Bio profile:
Ulrike Bollmann is an education expert and responsible for international cooperation at the Institute for Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV). She is the founder and has been the coordinator of the European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safety and Health (ENETOSH) since 2005. In 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016, she conducted the International Strategy Conference on Safety and Health at Work in Dresden in cooperation with the WHO, ILO, ISSA, EU-OSHA, IALI and others. Ulrike was a member of the World Congress on Safety and Health at Work team in Frankfurt 2014 and held an ENETOSH symposium at the XXI World Congress in Singapore 2017.
In 2018, she conducted an empirical study on mainstreaming OSH into education. Other research focuses include the development of trust in the workplace (2018-2020; 2022) and the integration of UN Sustainable Development Goal 8 into higher education (Europe: 2020 - 2022; Africa: 2023 - present). Together with George Boustras, Ulrike has published a book on competences for a culture of prevention (2021), an EU-OSHA report together with Heinz Hundeloh on the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders in schools (2022); a publication on the risks and potential of digitalisation in schools is in print (2024). Ulrike is a member of the Editorial Board of Safety Science, member of the Training and Advisory Council of OSHAfrica, member of the Steering Group of the EU-OSHA Healthy Workplaces Campaign "Safe and Healthy Work in the Digital Age - 2022-2025" and member of the Executive Committee of the „GISHW International Symposium on Safety, Health and Well-being“ at Expo2025, Osaka.
