The Smart Work training ground is getting ready to welcome first students
The work on creating the only training ground for safety training in Russia located in Krasnoye Selo in the vicinity of St. Petersburg is nearing its completion. The participants of the inter-university seminar on “Actual problems of labor protection,” in which colleagues from other countries also took part, got absolutely convinced about that. The seminar took place on March 12 at the new training ground.
On a sightseeing tour
The Smart Work training ground is designed to improve occupational safety and reduce injuries at construction sites. A significant part of the classes will be conducted through interactive training modules.
Each module consists of two parts that demonstrate the correct and incorrect execution of potentially hazardous jobs: finishing, welding, electrical, carpentry, with containers and pipelines of high pressure, concrete jobs with the use of concrete pumps, earthwork, lifting and work at heights.
Nadezhda Subbotina is showing a training interactive module
“How did this person get injured?” Nadezhda Subbotina, assistant professor at the Department of Technosphere Safety, asked the students during the test lesson. Students reconstructed the course of events and list the errors that had led to harmful consequences.
The seminar program included the presentation of the Smart Work training computer program created on the basis of virtual reality technologies. The actual version was introduced by a specialist of the Scientific and Educational Center for Labor Protection in Construction (SEC LPC) Omar Shakshak:
Work at the training ground is carried out as part of the SAFECON international project. The SAFECON project is part of the Russia-Southeast Finland 2014–2020 Cross-Border Cooperation Program, which is funded by the European Union, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Finland.
✔ Project partners concerned with improving the efficiency of training in the field of labor protection participated in the seminar.
Classes at the Smart Work training ground are designed to form a safe behavioral model of employees for students. This model implies that the employee complies with all instructions, rules and regulations, including when no one is watching them. To achieve this goal, students in an interactive environment that simulates work processes are involved in various situations that are possible at the workplace. As a result, the students are clearly aware of the risks to the health and life in the event of non-compliance with safety standards, and they receive a psychological pattern attitude to comply with the standards, not “for the show”, but for their own well-being.
Participants of the inter-university seminar on “Actual problems of labor protection”
Speaking at the seminar, Executive Director of the Association of the SRO Unified Center of Labor Protection Specialists and the Association of the Association of Organizations Providing Services in the Field of Labor Protection, SRO, Irina Belova noted:
- The participants in our associations have a large number of training centers for labor protection. We want to attract them to use this training ground in our educational processes.
Director of SEC DTC, Head of the SPbGASU Department of Technosphere Safety, Vitaly Tsaplin, Candidate of Military Science, in his turn emphasized:
- Irina Belova represents associations uniting labor protection specialists not only from the construction field, but also from other industries. Cooperation with them will give us the opportunity to significantly expand the range of organizations interested in using the Smart Work training ground.
Assistant Coordinator of the National Association of Builders (NOSTROY) in the North-West Federal District Evgenia Pozhar continued on the topic:
- At the St. Petersburg International Labor Forum, held on February 27–28, we presented a large stand with an installation on welding and a mock training ground. We want to continue to inform the broadest possible circle of specialists about the training ground. Our immediate plans include presentation of the project in Kaliningrad and holding two large seminars on labor protection in St. Petersburg, where the first results of using the training ground will be discussed.
✔Vitaliy Tsaplin came up with a proposal to create an Internet portal, i.e., an interactive coordination and information system for managing the training of construction workers. It is assumed that the portal will bring together Russian and Finnish specialists providing training on labor protection.
Such a portal should include:
- A platform for online consultations with experts in the field of labor protection, who will be able to join working groups in various areas to solve the tasks
- A library of regulatory documents and teaching materials on labor protection
- A databank of employees of organizations - members of
One of the areas of work of the portal is the examination of teaching materials. They can be uploaded to the site for peer review and refinement. This will allow only high-quality and relevant training materials to be used in educational institutions.
The Smart Labor training ground is already in demand by various categories of students. So, on March 2, a group of students from the Centers for the Promotion of Family Education in St. Petersburg visited the training ground. Their visit took place as part of the PAZL career guidance program for orphans, developed by the Future Leaders Support Fund for Talented Youth. One of the lines of the program is a series of events named “Build your future profession”, where participants get acquainted with the construction industry. As part of this line, the students visited the training ground.
Text: Tatyana Petrova
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