Sustainable Development Importance in Higher Education for Occupational Health and Safety Using Egypt Vision 2030 under COVID-19 Pandemic

Mouneer, Tarek A.

doi:10.4236/gep.2021.94006

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“…Data sorting was completed using Microsoft Excel, while statistical analysis was performed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. Empirical findings were calculated on the basis of the respondents' willingness to advance HUA's attempts to promote OSH education, Equation (1), as well as their willingness to further university OSH courses, teaching aids, or dedicated seminars and workshops, Equation (2). The best-fitting model has been developed, meaning that only statistically significant variables are included.…”

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“…Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and this rapidly changing world, there is a growing discussion addressing OSH and sustainable development (SD) [1][2][3][4][5][6]. OSH and SD, though not apparent at first sight, are highly interrelated, given that they attempt to address the contemporary human challenges inter alia well-being, a safe and decent job, economic growth, and the climate crisis [7][8][9].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…. to protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers"; furthermore, SDG number 16 promotes just and inclusive societies [2,24].…”

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Occupational Health and Safety Scope Significance in Achieving Sustainability

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A safe and healthy working environment is vital for overall sustainability, due to the fact that it affects opportunities of economic and social development. However, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), despite the international commitment to Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) via the 2030’s Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), work-related accidents are still far too common. Work-related mortality accounts for 5% of all deaths worldwide; a toll which has increased dramatically due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, in the context of COVID-19, new demands on the labour market, such as teleworking, adequate protective measures, and proper use of personal protective equipment when physical presence cannot be avoided, are necessitating new approaches to ensure health and safety. Arguably, education can be viewed as a cross-cutting strategy in advance of a culture of safety for future generations, through strengthening skills and broadening knowledge. Indeed, even though education cannot be considered a panacea, related to SDG 4, which seeks to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, it can be considered a critical component to deal with OSH issues using a preventive, rather than a reactive, approach. Given this fact, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has stressed the prevention approach through mainstreaming OSH in education at all levels, and in all fields of vocational and academic training. Aware of the potential of universities to provide graduates the broad-based knowledge to produce labour-market skills including OSH, the aim of this study is to contribute to the discussion on mainstreaming OSH into Greek university education, using Harokopio University (HUA) as a case study. For this purpose, a web-based survey was conducted to address HUA’s students, faculty members, and staff OSH knowledge, risks awareness, and attitudes, as well as their perceptions, opinions, and beliefs about the role of OSH for academia. A statistical analysis depicted respondents’ high level of willingness to contribute to the promotion of OSH, while additional evidence suggests a considerable commitment of the respondents to participate in HUA’s OSH-related training and education.

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“…The United Nations (UN) announced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be met over a 15-year period, beginning January 1, 2016, and ending December 31, 2030. The 2030 Agenda is a set of 17 SDGs with 169 objectives aimed at making the world more sustainable, resilient, and prosperous (Mouneer 2021 ). The COVID-19 jeopardizes the growth prospects of developing countries to achieving the SDGs by 2030 (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2020 ).…”

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Modeling COVID-19 effects on SDGs using system dynamics in Egypt

Marzouk

Azab

Elshaboury

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a significant threat to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To address this challenge, a thorough examination of the pandemic’s influence on four SDGs in Egypt is presented in a system dynamic model. The addressed goals are related to no poverty (SDG 1), zero hunger (SDG 2), decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), and climate action (SDG 13). The model is simulated over 35 years extending from 2015 to 2050. Furthermore, a web-based interactive learning environment is developed to analyze the interdependencies among public health activities and study the impacts of possible intervention countermeasures or prevention policies. Indicators including poverty line, food insecurity, gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are evaluated to track Egypt’s performance in relation to SDGs 1, 2, 8, and 13. According to the simulation model, the poverty line will continue to decline until it reaches around 16% by 2050. According to the significant governmental efforts to follow its vision of 2030, Egypt can achieve a decreasing percentage of food insecurity, reaching 3% in 2030, and this percentage will continue to decrease until it reaches full sufficiency by 2050. The GDP growth rate will rise every year until it reaches 13.71% in 2050. With respect to climate, GHG emissions are predicted to fall to roughly 97 Mt CO2-equivalents by 2050. This approach revitalizes debates about the achievement of SDGs amid the crisis and acts as a powerful tool that aids decision-makers in identifying leverage points to avoid the long-term negative repercussions of the crisis on the economy, people, and environment.

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“…. protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments" by 2030 [5,6]. Despite the international commitment to occupational safety and health, work-related accidents and diseases are still too prevalent.…”

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Learning from Neighbors: The Spatial Spillover Effect of Crisis Learning on Local Government

Tang

Wang

2022

Sustainability

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Accident prevention is an important prerequisite for achieving sustainable development, and effective crisis learning is a necessary path to it. This article focuses on whether local governments in non-accident areas learn from crises in accident areas, that is “learn from the mistakes of neighbors” and “grow in wisdom.” Using panel data from 2006–2017 for 30 provinces in China, our empirical test discovered that there is not a one-to-one relationship between “learning from neighbors” and “growing in wisdom”; it is a U-shaped relationship between the frequency of major accidents and the crisis learning effect of local government. When the occurrence frequency of major accidents is low, the regulatory effect caused by major accidents leads to the effective crisis learning of local governments. However, when major accidents occur frequently and reach a certain threshold, the crisis learning effect will deteriorate due to an excessive deterrent effect. In this non-linear relationship, the impact of political pressure occurs on two fronts, a gentle U-shaped curve and a shift in the inflection point to the left, implying that political pressure plays a dual role in the crisis learning process of local government. Accordingly, local governments should fully seize the window of time to initiate crisis learning with regulatory effects and delegate political authority to supervise local crisis learning with reasonable compliance.

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Sustainable Development Importance in Higher Education for Occupational Health and Safety Using Egypt Vision 2030 under COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 12 publications

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Occupational Health and Safety Scope Significance in Achieving Sustainability

Occupational Health and Safety Scope Significance in Achieving Sustainability

Modeling COVID-19 effects on SDGs using system dynamics in Egypt

Learning from Neighbors: The Spatial Spillover Effect of Crisis Learning on Local Government

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