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<\/div>Training sessions have enabled the company to reduce the number of work accidents to below the national average for the forest sector.<\/h3><\/div><\/blockquote>\n
Altri Florestal has been providing training at the work front since 1998. It all began with quality management certification. Achieving ISO 9001 accreditation for its production of eucalyptus logs and pulp for paper incentivised the company to implement a quality management system whereby it promotes and monitors the continuous improvement of the organisation\u2019s products, services and efficiency. The company ended up implementing the Integrated Forest Management System which resulted from the principles and criteria for forest management borrowed from the two most widely-adopted standards in the world (FSC\u00ae \u2013 Forest Stewardship Council\u00ae (1) and PEFC\u2122 \u2013 Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification.<\/p>\n
Under the remit of both these certifications, Altri Florestal encourages its partners and suppliers of raw materials to obtain accreditation, and provides technical support to help form and run producer groups, to ensure it buys certified timber.<\/p>\n
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Innovation: a mobile classroom<\/h2>\n
Altri Florestal has for almost two decades been providing training at the work front, and teaching content which has been updated and improved over the years, to keep up with the developments in that area of business. The company has constantly sought to perfect its training and enhance conditions in the workplace. This desire for improvement led to the possibility of equipping the company with a new facility for providing training in situ. This new facility makes it easier and more practical for employees to attend training sessions. The development entailed converting a van into a classroom, to create a mobile training space. The vehicle is equipped with a video and sound system, which makes it easier to present information to the employees.<\/p>\n
The idea came about after Miguel Silveira, the director of Altri Florestal, noticed that at the group\u2019s factories \u2013 specifically at Celbi \u2013 the video about safety procedures shown to all suppliers at the factory entrance was a very effective way of conveying information. Since operators were sent out to different work fronts in the forest, and given the distance to the training sites, why not create a mobile classroom? Pedro Serafim explains the thinking behind the idea: \u201cWe don\u2019t have many people on each job, but we do have many jobs scattered around the entire country. This facility could be very useful in providing our employees with better working conditions.\u201d It was therefore decided to set the idea in motion, so a van was purchased and the passenger compartment converted into a small classroom. This required an investment of around 80 thousand Euros including the work performed by MOBIPeople, a company from Coimbra which is very well-known within the sector for adapting vans for tourist companies.<\/p>\n
<\/div>The great challenge arising in terms of developing training initiatives is working on improving behaviours.<\/h3><\/div><\/blockquote>\n
The new facility was rolled out in October 2016, and had added a new dimension to disseminating information. Passing the message from paper onto video is a great bonus which has helped to draw employees\u2019 attention. Furthermore, the van provides physical protection for the instructor and trainees, shielding them from the weather, wind and sun, and enabling them to sit down in a covered space right on the frontline of the job. Everyone involved behaves differently in Altri Florestal\u2019s training van than in a traditional classroom setting. According to Pedro Serafim, people are less inhibited when watching the information on video format, and end up talking about the appropriate conduct. \u201cThat\u2019s what we want to achieve. To pack up the classroom and take it to the work site, providing as much comfort as possible, sheltered from the rain, wind and sun.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2016 around 900 training sessions were performed at the work front without the Training Van, and 70 training sessions are planned for this year using the Van.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>The Numbers<\/h2>
\n120<\/span> suppliers
\n250<\/span> employees trained per year
\n900<\/span> training sessions were performed at the work front in 2016
\n70<\/span> training sessions per year undertaken using the van
\n9,000<\/span> kilometres travelled by the mobile classroom
\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nImportance of the video<\/h2>\n
The videos are around seven or eight minutes long and are centred around the unacceptable safety risks inherent to forestry work. The main threats relating to forest work are identified during these training sessions. Employees are told that under no circumstances must they run these risks, and explanations are given regarding the consequences of doing so, and the types of accidents which could happen, and how to avoid them by complying with the instructions given during training.<\/p>\n
<\/div>The van is equipped with a sound and video system which makes it easier to present information to employees. This allows the message to be broadcast by showing videos which depict the best environmental and safety practices for each job to be performed.<\/h3><\/div><\/blockquote>\n
