The use of ICT on

H&S training at FLC

José A. Viejo

Training Manager

Luxembourg

November 22nd, 2012

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The

LABOUR

FOUNDATION

FOR THE

CONSTRUCTION

INDUSTRY

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Background

The Foundation is a non-profit paritarian organization,

created by virtue of the National Collective Agreement in 1992.

Its board is composed of:

26 members on behalf of the employers’ organizations.

26 members on behalf of the trade unions.

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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION &TRAINING

VET

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY

OHS

EMPLOYMENT

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Our goals

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21 OHS practice centres

More than 1.700 trainers

More than 140 own textbooks

Quality: ISO 9001:2008

ISO 14001:2004 EFQM: +300

180.000 alumnos

formados en 2009

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Main figures

158.094 workers

trained in 2011

+400 training courses

42 training centers across

the country

Management

Trades

Health & Safety

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About our

FORMER

H&S TRAINING

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COORDINATORS

EMPLOYEES

H&S training in Spain

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1st level of OHS training: to identify the most

frequent risks at the worksite and to implement the

preventive measures that must be taken.

2nd level of OHS training: training focused on the specific job/occupation of each worker.

According to the National Collective

Agreement of the Construction Sector:

Construction Professional Card:

+640,000

H&S training for employees

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Some mistakes

OHS training based on knowledge.

Focus on the law and rules.

Very theoretical classes.

Low participation and interaction.

Trainees’ features and background

were not analyzed.

Learning transfer to the job?

Employees & employers’ main goal: avoid fines.

Training with lack of pedagogical competencies:

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Outcome

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50.000

100.000

150.000

200.000

250.000

300.000

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Accidents

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2.000

4.000

6.000

8.000

10.000

12.000

14.000

16.000

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Incidence rate

… so, what’s the next step?

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Towards a

NEW

H&S TRAINING

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Employer

Constructors Coordinators

Employees

Designers

H&S training: all agents must be involved

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Industrializing the construction process

Designing safety projects since the early

stages: focus on architects, engineers,

promoters, constructors...

How to go further in the long term?

Promoting R&D on S&H in the construction

sector, and creating ways to spread the outcomes

This is challenging, but nowadays it’s a little bit

out of my scope! 13

Doing learning more engaging.

Deployment of inductive methodologies.

Changing attitudes and motivation.

Integrating H&S in the trade training.

Hands-on training, in the worksite if possible.

Guaranteeing the learning transfer to the job.

Doing learning more engaging.

Deployment of inductive methodologies.

Changing attitudes and motivation.

Integrating H&S in the trade training.

Hands-on training, in the worksite if possible.

Guaranteeing the learning transfer to the job.

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By the way, any other suggestions?

Please, let me know: jviejo@fundacionlaboral.org

And here it is when ICT come to FLC

New training approach

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A tip: integrate H&S and trade training

H&S training on its own is not fully powerful.

Operator’s training should include safe work

procedures for every condition & circumstance.

Trainees must be capable to react properly to

whatever breakdown, emergency or incident.

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Assessment system should punish

the lack of prevention, even when

no accident happens.

All above is universally applicable,

even for simulators.

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E-learning Vs distance learning.

Online Campus even for in-classroom courses.

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Videoconferencing:

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Interactive multimedia teaching material

for OHS in-classroom courses.

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Resources for online Campus Case study

Multimedia activities

Resources for classrooms

Real examples

Plan execution and 3D modelling DVD: History of trades

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Hard simulators

Augmented reality (AR)

Online simulators

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It is a live view of a real-world

environment (on a screen),

whose elements are augmented

by computer-generated sensory

input, such as sound, video,

graphics or GPS data.

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Coming soon

Mobile Game Based Learning

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Social Media Learning: towards learning 2.0

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About

SIMULATORS

and H&S

TRAINING

A set made up of hardware & software

recreating:

Real working conditions of machinery,

equipment, etc.

Its labour environment.

An instructional design.

An assessment system.

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What’s a training simulator?

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Why simulators? Training criterion

Optimize the resources in the classroom.

Motivate and sensitize.

Make easy to get fond of machinery’s procedures.

Make possible progressive sequences of exercises.

Allow the debriefing and trace of the trainee

Allow to recreate risks due to interaction between

different machinery and equipment..

Offer the chance to stop simulation when no

respecting procedures.

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Why simulators? Preventive criterion

Make feasible and affordable recreating breakdowns.

Let train under dangerous conditions with NO RISK for:

trainee,

classmates,

machinery, and

environment.

Additional machinery costs (besides renting/depreciation):

Breakdowns

Fuel/electricity

Maintenance

Classes cancelled by weather conditions, etc.

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Why simulators? Economic criterion

They are expensive, but real

machinery is even more:

Machinery per classroom Vs

simulator per trainee

1 trainer per 15 trainees

1 machine per 5 trainees

Efficiency? Control level?

Taking into account your goals regarding the simulator:

Erase unnecessary elements.

Think about the quality level required.

Consider the system portability.

Remember the maintenance cost: updating SW, spare.

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Regarding costs and profitability

Key factor: amortization (no unit price):

Number of trainees per year?

Training budget for the course?

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But they can:

Make easy the initial contact with real machinery.

Reduce the training time with real machinery.

Complement the acquisition of competencies.

Enrich the training.

Show and experiment non-standard situations.

Simulators Vs Machinery

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Can simulators substitute machinery? ABSOLUTELY NOT

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Some ideas to waste money with simulators

Simulator used incidentally, like a curiosity

There is no follow-up system

No correction.

Simulator for self-learning

Simulator as a videogame

Trainers not well trained and engaged.

This is a timid approach that

not allow high impact learning

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Integrate the simulator in the training process

Part of the syllabus, specific time to use it.

Importance of trainee performance tracing system.

Exercise’s parameters for every trainee.

Automatic and enriched assessment: screech of

brakes, useless movements...

It’s a requisite prior to operate real machinery.

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Summing up

1. Using simulators is a strategic decision: impact on

training quality and cost.

2. Simulators must be born from real training needs

and goals.

3. Sometimes, less is more.

4. Its development should be a collaborative process:

H&S experts, operators, trainers, computer engineers.

5. Simulator are beneficial for unexplored aspects

about trade training and OHS training.

6. Simulator’s homologation for official VET?

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Case study: AR

applied to safe

maintenance

Necessities:

Course goal: Increasing more than 30 safe

maintenance basic skills

related to the backhoe in its

mini version:

1CX JCB backhoe

High rate of accidents and breakdowns

in small machinery

Poor maintenance and safety ignorance

Low weight of safe maintenance in operators’ training

Lack of interest in these topics by trainees

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Demo: Video

Challenges faced by AR:

1. Making training more attractive and engaging:

tablets & smartphones.

2. Training in classroom and at worksite: AR works

with both pictures and real machinery.

3. Integrating safe maintenance in the operator training.

4. Transferring learning to real work.

5. Reducing training costs by using mobile devices.

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José A. Viejo

Training manager

jviejo@fundacionlaboral.org

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