”Train-the-Trainer Seminar”: the worker protection

“Train-the-Trainer Seminar”, the online event dedicated to the worker protection held by Efbww and Epf.

The European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (Efbww) and the European Wood-Based Panels Federation (Epf) jointly organised an online “Train-the-Trainer Seminar” on enhancing worker protection, attracting more than 200 registered participants from more than 25 countries.

This seminar is the first event in the EC financed project to stimulate the adoption and implementation of the Efbww/Epf joint voluntary agreement, entitled “Action Guide on Formaldehyde“, at national and company level. lt follows the co-signature of this voluntary agreement on 30 November 2018 on improving workers’ protection in the panel industry from potential exposure to formaldehyde.

Focus was put on the objectives of the Action Guide and on the importance of prevention. Furthermore, Gundula Wagner, Head of Centrai Analytic department at Pfleiderer offered detailed explanations and training on the Action Guide in three specific sessions. AII participants welcomed and appreciated the pragmatic nature of the Action Guide as a management system, focusing primarily on prevention and on limiting potential exposure through creating awareness, motivation and responsibility of workers, supervisors and management.

Danny Scheerlinck representing DG Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission stateci: “I am impressed by the number of participants and by the superb quality of the presentations and the organisation“.