Ac\u00e1cio Jos\u00e9 Henriques, a forest foreman, says that the importance of these training sessions at the work front helps to convey to forest workers the precautions and safety procedures they must implement during the course of their work. Ac\u00e1cio Henriques deals with suppliers and employees on a daily basis. He is one of the permanent members of staff at Altri who ensures that these training sessions are undertaken in situ. From speaking to employees, he has gleaned that they recognise the benefits of such training. \u201cThese sessions help them understand dangerous situations which may arise from not using their equipment correctly, such as their high-visibility jacket, hard hat or gloves.\u201d Whenever a job starts, training is given to explain safety principles, a short manual is presented containing different information, and all the safety procedures are revised. According to Ac\u00e1cio Henriques, \u201cwhen we have the training van with us, it\u2019s easier to show this information to employees, since it is presented in the video which draws people\u2019s attention much better than an explanation from a manual written on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n
The plan is for each employee, from the north of Portugal to the south, to have at least one session in the van per year. This is the stipulated minimum. There are situations where the number of visits is higher. Jo\u00e3o Reis, head of the Western Forest Region at Altri Florestal, explains that whenever a works contract commences, he coordinates with Pedro Serafim to make sure that the van comes to give a training session. \u201cWe both look at the vehicle\u2019s availability taking certain factors into account, such as the suppliers with whom we are working and how long the job is going to last. On larger jobs, the work involves several suppliers and since it\u2019s a larger job the risks are also greater\u201d, says Jo\u00e3o Reis. He concludes \u201cThis is why the classroom van has come to this work site for the third time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The great challenge arising in terms of developing training initiatives is working on improving behaviours. Using machines safely is something that employees have internalised extremely well, which is a very positive result of the strategy of repeating frontline training sessions. The problem which still persists regarding accidents at work relates to attitude. Pedro Serafim explains that \u201cthey are very repetitive jobs in which we must always be proactive to ensure that employees recognise they can\u2019t overstep certain boundaries, and that if they do they might cause an accident\u201d. According to Serafim, Altri Florestal\u2019s head of biodiversity and forest certification, the next step is to endeavour to understand near accidents, those times when an accident almost happened but ended up being avoided. \u201cFrom a safety and training point of view, it\u2019s a more challenging job to try to understand these occasions and what led up to them, rather than just trying to prevent an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n
First Aid workshop<\/h2>
\nAccidents can be minimised, but they cannot be avoided. They are not scheduled with the time and place where they will occur. Since we know accidents will happen, and that jobs in the forestry sector often take place in areas with little or no signposts and with no phone coverage, the First Aid administered to someone who has had an accident is extremely important. In the case of serious accidents, First Aid can be a matter of life and death.<\/p>\nTo prevent these situations, Altri Florestal in partnership with EuroPGS, provides First Aid training for its employees with precise instructions on what to do in the even of an accident, both in terms of the aid given on the spot and also how to inform the 112 emergency services of the exact location and severity of the accident, thereby enabling help to come as quickly as possible and assistance to be given rapidly and effectively.
\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":"Some jobs are more prone to accidents than others. People who work in forestry know this only too well. Altri Florestal has around 120 forest suppliers spread around the country, from Braga to Monchique.\r\n\r\nThe company has always taken great care to provide frontline training to its suppliers\u2019 employees. These sessions are held by field technicians, the people in charge of forest management. Whenever a job commences, training is given on the activity\u2019s inherent risks and dangers to all employees of the subcontractors who provide forestry services, be they a planter or a machine or chainsaw operator. According to Pedro Serafim who is the head of biodiversity and forest certification at Altri Florestal, \u201ceveryone should have at least 30 minutes of training on all jobs.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe training focuses on the most relevant aspects of each job and is given in situ. The goal? To ensure that everyone finds it much easier to internalise the message about the appropriate procedures to be implemented. Providing the information at the work front means that employees start their work on high alert. This has always been the preferred option, rather than providing more complex and lengthy training lasting one or two days, away from the working environment. The strategy has always been to favour training on the frontline.\r\n\r\nPedro Serafim says that these initiatives have helped to cut down on work-related accidents. He explains that \u201cIn the 10 years, we have had one fatal accident and an average of one occupational accident per year. We would like to drive these numbers down even further, although they are already well below the national average for accidents in the area of forestry\u201d, and adds that they are doing what they can to ensure that no accidents happen in the workplace.\r\n\r\n[blockquote text=\"Training sessions have enabled the company to reduce the number of work accidents to below the national average for the forest sector.