Training and qualification in Swedish ports

ETF-meeting Limassol

26-27 february 2009

Facts about ports in Sweden

App 54 comercial ports App 3000 dockers regular 1,2 bill Swedish krona, 120 mill EUR 2 mill TEU/year 200 mill tons 1 CBA national 1 counterpart

What the legislation says

No specific laws to training is required, however, requires that the person driving the truck has proven knowledge (AFS 2006:05)

Work environmental laws

Noting mentioned in CBA

Employer employes anyone

New emploees from the extras

Requirements for documented knowledgeThe higher education companies, together with representatives of

the social partners have developed a common syllabus, TLP 2, the

truck driver training. In some industries have signed agreements

requiring that truck drivers should have training under TLP 2.

The development of TLP 2 has made in consultation with the Work

Environment Authority, us, and a number of other organizations

including Sveriges hamnar (employer organization)

TLP 2

Three roads to

INCREASED

SECURITYand increased profitability

New more efficient training

Previously regarded truck driving as soon as an obligation. It trained to not end up incourt if an accident occurred. But in early 90s, something happened. Employersdiscovered that they served to educate their truck drivers. They was far back themoney they spent, and the explanation was this:

● Damage to the trucks, equipment and goods fell● Supervision of the truck drivers were improved - and reduced repairs

truck● The service life increased and decreased downtime periods● Injuries decreased and hence the absence and rehabilitation costs● Drivers of productivity increases, including as a result of greater skill, motivation

and job satisfaction.

There are different ways to educate drivers. You can send them to so-called collectionof courses. One can organize a company training. And you can train its owninstructors, who in turn train new truck drivers. All have a common - a curriculum thataddresses the basics of what a truck driver needs know. Now a new, updatedcurriculum, TLP 2 (Truck Curriculum 2002).

Why new truck curriculum?

The new curriculum is organized by market needsand wishes for more efficient training on differenttypes of machinery. The result is more traineddrivers and thus fewer accidents.

It's easier to find exactly the training you need andan overview of the courses available. Moreover,the documentation of the truck drivers' knowledgeclearer - the driver has a certificate in which thetruck types he or she trained there indicated.

Greater flexibility with three different coursesIn TLP 2 are special education oriented. You can choose betweenthree courses depending on which the trucks driver will use. Theduration is then adapted after trucktypernas uses and difficulty tohandle.

A training: covers low-lift trucks and high lifting point and the truck bed andtractors.

B-training: of trucks with a lifting capacity to 10 tonnes. Here Included truck types,

such as sliding tripod truck and counterbalance truck, but it also truck types

in the A-training

C-training: is a postgraduate training which requires that one has undergoneB-training. It covers truck types that have a lifting capacity exceeding10 tonnes, and any special equipment not included in A or B training,including wheel for hand pallet handling, etc.

Completing an education to another

Drivers who have completed a certain level of education have the

opportunity to complete to get a more comprehensive skills.

For to supplement their training will give the driver a theoretical

skills test with approved.

What is included in the training

Safety rules Traffic Laws and regulations Truck design Truck operation, stability and loads The most common truck types and their controls Management of health and environmental dangerous

goods Screening and daily maintenance An ergonomically correct working Captive traffic and safety rules Logistics and economy

Driving license for truck

Port & Stevedoring School(Hamn & Stuveri Skolan)

Background

During bargaining in 1996 discussed the creation of a special portschool and the reasons included following:

● very high average age of the corps● low status of stevedoring profession● need for an enhanced and comprehensive competencies of port workers● lack of coherent education for stevedore

In some parts of the country were high school students choose port targeting thethird high school year but it was in itself no obvious employment of a stevedoringcompany. Unfortunately, the interest and the number of requests to port the line a

little.The parties, the Swedish Transport Union and the then Swedish Port and StevedoringAssociation (now the Swedish Ports) decided therefore to establish a school and thename was proposed to - PORT & LONGSHOREMAN SCHOOL. The school is part ofthe TYA but financed by a percentage charge (0.3) based on collective wage bill.

Agreement

Students in the Port & Stevedoring school would have a student job in astevedoring company, with elevlön during his employment, a shorter periodOf notice and opportunity to practice in their home port during the periods.

The training is primarily addressed to new employees and would include 16school weeks and 16 weeks practical training.

Number of pupils in each round would be a maximum of 16.

Some training was also conducted.

School

Training facilities, some of the teachers,student housing, machinery and financialopportunities for outdoor activities available inNorrköping on the TUC, Transport Technicaltraining in Bråvalla. The school rented upthere.

In September 1998 the then called skolchefenBill Rehn to the first school. 15 pupils, twowomen, participated in the 16 weeks longschool training. These weeks lap was withpractical application in the home port, and itmeant that the first group graduated in May1999. September 1999 to May 2000 was thesecond class, 15 students were trained.

Changes

When Bill Rehn took office as the new CEO of TYAin June 2000, hired Wayne Svensson as the newskolchef of Port & Stevedoring School.

