1. Projects and their impact on Trade Union Education
Nikos Nikolaou
Cyprus Workers Confederation - SEK

2. Using Projects to fund activities such as training that otherwise would have been impossible

4. Aims and Objectives The aims of the project is to provide:
A comprehensive
High quality and
gainful
training in the area of Risk Assessment at the workplace.
The objectives included:
The development of 10 training modules for various sectors of economic activity for risk assessment at the workplace
The development of a user friendly end product to be used as a training guide as well a training tool for trainers.

5. The Project Partners: Duration of the project: 15/11/2004 – 14/10/2007
10 organizations for 6 countries (Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Denmark, Lithuania and Romania)
Etui - HESA was a “silent” partner
HRDA was the external evaluator
Duration of the project: 15/11/2004 – 14/10/2007
Total Budget: 553,772 euro

6. Work packages WP 1. Project management
WP 2. Identification of training needs
WP 3. Development of methodologies
WP 4. Development of the training
material
WP 5. Evaluation – Quality control
WP 6. Dissemination plan

7. Sectors of Economic Activity
Title of the sector
Responsible Partner
M0: General module
SEK
M1: Cement industry
CYSHA
M2: Construction
OTS
M3: Metal processing workshops
ELINYAE
M4: Textile industry
M5: Land transport KC
M6: Car repair workshops
M7: Road side services, including emergency services
and road maintenance services
M8: Bank services
M9: Hotels and restaurants
M10: Health services

8. Identification of training needs
Having chosen the economic sectors, the survey for the identification of the training needs concentrated on the employees of these sectors, and a questionnaire was developed and distributed to the target group.

9. Identification of training needs
Aim of the questionnaire was the identification:
of the knowledge of the target group on issues related to risk assessment,
its ability to identify the risks at its own workplace and
the actual occurrence of actual occupational risks for which no measures have been taken.

10. Identification of training needs
The distribution of the questionnaire was extensive and the target number was 100 employees per sector (approximately 1000 questionnaires) in each participating country.
In most cases the questionnaire was given in person by trained interviewers.

11. Structure of the training modules for the sectors
Each of the 10 modules was planned to provide 15 hours of training
Each of the modules developed questions aiming to the identification of:
The level of knowledge of employees in different economic sectors of issues related to risk assessment
The training needs of the workers on the related issues
The view of the workers, on health and safety issues within their own working environment.

12. Module contents The structure was based on:
Identification of the sources of hazards
The needs of each job position
For each category of hazards there was a small introduction
For each activity there was a description of:
The main consequences on health
Safety precautions and safety tools support by visual aids (pictures)
Also, in each module there were:
Risk assessment forms and checklists
Tests and
Bibliography

13. Evaluation
All modules we evaluated in terms of complicity and correctness of the material by the Labour Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labour
The whole structure of the training package was commented by ETUI - HESA
The whole programme was evaluated in terms of efficiency of the end product by the Cyprus Human Resource Development Authority (external evaluator)
Pilot implementations were carried for all modules in all the countries and the feedback received by the participants was used to finalize the end product

14. End product
The material is available in 5 languages: Greek, English, German, Lithuanian and Romanian
The material is available on an interactive base through which the learner has the chance to choose the sectors of interest, look through the material with specific information and make her/his own notes and adjust training based on his/her needs
A booklet based on each sector of economic activity has been produced that includes basic information on the procedures of risk assessment and main sources of risk in each sector

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16. How to ensure continues projects
Training is very Important as,
It ensures quality in the proposals
It ensures quality in the end product
It ensures the necessary financing to develop and to promote trade union strategies

17. ETUI… Helps us realize these,