\"]\r\n\r\nAltri Florestal has been providing training at the work front since 1998. It all began with quality management certification. Achieving ISO 9001 accreditation for its production of eucalyptus logs and pulp for paper incentivised the company to implement a quality management system whereby it promotes and monitors the continuous improvement of the organisation\u2019s products, services and efficiency. The company ended up implementing the Integrated Forest Management System which resulted from the principles and criteria for forest management borrowed from the two most widely-adopted standards in the world (FSC\u00ae \u2013 Forest Stewardship Council\u00ae (1) and PEFC\u2122 \u2013 Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification.\r\n\r\nUnder the remit of both these certifications, Altri Florestal encourages its partners and suppliers of raw materials to obtain accreditation, and provides technical support to help form and run producer groups, to ensure it buys certified timber.\r\n\r\n[gallery-slick ids=\"552,224,219,226,225,221,227\"]\r\n\r\nInnovation: a mobile classroom<\/h2>\r\nAltri Florestal has for almost two decades been providing training at the work front, and teaching content which has been updated and improved over the years, to keep up with the developments in that area of business. The company has constantly sought to perfect its training and enhance conditions in the workplace. This desire for improvement led to the possibility of equipping the company with a new facility for providing training in situ. This new facility makes it easier and more practical for employees to attend training sessions. The development entailed converting a van into a classroom, to create a mobile training space. The vehicle is equipped with a video and sound system, which makes it easier to present information to the employees.\r\n\r\nThe idea came about after Miguel Silveira, the director of Altri Florestal, noticed that at the group\u2019s factories \u2013 specifically at Celbi \u2013 the video about safety procedures shown to all suppliers at the factory entrance was a very effective way of conveying information. Since operators were sent out to different work fronts in the forest, and given the distance to the training sites, why not create a mobile classroom? Pedro Serafim explains the thinking behind the idea: \u201cWe don\u2019t have many people on each job, but we do have many jobs scattered around the entire country. This facility could be very useful in providing our employees with better working conditions.\u201d It was therefore decided to set the idea in motion, so a van was purchased and the passenger compartment converted into a small classroom. This required an investment of around 80 thousand Euros including the work performed by MOBIPeople, a company from Coimbra which is very well-known within the sector for adapting vans for tourist companies.\r\n\r\n[blockquote text=\"The great challenge arising in terms of developing training initiatives is working on improving behaviours.\"]\r\n\r\nThe new facility was rolled out in October 2016, and had added a new dimension to disseminating information. Passing the message from paper onto video is a great bonus which has helped to draw employees\u2019 attention. Furthermore, the van provides physical protection for the instructor and trainees, shielding them from the weather, wind and sun, and enabling them to sit down in a covered space right on the frontline of the job. Everyone involved behaves differently in Altri Florestal\u2019s training van than in a traditional classroom setting. According to Pedro Serafim, people are less inhibited when watching the information on video format, and end up talking about the appropriate conduct. \u201cThat\u2019s what we want to achieve. To pack up the classroom and take it to the work site, providing as much comfort as possible, sheltered from the rain, wind and sun.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn 2016 around 900 training sessions were performed at the work front without the Training Van, and 70 training sessions are planned for this year using the Van.\r\n\r\n[card title=\"The Numbers\" id_image=\"216\" type=\"dark\"]\r\n120<\/span> suppliers \r\n250<\/span> employees trained per year\r\n900<\/span> training sessions were performed at the work front in 2016\r\n70<\/span> training sessions per year undertaken using the van\r\n9,000<\/span> kilometres travelled by the mobile classroom\r\n[\/card]\r\n\r\n
Importance of the video<\/h2>\r\nThe videos are around seven or eight minutes long and are centred around the unacceptable safety risks inherent to forestry work. The main threats relating to forest work are identified during these training sessions. Employees are told that under no circumstances must they run these risks, and explanations are given regarding the consequences of doing so, and the types of accidents which could happen, and how to avoid them by complying with the instructions given during training.\r\n\r\n[blockquote text=\"The van is equipped with a sound and video system which makes it easier to present information to employees. This allows the message to be broadcast by showing videos which depict the best environmental and safety practices for each job to be performed.\"]\r\n\r\nAc\u00e1cio Jos\u00e9 Henriques, a forest foreman, says that the importance of these training sessions at the work front helps to convey to forest workers the precautions and safety procedures they must implement during the course of their work. Ac\u00e1cio Henriques deals with suppliers and employees on a daily basis. He is one of the permanent members of staff at Altri who ensures that these training sessions are undertaken in situ. From speaking to employees, he has gleaned that they recognise the benefits of such training. \u201cThese sessions help them understand dangerous situations which may arise from not using their equipment correctly, such as their high-visibility jacket, hard hat or gloves.