Karl Kuhn EU Twinning project

Karl KuhnEU Twinning project

„Support to the State Labour Inspectorate Service (SLIS) in Occupational Health and Safety

(OHS) enhancement in the Republic of Azerbaijan” ( SUPSLIS)

20./21.11.2012 Final Twinning conference, Baku

A competent staff for the SLISEffective OSH inspection is vital for promoting

national legislation and good practice on safety and health at the enterprise level, making Decent Work a reality.

Inspectors thus need a sound technical and legal knowledge as well as good communication and other skills to promote compliance with the law, as well as effective and efficient organizations supporting their work.


Needed Competences To advise employers, workers and other duty-holders on good

practice and specifically on how to comply with relevant legislation;

To investigate complaints, accidents and cases of ill health; To work with social partners in educational/promotional

activities, such as training courses, seminars for small enterprises etc;

To enforce relevant legislation; and To report to superiors on their activities and about particular

matters as required, including ‘defects or abuses not specifically covered by existing legal provisions’ (Convention No.81).


Needed Qualifications Technical qualification and skills

profound knowledge of statutory instruments

ability to provide advice technical expertise in specialized

areas expertise in the economy and

industrial relations expertise in working conditions,

and cause-effect relationships of different risks

knowledge in using tools and measurement devices

…..

Personal competencies

ability to communicate with people ability to motivate and persuade ability to gain confidence ability to avoid conflict situations

and if there are any skill to analyses and identify

problems ability to resolve them ……


Training needs Assessment The twinning team has prepared a questionnaire

to analyse the training needs and the needed skills of the SLIS staff.

The draft of the questionnaire was discussed in the working group for training, improved and a final version prepared (ca.15 questions)

A short version was prepared for the supervisors and a longer version for the inspectors. After translation to Azeri language the questionnaires have been distributed to all units of the SLIS.


Results ITotally 164 inspectors and 25 supervisors have

answered:N=164 InspectorsN= 25 SupervisorsOnly 46, 3 % of all questioned inspectors

had in the last five years training courses and only the half of them (51,3%) have called them as useful.

On the other side more than the half of the inspectors call that they never had any training courses.


Results IIThere is a very clear need for trainings in

management techniques (108 inspectors) and in computer skills (104 inspectors). 69 inspectors are interested in project

management and 36 in presentation techniques.


Call the most negative factors which are impeding/hindering your task performed?

101 Inspectors called negative factors (61,5 % of all inspectors). These factors are dealing with organisational factors of carrying out the work:Lack of computersLow salaryLack of internetLack of seminars about changes of legislationPoor logisticsLack of service vehiclesTime pressureManagement instructions which are contradictory to the lawShortage of promotional material for the performance of the tasksBureaucratic obstacles………..


A lot of other negative factors are related to the poor knowledge of both employer and employees of the duties and rights in the labour code.Lack of workers’ interests to learn their rights.Some employers’ lack of profound knowledge in labour legislation.In most cases complainants’ ignorance of their rightsCitizens and employers ignorance of labour legislationEmployers’ failure to create conditions for the conduct of investigations In some cases employers’ failure to create conditions to carry out enforcement Intentional failure by employers to fulfil their dutiesSelf-satisfaction of people


Results IIIWhat helps you to be successful in your task performance?All inspectors called 184 factors which support to become successfully: All this factors are dealing with the own experience, good knowledge base, learning of each others, communication, and legislation.To be discussed: these answers indicate how important the creation of a learning climate in the units of the SLIS is. This confirms the strategy to create a concept of train-the-trainer, to organize a continuous learning and to organize the exchange of experience.


Selection of TrainersAfter training need analysis, after selection of

trainers by interviews, after training them two weeks in Dresden in different OSH issues, the content for the train-the-trainer programme was discussed with the trainers.

A training program was established with 15 OSH themes.

Beginning 2012 a four week training was carried out


Train-the trainer approach Twenty participants, five of them from the social

partners, have been trained in in all OSH relevant issues.

At the end of the training the training was assessed by the participants. A clear majority rated the training as excellent or good.

At the end of the training all participants had to undergo an examination with more than 42 audit questions

On the 27th of April during a ceremony, the Deputy Minister Natig Mammadov passed the certificates to the trainer in the frame of a national conference.


Training system of the futureOne year induction training for new inspectors

with defined subjectsExamination at the end as a prerequisite for

the inspection of enterprises.A annual training plans for the staff of the SLISDefined learning objectives for the different

issuesIndividual training and development plan

for every inspector. Continuous learning will become essential part

of the profile of an inspector in Azerbaijan.


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