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Part VI: Training

The survey also looked at the different types of safety training of workers. Training to be able to carry out a job was common, in 98.5% of the workplaces. Training in the safe handling of materials in general was received in 93.5% of workplaces surveyed, and training in safety procedures in 94.5%. A striking exception to this was in the energy, electricity, gas and water supply industry, where only 72.7% of the workplaces gave training in the safe handling of materials and only 65.2% in safety procedures.

In 95.6% of workplaces surveyed training was carried out by the management, and in 25.5% also by the trade union. In 5% of the workplaces, training was carried out solely by the union in at least some of the three areas of training mentioned above.

80.5% of all respondents considered that the training as adequate. The respondents considered that there was no difference between the adequacy of training received from the management and that received from the trade union.

In 53% of the workplaces, management had produced some education materials on occupational health and safety, and in 23.7% on the general environment. This was more typical of workplaces with at least some degree of foreign ownership. 47.5% of the respondents said that their union had produced some education materials on occupational health and safety, and 17.9% said that their union had produced some education materials on environmental issues.

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