\u201d Whenever a job starts, training is given to explain safety principles, a short manual is presented containing different information, and all the safety procedures are revised. According to Ac\u00e1cio Henriques, \u201cwhen we have the training van with us, it\u2019s easier to show this information to employees, since it is presented in the video which draws people\u2019s attention much better than an explanation from a manual written on paper.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe plan is for each employee, from the north of Portugal to the south, to have at least one session in the van per year. This is the stipulated minimum. There are situations where the number of visits is higher. Jo\u00e3o Reis, head of the Western Forest Region at Altri Florestal, explains that whenever a works contract commences, he coordinates with Pedro Serafim to make sure that the van comes to give a training session. \u201cWe both look at the vehicle\u2019s availability taking certain factors into account, such as the suppliers with whom we are working and how long the job is going to last. On larger jobs, the work involves several suppliers and since it\u2019s a larger job the risks are also greater\u201d, says Jo\u00e3o Reis. He concludes \u201cThis is why the classroom van has come to this work site for the third time.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe great challenge arising in terms of developing training initiatives is working on improving behaviours. Using machines safely is something that employees have internalised extremely well, which is a very positive result of the strategy of repeating frontline training sessions. The problem which still persists regarding accidents at work relates to attitude. Pedro Serafim explains that \u201cthey are very repetitive jobs in which we must always be proactive to ensure that employees recognise they can\u2019t overstep certain boundaries, and that if they do they might cause an accident\u201d. According to Serafim, Altri Florestal\u2019s head of biodiversity and forest certification, the next step is to endeavour to understand near accidents, those times when an accident almost happened but ended up being avoided. \u201cFrom a safety and training point of view, it\u2019s a more challenging job to try to understand these occasions and what led up to them, rather than just trying to prevent an accident.\u201d\r\n\r\n[card title=\"First Aid workshop\"]\r\nAccidents can be minimised, but they cannot be avoided. They are not scheduled with the time and place where they will occur. Since we know accidents will happen, and that jobs in the forestry sector often take place in areas with little or no signposts and with no phone coverage, the First Aid administered to someone who has had an accident is extremely important. In the case of serious accidents, First Aid can be a matter of life and death.\r\n\r\nTo prevent these situations, Altri Florestal in partnership with EuroPGS, provides First Aid training for its employees with precise instructions on what to do in the even of an accident, both in terms of the aid given on the spot and also how to inform the 112 emergency services of the exact location and severity of the accident, thereby enabling help to come as quickly as possible and assistance to be given rapidly and effectively.\r\n[\/card]"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Altri Florestal has decided to take education to the work front, by means of a mobile classroom housed in a customised van where participants are taught about best safety practices at work<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"Altri Florestal has decided to take education to the work front, by means of a mobile classroom housed in a customised van where participants are taught about best safety practices at work"},"author":2,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_pt_post_content":"H\u00e1 trabalhos que t\u00eam tend\u00eancia para maiores riscos de acidentes do que outros. Quem trabalha na \u00e1rea florestal sabe-o. A Altri Florestal conta com cerca de 120 fornecedores florestais dispersos por todo o territ\u00f3rio nacional, de Braga at\u00e9 Monchique.\n\nUm dos cuidados que a empresa sempre teve foi dar forma\u00e7\u00e3o na frente de trabalho aos colaboradores dos seus fornecedores. Essas ac\u00e7\u00f5es s\u00e3o realizadas pelos t\u00e9cnicos de campo, os encarregados da gest\u00e3o florestal. Sempre que se inicia um trabalho (obra), \u00e9 dada uma forma\u00e7\u00e3o sobre os principais riscos e perigos da actividade a todos os colaboradores das empresas subcontratadas que prestam servi\u00e7os florestais, seja uma pessoa que est\u00e1 a plantar, um operador de m\u00e1quina ou um motosserrista. \u201cTodos devem ter um m\u00ednimo de 30 minutos de forma\u00e7\u00e3o em todas as obras\u201d, diz Pedro Serafim, respons\u00e1vel de certifica\u00e7\u00e3o florestal e biodiversidade da Altri Florestal.\n\nO conte\u00fado ministrado foca os aspectos mais relevantes de cada obra e \u00e9 feito no local. O objectivo? Garantir que as pessoas interiorizam a mensagem com os procedimentos adequados de uma forma mais f\u00e1cil. Ao ser dada no local de trabalho, a forma\u00e7\u00e3o permite aos colaboradores iniciarem o trabalho em alerta. Esta sempre foi a op\u00e7\u00e3o em detrimento de promover forma\u00e7\u00f5es mais complexas e de grande dimens\u00e3o, de um ou dois dias, fora do ambiente de trabalho. A estrat\u00e9gia foi sempre privilegiar a forma\u00e7\u00e3o na frente de trabalho.\n\nPedro Serafim conta que estas iniciativas permitiram reduzir os acidentes laborais. \u201cNos \u00faltimos 10 anos, tivemos um acidente de trabalho mortal e h\u00e1, em m\u00e9dia, um acidente de trabalho por ano. S\u00e3o valores que gostar\u00edamos de ver ainda mais reduzidos, apesar de estes j\u00e1 se encontrarem muito abaixo da m\u00e9dia nacional de sinistros relativos \u00e0 actividade florestal\u201d, explica o respons\u00e1vel, acrescentando que trabalham para alcan\u00e7ar uma redu\u00e7\u00e3o at\u00e9 zero acidentes de trabalho.