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
knowledge
The 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
SECURITY
and increased profitability
New more efficient training
Previously regarded truck driving as soon as an obligation. It trained to not end up in
court if an accident occurred. But in early 90s, something happened. Employers
discovered that they served to educate their truck drivers. They was far back the
money they spent, and the explanation was this:
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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 collection
of courses. One can organize a company training. And you can train its own
instructors, who in turn train new truck drivers. All have a common - a curriculum that
addresses the basics of what a truck driver needs know. Now a new, updated
curriculum, TLP 2 (Truck Curriculum 2002).
Why new truck curriculum?
The new curriculum is organized by market needs
and wishes for more efficient training on different
types of machinery. The result is more trained
drivers and thus fewer accidents.
It's easier to find exactly the training you need and
an overview of the courses available. Moreover,
the documentation of the truck drivers' knowledge
clearer - the driver has a certificate in which the
truck types he or she trained there indicated.
Greater flexibility with three
different courses
In TLP 2 are special education oriented. You can choose between
three courses depending on which the trucks driver will use. The
duration is then adapted after trucktypernas uses and difficulty to
handle.
A training: covers low-lift trucks and high lifting point and the truck bed and
tractors.
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 undergone
B-training. It covers truck types that have a lifting capacity exceeding
10 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
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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 port
school and the reasons included following:
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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 the
third high school year but it was in itself no obvious employment of a stevedoring
company. 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 Stevedoring
Association (now the Swedish Ports) decided therefore to establish a school and the
name was proposed to - PORT & LONGSHOREMAN SCHOOL. The school is part of
the 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 a
stevedoring company, with elevlön during his employment, a shorter period
Of notice and opportunity to practice in their home port during the periods.
The training is primarily addressed to new employees and would include 16
school 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 financial
opportunities for outdoor activities available in
Norrköping on the TUC, Transport Technical
training in Bråvalla. The school rented up
there.
In September 1998 the then called skolchefen
Bill Rehn to the first school. 15 pupils, two
women, participated in the 16 weeks long
school training. These weeks lap was with
practical application in the home port, and it
meant that the first group graduated in May
1999. September 1999 to May 2000 was the
second class, 15 students were trained.
Changes
When Bill Rehn took office as the new CEO of TYA
in June 2000, hired Wayne Svensson as the new
skolchef of Port & Stevedoring School.
Between September 2000 and May 2001 were run
on the third round of the Port & Stevedoring School.
Although this time with 15 pupils.
In the spring of invitation sent out before the fourth
school. When the registration expires, there were
only three students notified. A decision was to set
the fourth school.
Spring 2002 was a new attempt with the invitation to
the school year in September, but this time got
school set, a designated student.
Market Research
The School Board instructed skolchefen to urgently visit the port and stevedoring
company in order to get a picture of how companies and its employees were at the
school, its activities and wishes for a continuation.
During the period from the first set the course and up to the tour, offered by the school
and 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:
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they want to have short courses, 2-3 days as locally as possible
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they want to get away from long trips and overnight
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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 according
to the wishes expressed in a so-called
modular ( "smorgasbord").
The contents have been determined by
industry representatives, the companies
themselves and individual ”idésprutor”.
A phone call or e-mail to skolchefen, is
enough to to agree on a training
opportunity.
Courses offered via TYA, is normally not
in 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 individual
courses can be implemented both locally and regionally to one or
several stevedoring companies.
The latest example is training in maritime security. Two day course
conducted both in individual companies and in the interaction of
several ports. Education / course can normally be carried out on
site with TYA-approved instructor.
The school takes the cost of instructors and teaching materials and
the remainder are the company for costs that premises, trucks, etc.
It needed to start training is to contact skolchefen and make an
agreement on implementation.
Basic Education
(Module system)
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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)
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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)
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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 & Stevedoring
School now developing, based on the so-called real-time physics.
Briefly, you can translate it with the machine's natural values are
programmed 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 in
Port & Stevedoring school registrants are:
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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 the
contrary, we shall safeguard the meeting between the participants and trainers. There
are so many advantages of traditional education that will never be replaced by
computers.
eLearning is therefore seen as a complement.
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Port & Stevedoring School released their first eLearning in October 2005
eDangerous goods (912 licenses)
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In 2006 was eDangerous goods supplemented
with eFire and eFirst aid and thus is the general
dangerous goods training complete. eFire and
eFirst aid can be used individually and / or in
combination with other of the TYA or school
produced courses.
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ISPS (3740 licenses)
Certification of dockers
Only permanent employees of port and stevedoring workers can apply for
professional qualifications. Other permanent employees, as most of their
working hours do not work with port and stevedoring, and auxiliary staff are
not subject to the possibility of professional qualifications, even if they go on
the stevedoring contract.
To obtain professional qualifications for the port and stevedoring required
that the employee has:
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worked at least 3 200 hours (2 years) in the profession for a continuous
period in the last 4 years and
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undergone induction training
Certification of dockers
Specifications:
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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
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0,3 % of salary = 3,5 mill SEK/year
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Board 3 people from each side
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App 4 meetings/year
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1 parttime headmaster (docker) also
instructor.
Thanks for your interest
Swedish transport workers union