Ss34 Workplace Health Without Borders (Whwb), Its Mission and Impact: Osh Projects and Training Across the Globe

Abstract This Special Session will highlight how an international charity organization – Workplace Health Without Borders (WHWB) - collaborates with membership organizations, universities and international host bodies to provide opportunities locally, nationally and globally for professionals to provide and receive training and mentoring, and establish intervention projects to advance the knowledge, skills and experience of occupational health professionals around the world. WHWB members provide these services on a voluntary basis to vulnerable populations in resource-poor settings. The objectives of the Special Session are to present: (i) an understanding of the way that WHWB collaborates with various organizations across sectors to increase its reach around the world, (ii) an understanding of projects and training initiatives being undertaken at grassroots level by an international charity with a limited budget, and (iii) an appreciation of how smaller projects can make a difference to workforces and communities lacking OSH expertise and services, and how the sustainability of these programs is considered and achieved.