\n\n[blockquote text=\"As forma\u00e7\u00f5es permitiram reduzir os acidentes laborais para valores abaixo da m\u00e9dia nacional relacionada com a actividade florestal.\"]\n\nA forma\u00e7\u00e3o na frente de trabalho \u00e9 uma realidade na Altri Florestal desde 1998. Tudo come\u00e7ou com a certifica\u00e7\u00e3o de gest\u00e3o da qualidade. A obten\u00e7\u00e3o da certifica\u00e7\u00e3o ISO 9001 para a produ\u00e7\u00e3o de rolaria de eucalipto e para a produ\u00e7\u00e3o de pasta de papel incentivou a empresa a implementar um sistema de gest\u00e3o da qualidade atrav\u00e9s do qual se promove e monitoriza a melhoria cont\u00ednua dos produtos e servi\u00e7os e a efici\u00eancia da organiza\u00e7\u00e3o. A empresa acabou por implementar o Sistema Integrado de Gest\u00e3o Florestal, que resultou dos princ\u00edpios e crit\u00e9rios para a gest\u00e3o florestal dos dois referenciais normativos mais difundidos globalmente (FSC\u00ae \u2013 Forest Stewardship Council\u00ae (1) e PEFC\u2122 \u2013 Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification).\n\nAo abrigo destas duas certifica\u00e7\u00f5es, a Altri Florestal promove a certifica\u00e7\u00e3o florestal dos seus parceiros e fornecedores de mat\u00e9ria-prima, com apoio t\u00e9cnico para a constitui\u00e7\u00e3o e o funcionamento dos agrupamentos de produtores, e a consequente aquisi\u00e7\u00e3o de madeira certificada.\n\n[gallery-slick ids=\"552,224,219,226,225,221,227\"]\n
Inova\u00e7\u00e3o: uma sala de forma\u00e7\u00e3o itinerante<\/h2>\nS\u00e3o quase duas d\u00e9cadas de forma\u00e7\u00e3o na frente de trabalho, de conte\u00fados leccionados que, com o passar do tempo, sofreram actualiza\u00e7\u00f5es e melhorias, acompanhando a evolu\u00e7\u00e3o da actividade A procura do aperfei\u00e7oamento da forma\u00e7\u00e3o e de melhores condi\u00e7\u00f5es no local de trabalho \u00e9 uma constante na empresa. Fruto dessa vontade, surgiu a possibilidade de dotar a organiza\u00e7\u00e3o com um novo equipamento para realizar a forma\u00e7\u00e3o no local de trabalho. Este novo equipamento permite passar a mensagem de uma forma mais f\u00e1cil e pr\u00e1tica aos colaboradores. A inova\u00e7\u00e3o chegou atrav\u00e9s da transforma\u00e7\u00e3o de uma carrinha corrente de carga numa sala de forma\u00e7\u00e3o, \u00e9 que permite ter um espa\u00e7o de forma\u00e7\u00e3o m\u00f3vel. O ve\u00edculo est\u00e1 equipado com um sistema de v\u00eddeo e som, o que facilita a apresenta\u00e7\u00e3o dos conte\u00fados aos colaboradores.\n\nA ideia surgiu depois de Miguel Silveira, administrador da Altri Florestal , ter verificado que nas unidades fabris do grupo, nomeadamente na Celbi, o v\u00eddeo sobre os comportamentos de seguran\u00e7a transmitido a todos os fornecedores \u00e0 entrada da f\u00e1brica era muito eficaz na transmiss\u00e3o de conhecimentos. Perante a dispers\u00e3o dos operadores nas frentes de trabalho na Floresta e a dist\u00e2ncia aos locais de forma\u00e7\u00e3o, surgiu a ideia de criar uma forma\u00e7\u00e3o itinerante. \u201cN\u00e3o temos muitas pessoas por obra, mas temos muitas obras espalhadas pelo Pa\u00eds. Este equipamento pode revelar-se muito \u00fatil para dar mais e melhores condi\u00e7\u00f5es de trabalho aos nossos colaboradores\u201d, explica Pedro Serafim. Foi assim que se decidiu avan\u00e7ar com este equipamento, que passou pela compra da carrinha e a adapta\u00e7\u00e3o do habit\u00e1culo para uma pequena sala de forma\u00e7\u00e3o. Um investimento que rondou os 80 mil euros e que incluiu o trabalho desenvolvido pela MOBIPeople, uma empresa de Coimbra muito conhecida no sector, que faz adapta\u00e7\u00f5es de carrinhas para a \u00e1rea do turismo.\n\n[blockquote text=\"O grande desafio que se coloca \u00e0 evolu\u00e7\u00e3o das ac\u00e7\u00f5es de forma\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9 trabalhar melhor os comportamentos.\"]\n\nO novo equipamento foi para o terreno em Outubro de 2016 e trouxe outra capacidade de divulgar o conte\u00fado da forma\u00e7\u00e3o. Passar a mensagem de um suporte em papel para v\u00eddeo \u00e9 uma grande mais-valia que ajudou a captar a aten\u00e7\u00e3o dos colaboradores. A este facto acresce a protec\u00e7\u00e3o f\u00edsica que a carrinha oferece ao formador e aos formandos, protegendo-os da intemp\u00e9rie, do vento ou do sol, permitindo que se sentem num espa\u00e7o coberto que est\u00e1 no local de trabalho. O comportamento \u00e9 muito diferente na carrinha de forma\u00e7\u00e3o da Altri Florestal do que numa sala de forma\u00e7\u00e3o tradicional. Quem o diz \u00e9 Pedro Serafim, justificando esta situa\u00e7\u00e3o com o facto de as pessoas com o conte\u00fado em v\u00eddeo se desinibirem mais, falando assim dos comportamentos que devem ter. \u201c\u00c9 isso que pretendemos atingir. Desmaterializar a sala de aula e transport\u00e1-la para o local de trabalho dando o m\u00e1ximo de conforto poss\u00edvel, fora da chuva, do vento, e do sol.\u201d\n\nCom a Carrinha de Forma\u00e7\u00e3o, est\u00e3o planeadas 70 ac\u00e7\u00f5es de forma\u00e7\u00e3o ano e, sem a carrinha, em 2016, realizaram-se cerca de 900 ac\u00e7\u00f5es de forma\u00e7\u00e3o na frente de trabalho.\n\n[card title=\"Em N\u00fameros\" id_image=\"216\" type=\"dark\"]\n120<\/span> fornecedores\n250<\/span> colaboradores formados \/ ano\n900<\/span> ac\u00e7\u00f5es de forma\u00e7\u00e3o realizadas na frente de trabalho em 2016\n70<\/span> ac\u00e7\u00f5es de forma\u00e7\u00e3o anuais realizadas pela carrinha\n9.000<\/span> quil\u00f3metros percorridos pela sala de forma\u00e7\u00e3o itinerante\n[\/card]\n
