INFORCOOP is the Training Institute of Legacoop, Lega Nazionale delle Cooperative e Mutue the important Italian Association of co-operatives and mutual aid associations. Inforcoop was established in 1982 as a second level (not for profit) co-operative that associates about 20 regional training agencies, social co-operatives, a number of research and consultancy companies specially focused on Social Economy, as well as co-operatives and other enterprises, all of which adhere to the Legacoop system.
Legacoop Servizi associated more than 2,500 cooperatives that offer a very wide range of services and benefits, from transport and handling catering, cleaning services from health and sanitation, transport people to the cultural heritage. This is business-intensive work, which also showed a significant development in terms of employment.
APSHSTDC is a Non Governmental association for international development and cooperation, recognized as a public interest entity, by the Portuguese Foreign Office. The aim of the association is to Cooperate, conceptualize, execute and support social, cultural, environmental, civic and economic programs to education towards development.
COCETA is the Spanish Organization which represents the 18.960 workers cooperatives existing in Spain. COCETA has at its disposal 16 regional structures with highly qualified technical staff, specialized in Cooperativism in different areas of action and an infrastructure which makes these regional confederate organisations operative and also effective in their field of activity. Likewise, it participates as a social agent in the drawing up of the regulations which affect cooperative companies and, through the confederate sector of AWC of social initiative, participates in projects aimed at social integration and local and regional development.
Oltremodo is a company very active in communication, video production and web. Recently created by the union of two Italian co-operatives (Pixel Doctor specializing in multimedia and video and Co.la.ser, with an extensive experience in the services sector.
ESFERA is composed by several associations from Social Economy at national level. Regions such as Madrid, Castilla y León, Andalucía and Murcia take part in the Federation. Its aims are the promotion of opportunities equality between men and women, the promotion of participation of women in politics, economic, cultural and social areas, fostering the entrepreneurial spirit, the labour and personal conciliation in companies and promoting the Social Economy.
The ANJAF main objective is to carry out activities contributing to socio-professional integration and socio-cultural development of all exposed groups, namely those in a situation of exclusion, in order to promote social harmony. The target population of ANJAF activities is composed by the "exposed groups" or groups in a situation of exclusion such as the long term unemployed, young people looking for their first jobs, the ethnic and cultural minorities, people below the poverty line, one-parent families and women with social integration problems.
Fon.Coop is the National Interprofessional Paritetic Found for Continuing Education of the Cooperatives founded in 2002 by the major organizations representing the Italian cooperatives:Legacoop, AGCI and Confcooperative and Italian trade unions CGIL, CISL, UIL.
Health and Safety at work represents today one of the most important and advanced fields of the social policy of the European Union.
Despite European resolutions and directives on personal protective equipment and workplace safety, and despite national laws and workplace regulations, accidents at work, injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences still are a serious problem in many Member states, and the topic remains one of the priority in order to assure workplace safety and quality.
According to the COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 12 June 1989, on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work, the RECOMANDATION 2007/C 164/01 on prevention of accidents and promotion of safety, the RECOMANDATION 2003/134/CE Enhancing the protection of health and the safety at work of the autonomous workers, information and training of workers represent a legal obligation for the employers. Moreover they are universally recognized as effective measures to improve workplace health and safety and mitigate hazards for workers. Nevertheless to be really effective training must be target tailored and must take into account problems such us indifference and opposition of workers.
This project will tackle some issues relevant to the effective involvement of workers in training on workplace safety in the sector of cleaning services.
The objective of the project is to adapt, improve and transfer from Lazio region to other Italian and European Regions an audiovisual innovative tool for training on safety for national and migrant workers. This tool and methodology has been created by Oltremodo, a company whose Member are cooperatives, acting in the media field in cooperation with the cooperative Colaser acting in the field of cleaning services.
The audiovisual training course presents, in an innovative way, clear and exhaustive information about risk at workplace and suggestion on correct and safe dealings. It could improve the effectiveness the quality and the attractiveness of the trainings on safety at workplace.
The product to be transferred: "The Adventures of Olga and Nino" It is an innovative multimedia training product focused on the European standard for safety in the workplace and on the national legislation transposing European standards, the Legislative Decree no. 81/08.
The video-course has been drafted and engineered to face effectively the risks associated with underestimation of risk by workers, stressing in a fun way, and at the same time with precision and clarity, the behavior to prevent and the correct work procedures.
It consists of six didactic modules each focusing on a specific risk activity (use of chemicals, use of electric tools, environmental risks, risk of slippage, risk of falls from above, attention to the unexpected event), and built on a series of "gag" performed by a professional actor and commented by a worker-actress who reports the errors, indicating the right way to operate.
The simple and natural language, the communicative power of images and special effects and the entertaining style, aims to stimulate the curiosity of the worker and to keep alive his attention to overcoming the "psychological resistance" that often come into play in using audiovisual tools for a teaching purposes.
The consortium is composed of:
Inforcoop - Italy
Oltremodo crossmedia co-think - Italy
APSHSTDC - Portugal
ANJAF - Portugal
COCETA - Spain
ESFERA - Spain
ANCST - National Association of Services Cooperatives - Italy - Silent Partner
Fon.Coop - National Paritetic Found For Lifelong Learning for Cooperatives' Workers - Italy - Silent Partner
The expected results are: the spreading, trough the VET Agencies and the enterprises of the cleaning sector of the output of the project;
the improvement of the effectiveness of the training of workers and consequentially their protection of the health and safety at work.
