve the situation, including new policy initiatives through tripartite cooperation at regional level.
The project built on the ongoing project "Together for healthy, safe and decent workplaces in the metal sector", which focused on capacity-building of health and safety officers. The new project focused more on mental health, and tripartite cooperation to influence new policies and regulations. It also addressed the impact of the Covid pandemic on the mental health of workers in the metal sector. The aim was that a series of trainings for relevant stakeholders would lead to improved decent work arrangements through adoption of new policies in minimum five companies.
The project built on a tripartite partnership between local and regional stakeholders, including from the health sector, but also a partnership with the Norwegian Research institution FAFO which provided knowledge on the Norwegian situation.
Activities were the following:
- a tripartite steering committee prepared policy framework for decent mental health and safety conditions
- two panel discussions with company level representatives of trade unions and employers, health and safety officers, public and health authorities and steering committee members.
- three 2-days trainings for 60 representatives of social partners and professionals from companies in Kosice and participation of the Norwegian expert
- Training for Managers and Employees and Manual
- Three online company-level trainings: two for 60 employees and one for 10 managers
- Communication and awareness activities, including web page and press conference