Import\u00e2ncia do v\u00eddeo<\/h2>\nOs v\u00eddeos t\u00eam sete ou oito minutos de dura\u00e7\u00e3o e est\u00e3o centrados nos riscos de seguran\u00e7a que n\u00e3o s\u00e3o aceit\u00e1veis no trabalho florestal. As principais amea\u00e7as relacionadas com a actividade florestal est\u00e3o identificadas nestas forma\u00e7\u00f5es. \u00c9 explicado que n\u00e3o se devem correr esses riscos de forma alguma, quais s\u00e3o as consequ\u00eancias e os g\u00e9neros de acidentes que podem acontecer, e como se podem evitar cumprindo as indica\u00e7\u00f5es dadas na forma\u00e7\u00e3o.\n\n[blockquote text=\"A carrinha est\u00e1 equipada com um sistema de v\u00eddeo e som, o que facilita a apresenta\u00e7\u00e3o dos conte\u00fados aos colaboradores. Esta situa\u00e7\u00e3o permite passar a mensagem atrav\u00e9s da visualiza\u00e7\u00e3o de v\u00eddeos com as melhores pr\u00e1ticas de seguran\u00e7a e ambiente na fun\u00e7\u00e3o que v\u00e3o executar.\"]\n\nAc\u00e1cio Jos\u00e9 Henriques, encarregado florestal, afirma a import\u00e2ncia destas forma\u00e7\u00f5es na frente de trabalho e diz que ajudam a transmitir, a quem trabalha na \u00e1rea florestal, os cuidados e os procedimentos de seguran\u00e7a que devem ter no desempenho das suas fun\u00e7\u00f5es. Ac\u00e1cio Henriques lida diariamente com os fornecedores e os colaboradores. Ele \u00e9 um dos quadros da Altri que no local de trabalho assegura que as forma\u00e7\u00f5es s\u00e3o dadas. Nos contactos estabelecidos, os colaboradores reconhecem os benef\u00edcios destas ac\u00e7\u00f5es. \u201cPermitem entender que situa\u00e7\u00f5es de perigo podem surgir pela n\u00e3o utiliza\u00e7\u00e3o do equipamento de forma correcta, como um colete reflector, um capacete ou umas luvas.\u201d Sempre que se inicia uma obra \u00e9 dada uma forma\u00e7\u00e3o com os princ\u00edpios de seguran\u00e7a, \u00e9 apresentado um pequeno manual com informa\u00e7\u00e3o diversa e s\u00e3o revistos os procedimentos de seguran\u00e7a. Ac\u00e1cio Henriques constata que \u201cquando a carrinha de forma\u00e7\u00e3o est\u00e1 presente \u00e9 mais f\u00e1cil mostrar essa informa\u00e7\u00e3o aos colaboradores, visto que se encontra em v\u00eddeo, o que chama mais a aten\u00e7\u00e3o das pessoas do que uma explica\u00e7\u00e3o com um manual de papel\u201d.\n\nExiste um plano anual para a carrinha estar, pelo menos, uma vez por ano com cada fornecedor de norte a sul do Pa\u00eds. Esse \u00e9 o m\u00ednimo estipulado, mas h\u00e1 situa\u00e7\u00f5es em que o n\u00famero de visitas aumenta. Jo\u00e3o Reis, respons\u00e1vel da Regi\u00e3o Florestal Oeste da Altri Florestal, explica que sempre que se inicia uma empreitada, coordena com Pedro Serafim a ida da carrinha para ministrar a forma\u00e7\u00e3o. \u201cAcertamos os dois a disponibilidade da viatura tendo em conta alguns factores, como os fornecedores com os quais estamos a trabalhar e o tempo que o trabalho vai demorar. Em obras de maior dimens\u00e3o, o trabalho \u00e9 feito com v\u00e1rios fornecedores e ao tratar-se de uma obra grande os riscos tamb\u00e9m aumentam\u201d, conta Jo\u00e3o Reis, concluindo que, por esse motivo, \u201ca carrinha com a sala de forma\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9 a terceira vez que se desloca ao local para dar forma\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d.\n\nO grande desafio que se coloca \u00e0 evolu\u00e7\u00e3o das ac\u00e7\u00f5es de forma\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9 trabalhar melhor os comportamentos. A utiliza\u00e7\u00e3o segura das m\u00e1quinas \u00e9 algo que j\u00e1 est\u00e1 bastante interiorizado nos colaboradores. Um resultado positivo da estrat\u00e9gia de repeti\u00e7\u00e3o das forma\u00e7\u00f5es na frente de trabalho. O problema que ainda existe com os acidentes de trabalho reside na atitude. Pedro Serafim explica que \u201cs\u00e3o fun\u00e7\u00f5es muito repetitivas nas quais deve existir sempre uma atitude proactiva para que o trabalhador reconhe\u00e7a que n\u00e3o pode ultrapassar determinados limites, que a partir desse momento ou situa\u00e7\u00e3o pode causar um acidente\u201d. Para o respons\u00e1vel da certifica\u00e7\u00e3o florestal e biodiversidade da Altri Florestal, a pr\u00f3xima aposta ser\u00e1 tentar perceber os quase-acidentes, aqueles momentos em que quase aconteceu um acidente, mas que acabou por n\u00e3o se concretizar. \u201cDo ponto de vista da seguran\u00e7a e da forma\u00e7\u00e3o, este \u00e9 um trabalho mais desafiante, tentar perceber quando acontecem esses momentos e o que os origina, do que apenas tentar evitar o acidente.\u201d\n\n[card title=\"Workshop de primeiros socorros\"]\n\u00c9 poss\u00edvel minimizar a ocorr\u00eancia de acidentes, mas n\u00e3o se podem evitar. Estes acontecimentos n\u00e3o est\u00e3o calendarizados na agenda com a hora e o local em que v\u00e3o acontecer. Sabendo que os azares existem e que os trabalhos desenvolvidos no sector florestal decorrem muitas vezes em zonas com pouca ou nenhuma sinal\u00e9tica e sem cobertura de telefone, os primeiros socorros prestados a um acidentado s\u00e3o de grande import\u00e2ncia. Em casos de acidentes graves, esta ac\u00e7\u00e3o pode significar a diferen\u00e7a entre a vida e a morte.\n\nPara prevenir estas situa\u00e7\u00f5es, a Altri Florestal, em parceria com a EuroPGS, d\u00e1 forma\u00e7\u00e3o de primeiros socorros aos seus colaboradores com indica\u00e7\u00f5es precisas de como actuar em caso de acidente, quer no primeiro socorro que \u00e9 prestado no local, quer na forma como devem comunicar ao 112 a posi\u00e7\u00e3o exacta do acidente e a gravidade do mesmo, permitindo que a ajuda chegue o mais rapidamente poss\u00edvel e o socorro seja prestado com rapidez e efici\u00eancia.\n[\/card]","_pt_post_name":"formacao-sobre-rodas","_pt_post_excerpt":"Uma sala de forma\u00e7\u00e3o m\u00f3vel assente numa carrinha adaptada \u00e9 uma das mais recentes apostas da Altri Florestal para promover as melhores pr\u00e1ticas de seguran\u00e7a no trabalho.","_pt_post_title":"Forma\u00e7\u00e3o sobre rodas","_en_post_content":"Some jobs are more prone to accidents than others. People who work in forestry know this only too well. Altri Florestal has around 120 forest suppliers spread around the country, from Braga to Monchique.