Psychological Assessment 
for the Safety and Health of Transport Workers

European regulations in need of psychological assessment for the safety and health of Transport Workers

Authors: Franco Amore, Pietro Bussotti, Santo Di Nuovo (Italian Network of Psychological Associations- INPA)
Feb 2024

The issue of assessing psychological fitness for specific tasks, particularly those involving community safety needs our attention. The European regulations relating to the railway sector but also the rules related to civil pilots testify importance attributed by the European legislator to the psychological assessment of suitability for specific transport tasks.

The psychological assessment can also be usefully applied in the field of health protection in the workplace within the examinations that the occupational physician may require to express the suitability judgment. For these aspects, it’s a transversal matter of wide interest and development for our profession in all European countries, within the Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2023-2025, whose EFPA is a partner.

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Greetings from Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania – at www.fairstartfoundation.com , we started two more classes of SOS Children's Village staff and social workers sent by the government, in October 2023. The social workers support high-risk families and children in the poor districts of Dar Es Salaam, handling some 20 new child cases - per day. Yet, they are full of hope and energy. Now, they graduate after their 6-month education in how to train groups of parents and foster parents with our Swahili programs.

I'm grateful for Tanzanian government´s recognition of our work. As of today, Fairstart has educated 800 partner staff for NGOs and government agencies in 36 countries, who have trained the caregivers of 70.000 children and youth – in foster, high-risk and refugee families. I gratefully received the International Council of Psychologist´s Human Rights Award for 2023, and with so much backup from colleagues, I hope we can reach the goal of having trained the caregivers of 100.000 high-children. For the research underlying the intervention, see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Niels-Rygaard

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