How to Help provide students with safe learning experiences during Work based learning?
The work relating to providing students with a safe work based learning begins before a student enters the company where (s)he will do the placement. To ensure a safe learning experience the student, the mentoring teacher and the work mentor should work together and address issues that students must be aware of when it comes to work safety in companies. The mentoring sessions should be scheduled in the students´ curricula and become a normal part of the mentoring of students taking part in work based learning. In the video below you can look at a video where an employer, a work mentor and a student from Norway discusses what they do to ensure safe learning experiences for students doing WBL
Mentoring as such is important when it comes to providing safe learning experiences. The teacher and work mentor have an important role and must support, encourage and show how a student needs to act and work according to health and safety laws and regulations. To learn more about mentoring we recommend that you visit the Appmentor online course for mentoring and coaching at work
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AppMentor online course for mentoring and coaching at work
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responsibilities, obligations and rights of the three parties when it comes to work safety during work based learning
Before a student enters a work placement it is important that each party checks their responsibilities, obligations and rights concerning work safety. Below you can review the responsibilities the different parties have when it comes to work based learning within vocational education and training in the fields of metal work and construction.
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Working alone without supervision.
Working alone is not always harmful or dangerous as such however working alone comes with a heightened risk of injury especially if the job requires the use of dangerous machinery or hazardous work methods in circumstances where the probability of a serious injury is higher than average. Students under 18 years of age are not permitted to work alone if there is a clear risk of injury inherent in the work. Students above 18 should also always have a work mentor nearby when (s)he is working with tools that are considered as dangerous.
Shared workplaces
The term ‘shared workplace’ means a workplace where employees/students of several employers and/or independent contractors are working simultaneously. Usually, each construction site has one employer who has principal control and who thus has broader responsibilities than the other parties operating on the same site. This principal employer must inform the other employers, their employees/students and independent contractors
- of the hazards and risks on the site
- of safety instructions
- of procedures related to firefighting, first aid and evacuation and of the persons assigned to manage the above
- coordinate the activities of the employers and independent contractors operating on the site
- organise access and movement on the site
- ensure that the site is neat and tidy as required for its safety and healthiness
- manage other overall planning of the site
- manage the overall safety of work circumstances on the site.
On the other hand, the other employers and independent contractors on the construction site must inform the principal employer and other employers/students of any hazards or risks that their operations may cause on the site. They must also ensure for their part that the work they do will not jeopardise the safety or health of anyone else working on the same site. In addition to this, each employer must look out for his own employees/students in accordance with the existing legislation