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Focus Group: 9th May 2018, Düsseldorf (Germany)
May 11th, 2018. Last May 9th, the West German Chamber of Trades Council, Westdeutscher Handwerkskammertag (WHKT), organized a focus group to know the main risks and obstacles that the professionals find on the construction site when they are implementing safety measures.
The lack of preparation and the awareness of the dangers are ones of the causes that hinder to carry out work safely by the German construction professionals. Experts argued that well experienced workers tend to neglect a proper preparation for possibly dangerous tasks in their daily work because they underestimate the dangers. Finally, they considered that use an innovative and technological training system in this field are very usefully for the youth to turn to the sector and to improve their learning through the experiential component.
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Focus Group: April 2018, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
April 13th, 2018. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (CCIS CCBMIS) organized, last April 12, a focus group with national experts in Health and Safety to identify the main risks, and the preventive and the training needs of work at height in the construction.
The meeting, held at the CCIS CCBMIS Vocational Education and Training (VET) center in Ljubljana, coincided with the celebration of the internacional competition of the Knauf Junior Trophy, and was attended by: directors or heads of VET centers in the sector; staff of the national legislative body; construction employers; and teaching staff, with the aim of providing a pedagogical vision of this issue.
During the debate, the participants addressed the situation of Occupational Risk Prevention in Slovenia now, addressing the moment in which construction professionals should be training, and specifically in work at height. In addition, they focused on the importance of physical abilities and balance for the proper performance of their work activities. In relation to this, they discussed about the benefit of simulators and innovative didactic tools in the acquisition of competences and the qualification of workers.
