Becoming a safety and health professional requires multidisciplinary training. The OSH profession calls for a broad-based educational background combined with specialized knowledge of physical sciences (medicine, physics, chemistry and engineering), social sciences (behaviour, motivation and communication) and the principles and concepts of management. Many professionals need to update their competences accordingly. To meet this need, the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO) is offering a distance-learning course on OSH delivered via an Internet-based platform. The proposed programme will incorporate the ILO's international experience of OSH and the ITCILO's international training experience as applied to the methodology.