Continuing Vocational Education and Training
Fight the risk
New accident prevention campaign
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The German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) started this campaign in January 2010.
Every year, 230.000 accidents occur during transport and traffic within plants, 150 of them are fatal. In addition, 23.000 accidents occur on public roads during business journeys (170 of them fatal) and 175.000 accidents occur involving schoolchildren on public roads. In 2008, more than 500 insurants lost their lives due to one of these casualties.
The campaign "Fight the risk" aims at prevention and reduction of these accidents. A website is online now, offering information for employers, employees, pupils and teachers, links, videoclips, a multimedia quiz and personalized E- Cards including a short prevention clip that can be sent to friends.
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Virtual Construction site
ACT-UK Simulation Centre
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Advanced Construction Technologies ( UK) Ltd. runs a virtual construction site for safety training in Coventry. The simulation centre, believed to be the first of its kind, features a state-of-the-art computer-generated simulation to create a virtual construction site, which allows construction managers to develop their skills in a controlled environment.
To make the training as lifelike as possible trainees work in fully-equipped site cabins, which are identical to those found on any building site. They then have to deal with demanding site-management scenarios that are based on real-life situations with site personnel, colleagues, and members of the public played by professional actors.
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Ergonomics tuition modules for designer training
A project by KAN
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This is a project providing online and offline learning modules for engineers to increase their knowledge on ergonomics. This project was initiated by KAN (Commission for Occupational Health and Safety and Standardisation), Germany.
During their training, engineers currently receive very little tuition in human engineering. The corresponding topics are adequately included in training only at institutions with human engineering departments. KAN's objective was therefore to facilitate the integration of knowledge from the areas of occupational safety and health and ergonomics into the training of designers, thereby contributing to products, work equipment and workplaces satisfying ergonomics and safety standards.
To achieve this aim, it was considered necessary to create dedicated tuition modules on ergonomics.
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Shattered lives
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"Shattered Lives" is a campaign of the Health and Safety Executive, UK. Nearly 11000 workers suffered serious injury as a result of a slip or trip in the UK last year. Reducing this unnecessary injury toll is a priority. Users are supposed to find out what happens when workers are put at risk and what they can do to stop slips and trips in their workplace. The website, posters and brochures offer examples from five different idustries: Food Retail, Food & Drink Manufacturing, Catering, Building & Plant Maintenance and Construction. For each industry, one worker and the story of his accident is being presented to show what can happen at work.
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The Irish National Training and Employment Authority (FÁS) has produced, in cooperation with The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA), two books as a learning resource for participants on FÁS "Skills for Work" programmes. ‘Steps to Safety’ caters for participants with English language needs and those with very low literacy skills. This book could be used as a pre-intervention resource for the main workbook ‘Safe and Well’, which contains a CD-ROM with information delivered through text and video with interactive exercises that students can try out.
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QuetschQuitt
Campaign for diminution of contusion injuries
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This campaign by the German Institute for Teaching and Media Development is supposed to bring about changes in the perception of risks and the care behaviour and raising the conformity with rules among the employees, especially dealing with the danger of suffering contusion injuries.
A couple of mederated events help the employees perceiving dangers and risks.
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Health and Safety Training of Teachers of Technology Subjects
Teacher training by the HSA
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The Health and Safety Authority (UK) is supporting an initiative of the second level support service for technology teachers to provide training to all 1800 technology teachers in the second level system.
These include teachers of Design and Communication Graphics, Material Technologies, Engineering Technology, Construction Studies (Architectural Technology) and Technical Graphics.
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Construction Professionnel Card
(TPC Project)
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The Spanish Fundación Laboral de la Construcción (Labour Foundation for the Construction Industry) has launched the project "Construction Professionnel Card" to improve standardization in OSH for the construction sector. The card is a plastic card with magnetic band with different functionalities, such as validation of S&H training, validation of professional ranking and experience within the sector as well as access to the services of the Fundación Laboral de la Construcción.
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Picnic-basket for the prevention of stress attacks
BGN – Statutory Accident Insurance for the food and restaurant business Germany
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Working in the hospitality industry is marked by a high degree of emotional work. Handling guests, their complaints and special wishes requires good nerves and often brings about stress, time pressure and hectic. It is necessary to treat these burdens consciously and develop strategies for working life. The BGN (Statutory Accident Insurance for the food and restaurant business) Germany offers an interactive Website called "The Picnic Basket" with different interactive offers, e.g: coping with stress; managing and cooperation; communication; qualification and emotional competence.
The aim of this offer is to show connections between psychic misuse and health and bring gastronomes towards an active prevention. The Website contains a wide range of offers: interactive online-tests on stress, short films from everyday working life, which can be commented on and Listening-potpourri „The emotional parachute“ on the topic of emotional competence in the hospitality industry. Furthermore, the website presents posters, brochures and articles for reading and downloading.
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