\r\n\r\nThe company has always taken great care to provide frontline training to its suppliers\u2019 employees. These sessions are held by field technicians, the people in charge of forest management. Whenever a job commences, training is given on the activity\u2019s inherent risks and dangers to all employees of the subcontractors who provide forestry services, be they a planter or a machine or chainsaw operator. According to Pedro Serafim who is the head of biodiversity and forest certification at Altri Florestal, \u201ceveryone should have at least 30 minutes of training on all jobs.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe training focuses on the most relevant aspects of each job and is given in situ. The goal? To ensure that everyone finds it much easier to internalise the message about the appropriate procedures to be implemented. Providing the information at the work front means that employees start their work on high alert. This has always been the preferred option, rather than providing more complex and lengthy training lasting one or two days, away from the working environment. The strategy has always been to favour training on the frontline.\r\n\r\nPedro Serafim says that these initiatives have helped to cut down on work-related accidents. He explains that \u201cIn the 10 years, we have had one fatal accident and an average of one occupational accident per year. We would like to drive these numbers down even further, although they are already well below the national average for accidents in the area of forestry\u201d, and adds that they are doing what they can to ensure that no accidents happen in the workplace.\r\n\r\n[blockquote text=\"Training sessions have enabled the company to reduce the number of work accidents to below the national average for the forest sector.\"]\r\n\r\nAltri Florestal has been providing training at the work front since 1998. It all began with quality management certification. Achieving ISO 9001 accreditation for its production of eucalyptus logs and pulp for paper incentivised the company to implement a quality management system whereby it promotes and monitors the continuous improvement of the organisation\u2019s products, services and efficiency. The company ended up implementing the Integrated Forest Management System which resulted from the principles and criteria for forest management borrowed from the two most widely-adopted standards in the world (FSC\u00ae \u2013 Forest Stewardship Council\u00ae (1) and PEFC\u2122 \u2013 Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification.\r\n\r\nUnder the remit of both these certifications, Altri Florestal encourages its partners and suppliers of raw materials to obtain accreditation, and provides technical support to help form and run producer groups, to ensure it buys certified timber.\r\n\r\n[gallery-slick ids=\"552,224,219,226,225,221,227\"]\r\n\r\n
Innovation: a mobile classroom<\/h2>\r\nAltri Florestal has for almost two decades been providing training at the work front, and teaching content which has been updated and improved over the years, to keep up with the developments in that area of business. The company has constantly sought to perfect its training and enhance conditions in the workplace. This desire for improvement led to the possibility of equipping the company with a new facility for providing training in situ. This new facility makes it easier and more practical for employees to attend training sessions. The development entailed converting a van into a classroom, to create a mobile training space. The vehicle is equipped with a video and sound system, which makes it easier to present information to the employees.\r\n\r\nThe idea came about after Miguel Silveira, the director of Altri Florestal, noticed that at the group\u2019s factories \u2013 specifically at Celbi \u2013 the video about safety procedures shown to all suppliers at the factory entrance was a very effective way of conveying information. Since operators were sent out to different work fronts in the forest, and given the distance to the training sites, why not create a mobile classroom? Pedro Serafim explains the thinking behind the idea: \u201cWe don\u2019t have many people on each job, but we do have many jobs scattered around the entire country. This facility could be very useful in providing our employees with better working conditions.\u201d It was therefore decided to set the idea in motion, so a van was purchased and the passenger compartment converted into a small classroom. This required an investment of around 80 thousand Euros including the work performed by MOBIPeople, a company from Coimbra which is very well-known within the sector for adapting vans for tourist companies.\r\n\r\n[blockquote text=\"The great challenge arising in terms of developing training initiatives is working on improving behaviours.\"]\r\n\r\nThe new facility was rolled out in October 2016, and had added a new dimension to disseminating information. Passing the message from paper onto video is a great bonus which has helped to draw employees\u2019 attention. Furthermore, the van provides physical protection for the instructor and trainees, shielding them from the weather, wind and sun, and enabling them to sit down in a covered space right on the frontline of the job. Everyone involved behaves differently in Altri Florestal\u2019s training van than in a traditional classroom setting. According to Pedro Serafim, people are less inhibited when watching the information on video format, and end up talking about the appropriate conduct. \u201cThat\u2019s what we want to achieve. To pack up the classroom and take it to the work site, providing as much comfort as possible, sheltered from the rain, wind and sun.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn 2016 around 900 training sessions were performed at the work front without the Training Van, and 70 training sessions are planned for this year using the Van.\r\n\r\n[card title=\"The Numbers\" id_image=\"216\" type=\"dark\"]\r\n120<\/span> suppliers \r\n250<\/span> employees trained per year\r\n900<\/span> training sessions were performed at the work front in 2016\r\n70<\/span> training sessions per year undertaken using the van\r\n9,000<\/span> kilometres travelled by the mobile classroom\r\n[\/card]\r\n\r\n
