The health and safety of workers lies at the center of the Institute’s interest. The members of the scientific team and the collaborators are actively involved with the subject on a research and educational level.

• Talks to company employees on a variety of health promotion topics.

The Institute has carried out a significant number of talks to company employees. The subject areas in which they are active, concern the promotion of healthy nutrition, the safe use of alcohol, preventing and quitting smoking, stress management, etc. In addition, it has been particularly involved in the health issues of working women, within the framework of the HPROWOMEN program.

• Educational programs for the health of specific professional groups, such as farmers.

The Institute has organized informative events on the health problems faced by farmers but also for the protective measures against avian influenza in Kilkis, Kozani and Ormylia in Halkidiki in 2009. In 2010, it participated in a “Foundation Eurocenter” program funded by the World Bank. Within the programs’ framework, it developed an educational tool and conducted a train-the-trainer seminar on the health of farmers. Recently, the Institute participated in the European program AGROSH + which focuses on the training of occupational health workers and safety technicians on Health and Safety issues concerning the agricultural sector.

• Development of informative material for safe alcohol use.

The Institute has developed informative material for workers concerning the consumption of alcoholic beverages and the health effects, the limits of safe consumption, the measuring units and the calories which the alcoholic beverages provide. Read about the European program EWA and the relevant newsletter here.

The Prolepsis Institute also designs, organizes and implements applied Health and Safety programs in the work place and scientific consulting services for the prevention and investigation of occupational illnesses and the planning of combatting accidents and disasters of major proportions.