Ponencia de José A. Viejo, director de Formación de la Fundación Laboral de la Construcción, en la conferencia sobre 'Prevención ante los riesgos laborales: simulaciones, entrenamientos, formación y soluciones para el futuro' organizada por el Institut de Formation Sectoriel du Bâtiment y el Ministerio de Trabajo del Gobierno de Luxemburgo, celebrada el 22 de noviembre de 2012.

1. The use of ICT on
H&S training at FLC
José A. Viejo Luxembourg
Training Manager November 22nd, 2012
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2. The
LABOUR
FOUNDATION
FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION
INDUSTRY
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3. ICT on H&S training
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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4. ICT on H&S training
Our goals
VET OHS E
VOCATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT
EDUCATION HEALTH & SAFETY
&TRAINING
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5. ICT on H&S training
Main figures
180.000
158.094
alumnos 42 training
workers +400 training centers across
formados en
trained in
2009 courses the country
2011
Quality:
21 OHS ISO 9001:2008
practice More than More than 140
1.700 trainers ISO 14001:2004
centres own textbooks
EFQM: +300
Management
Trades
Health & Safety
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6. About our
FORMER
H&S TRAINING
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7. ICT on H&S training
H&S training in Spain
EMPLOYEES
COORDINATORS
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8. ICT on H&S training
H&S training for employees
According to the National Collective
Agreement of the Construction Sector:
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.
Construction Professional Card:
+640,000
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9. ICT on H&S training
Some mistakes
 Employees & employers’ main goal: avoid fines.
 Training with lack of pedagogical competencies:
 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?
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10. ICT on H&S training
Outcome
Accidents Incidence rate
300.000 16.000
250.000 14.000
12.000
200.000 10.000
150.000 8.000
100.000 6.000
4.000
50.000 2.000
0 0
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
… so, what’s the next step?
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11. Towards a
NEW
H&S TRAINING
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12. ICT on H&S training
H&S training: all agents must be involved
Designers Employer
Employees
Coordinators Constructors
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13. ICT on H&S training
How to go further in the long term?
Industrializing the construction process
Designing safety projects since the early
stages: focus on architects, engineers,
promoters, constructors...
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!
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14. ICT on H&S training
New training approach
 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.
And here it is when ICT come to FLC
By the way, any other suggestions?
Please, let me know: jviejo@fundacionlaboral.org
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15. 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.
 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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16. ICT at
FOUNDATION
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17. ICT on H&S training
E-learning Vs distance learning.
Online Campus even for in-classroom courses.
Videoconferencing:
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18. ICT on H&S training
Interactive multimedia teaching material
for OHS in-classroom courses.
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19. ICT on H&S training
Case study Resources for online Campus
Multimedia activities
Real examples
Resources for classrooms
Plan execution and 3D modelling DVD: History of trades
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20. ICT on H&S training
Hard simulators Online simulators
Augmented reality (AR)
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.

21. ICT on H&S training
Coming soon
 Mobile Game Based Learning
 Social Media Learning: towards learning 2.0
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22. About
SIMULATORS
and H&S
TRAINING
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23. What’s a training simulator?
 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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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
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25. ICT on H&S training
Why simulators? Preventive criterion
 Make feasible and affordable recreating breakdowns.
 Let train under dangerous conditions with NO RISK for:
 trainee,
 classmates,
 machinery, and
 environment.
 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? 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?
Additional machinery costs (besides renting/depreciation):
 Breakdowns
 Fuel/electricity
 Maintenance
 Classes cancelled by weather conditions, etc. 26

27. Regarding costs and profitability
 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.
Vs
 Key factor: amortization (no unit price):
 Number of trainees per year?
 Training budget for the course? 27

28. ICT on H&S training
Simulators Vs Machinery
Can simulators substitute machinery? ABSOLUTELY NOT
Vs
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. 28

29. 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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30. 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.
Rigorous training approach for real work!!! 30

31. 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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32. Case study: AR
applied to safe
maintenance
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33. Necessities:
 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
Course goal:
Increasing more than 30 safe
maintenance basic skills
related to the backhoe in its
mini version:
1CX JCB backhoe
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34. 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.
Demo: Video
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35. José A. Viejo
Training manager
jviejo@fundacionlaboral.org
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