Renato Lagana
Mediterranean University, Italy
Title: Training of teachers of construction safety in schools
Biography
Biography: Renato Lagana
Abstract
On several occasions we recently dealt with the safety managers’ training. We’d like to propose you our experience made during internship activities for secondary-school teachers, which our University run in the last year. The training project is carried out complying with the guidelines provided by the Ministerial decree no. 357/2013 published on August 11, 1998 within the framework of the progressive implementation of the provisions contained in the Consolidated law on Education (no. 297/1994). The initiative launched by the Italian Ministry for Education had two important phases: - Activities in schools carried out by would-be teachers in secondary school classrooms; - Teachers’ training in universities by qualified lecturers. Here are the experiences of two participants who chose to deal with safety in building sites for surveyor training (subject A016 – Constructions, construction technology and technical drawing). In their graduation thesis they analysed two themes: 1) Trenching and excavation safety within the building site; 2) Safety in road construction sites. The originality of those contributions is characterised by the implementation of new teaching methods involving the use of the cutting-edge IT tools, by the techniques adopted to involve students and by the straightforward experience in building or road construction sites. They are going to enable would-be surveyors to achieve a good qualification level thus impacting positively on companies operating in the building sector.