Importance of the video<\/h2>\r\nThe videos are around seven or eight minutes long and are centred around the unacceptable safety risks inherent to forestry work. The main threats relating to forest work are identified during these training sessions. Employees are told that under no circumstances must they run these risks, and explanations are given regarding the consequences of doing so, and the types of accidents which could happen, and how to avoid them by complying with the instructions given during training.\r\n\r\n[blockquote text=\"The van is equipped with a sound and video system which makes it easier to present information to employees. This allows the message to be broadcast by showing videos which depict the best environmental and safety practices for each job to be performed.\"]\r\n\r\nAc\u00e1cio Jos\u00e9 Henriques, a forest foreman, says that the importance of these training sessions at the work front helps to convey to forest workers the precautions and safety procedures they must implement during the course of their work. Ac\u00e1cio Henriques deals with suppliers and employees on a daily basis. He is one of the permanent members of staff at Altri who ensures that these training sessions are undertaken in situ. From speaking to employees, he has gleaned that they recognise the benefits of such training. \u201cThese sessions help them understand dangerous situations which may arise from not using their equipment correctly, such as their high-visibility jacket, hard hat or gloves.\u201d Whenever a job starts, training is given to explain safety principles, a short manual is presented containing different information, and all the safety procedures are revised. According to Ac\u00e1cio Henriques, \u201cwhen we have the training van with us, it\u2019s easier to show this information to employees, since it is presented in the video which draws people\u2019s attention much better than an explanation from a manual written on paper.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe plan is for each employee, from the north of Portugal to the south, to have at least one session in the van per year. This is the stipulated minimum. There are situations where the number of visits is higher. Jo\u00e3o Reis, head of the Western Forest Region at Altri Florestal, explains that whenever a works contract commences, he coordinates with Pedro Serafim to make sure that the van comes to give a training session. \u201cWe both look at the vehicle\u2019s availability taking certain factors into account, such as the suppliers with whom we are working and how long the job is going to last. On larger jobs, the work involves several suppliers and since it\u2019s a larger job the risks are also greater\u201d, says Jo\u00e3o Reis. He concludes \u201cThis is why the classroom van has come to this work site for the third time.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe great challenge arising in terms of developing training initiatives is working on improving behaviours. Using machines safely is something that employees have internalised extremely well, which is a very positive result of the strategy of repeating frontline training sessions. The problem which still persists regarding accidents at work relates to attitude. Pedro Serafim explains that \u201cthey are very repetitive jobs in which we must always be proactive to ensure that employees recognise they can\u2019t overstep certain boundaries, and that if they do they might cause an accident\u201d. According to Serafim, Altri Florestal\u2019s head of biodiversity and forest certification, the next step is to endeavour to understand near accidents, those times when an accident almost happened but ended up being avoided. \u201cFrom a safety and training point of view, it\u2019s a more challenging job to try to understand these occasions and what led up to them, rather than just trying to prevent an accident.\u201d\r\n\r\n[card title=\"First Aid workshop\"]\r\nAccidents can be minimised, but they cannot be avoided. They are not scheduled with the time and place where they will occur. Since we know accidents will happen, and that jobs in the forestry sector often take place in areas with little or no signposts and with no phone coverage, the First Aid administered to someone who has had an accident is extremely important. In the case of serious accidents, First Aid can be a matter of life and death.\r\n\r\nTo prevent these situations, Altri Florestal in partnership with EuroPGS, provides First Aid training for its employees with precise instructions on what to do in the even of an accident, both in terms of the aid given on the spot and also how to inform the 112 emergency services of the exact location and severity of the accident, thereby enabling help to come as quickly as possible and assistance to be given rapidly and effectively.\r\n[\/card]","_en_post_name":"training-on-wheels","_en_post_excerpt":"Altri Florestal has decided to take education to the work front, by means of a mobile classroom housed in a customised van where participants are taught about best safety practices at work","_en_post_title":"Training on wheels","edit_language":"en","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[92,35],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-floresta","tag-edicao-1","tag-formacao"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conteudos.xl.pt\/altri-news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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