The ISSR on its way to completing the first Intellectual output of the SSaW project The last four months of the project (from June 2019 to October 2019), the State Institute for the Deaf (ISSR, based in Rome, Italy) worked on the completion of the adapted vocabulary in International Sign (IS) and Italian Sign Language...Continue Reading

Erasmus+ project on track to promote health and safety of workers in noisy environments through use of sign language With concerns reported that signs of hearing loss are on the rise amongst workers in noisy environments such as the oil and gas and service industries [links below] employers need to take steps to protect their...Continue Reading

This initiative will ease workplace communication between employees without taking into consideration their hearing and language ability CETEM, the Technological Research Centre of Furniture in the Region of Murcia, hosted the second meeting for the transnational consortium of the European project SSaW (Signed Safety at Work), included in the framework of the Strategic Partnerships of...Continue Reading

Developing and adapting an accessible Health and Safety vocabulary from English to International Signs in a multilingual-multimodal environment Written by Maria T. De Monte   May 2019 saw the completion of the first version of the Health and Safety vocabulary in International Signs (IS). The vocabulary has been built as a collaboration between Istituto Statale...Continue Reading

New Erasmus+ project supports health and safety in the workplace by facilitating communication   Since November 2018, the Signed Safety at Work consortium has been working to enhance health and safety communication in noisy workplaces. SSaW is creating a sign vocabulary (based on International Sign) of around 200 essential Health and Safety phrases. Workers will...Continue Reading