Between September 2000 and May 2001 were runon the third round of the Port & Stevedoring School.Although this time with 15 pupils.

In the spring of invitation sent out before the fourthschool. When the registration expires, there wereonly three students notified. A decision was to setthe fourth school.

Spring 2002 was a new attempt with the invitation tothe school year in September, but this time gotschool set, a designated student.

Market Research

The School Board instructed skolchefen to urgently visit the port and stevedoringcompany in order to get a picture of how companies and its employees were at theschool, its activities and wishes for a continuation.

During the period from the first set the course and up to the tour, offered by the schooland local and regional efforts, with good results. Schools were therefore very much,but the training was conducted in a different way. In conclusion, out of the tour follows:

● they want to have short courses, 2-3 days as locally as possible

● they want to get away from long trips and overnight

● they wants a "smorgasbord" of training / courses

The conditions to conduct the school, as was done initially were reviewed.

Current state

Module system

From late autumn 2002 carries Port &Stevedoring school education accordingto the wishes expressed in a so-calledmodular ( "smorgasbord").

The contents have been determined byindustry representatives, the companiesthemselves and individual ”idésprutor”.

A phone call or e-mail to skolchefen, isenough to to agree on a trainingopportunity.

Courses offered via TYA, is normally notin the Port & Stevedoring school choice.

Training three legs

Training (module system) Simulators E-learning

Certification of dockers

Module system

General Courses

Port and Stevedoring School modular system means that individualcourses can be implemented both locally and regionally to one orseveral stevedoring companies.

The latest example is training in maritime security. Two day courseconducted both in individual companies and in the interaction ofseveral ports. Education / course can normally be carried out onsite with TYA-approved instructor.

The school takes the cost of instructors and teaching materials andthe remainder are the company for costs that premises, trucks, etc.It needed to start training is to contact skolchefen and make anagreement on implementation.

Basic Education(Module system)

Economy basic Data basic Cargo securing incl stuff and stripping, 24 h

excluding placements Signal's Training, 8 h Quality materials and knowledge Truck B, 40 h Work, basic, 1-2 days Dangerous goods, 24 hours ISPS Maritime Security, 16 hours

Further Education(Module system)

Data Tally Teambuilding Economy, cont Data, cont Environmental Transport A / B and Logistics Forklift <10 ton Terminal Tractor Wheel (Hjullastare) Work cont. PAM (Arbetsmiljö, fortsättning PAM) Fire Training, 1st Aid, 8 h CPR, 4-8 h

Special Education(Module system)

Further Education, terminal tractor, 8-24 h Further Education, top lift and reachstacker, 8 h Container Control Container Inspection, 8 hours Instructor Training (engineer), 56 h Astride truck Transtainer Container Truck Crane, 6-7 weeks Portal Turn crane, crane ships Vikarmskran, mobile cranes, 24 h (depending on skills) Intermediate Education, 2 days CPR, instructor training, 8 h Ergonomics and Health

Simulators for training

The technologies used in the simulators Port & StevedoringSchool now developing, based on the so-called real-time physics.Briefly, you can translate it with the machine's natural values areprogrammed into a computer, ie åkhastighet, speed of engines,the sound at different pressures and in collisions, vibration, etc.This means that the driver of the simulator to determine the"machine" shall be behave on the screen.

The simulator projects currently underway inPort & Stevedoring school registrants are:

● STS-crane (Ship To Shore)● Wheel (Hjullastare) Volvo● Vikarmskran● Reachstacker

eLearning

There is no ambition to end the traditional courses with teachers in local rate. On thecontrary, we shall safeguard the meeting between the participants and trainers. Thereare so many advantages of traditional education that will never be replaced bycomputers.

eLearning is therefore seen as a complement.

● Port & Stevedoring School released their first eLearning in October 2005eDangerous goods (912 licenses)

● In 2006 was eDangerous goods supplementedwith eFire and eFirst aid and thus is the generaldangerous goods training complete. eFire andeFirst aid can be used individually and / or incombination with other of the TYA or schoolproduced courses.

● ISPS (3740 licenses)

Certification of dockers

Only permanent employees of port and stevedoring workers can apply forprofessional qualifications. Other permanent employees, as most of theirworking hours do not work with port and stevedoring, and auxiliary staff arenot subject to the possibility of professional qualifications, even if they go onthe stevedoring contract.

To obtain professional qualifications for the port and stevedoring requiredthat the employee has:

● worked at least 3 200 hours (2 years) in the profession for a continuous period in the last 4 years and

● undergone induction training

Certification of dockers

Specifications:

● General Knowledge port

● Internal Regulations

● Professional Knowledge

● Work (Arbetsmiljö)

● Rights and Obligations

● Other (ISPS Security)

The future

● Upgrade simulators

● New simulators (crane, multidocker on wheel, Reachstacker)

● Develop module-system

● Develop E-learning system

Economics and Management

0,3 % of salary = 3,5 mill SEK/year

Board 3 people from each side

App 4 meetings/year

1 parttime headmaster (docker) also

instructor.

Thanks for your interest

Swedish transport workers union