Health and Safety at Work Forum
Gilles de Luca, Claude Bouckaert, Julie Malherbe, Quantilien Bury at the 2022 forum
Gilles de Luca, Claude Bouckaert, Julie Malherbe, Quantilien Bury at the 2022 forum
The ArcelorMittal Foundation Luxembourg is a loyal partner of the Occupational Safety and Health Forum, jointly organised by the Accident Insurance Association (AAA), the Union of Luxembourg Enterprises and the National Institute for Sustainable Development and CSR. It welcomes around 1,500 visitors every year. The hundred or so exhibitors present the latest developments in occupational safety and health and more than 20 workshops take place there. This Forum is part of the “Vision Zero” approach, which since 2016 has been supporting a strategy for preventing workplace accidents, commuting accidents and occupational diseases.
This strategy reflects the solidarity of national partners to give new impetus to safety and health at work and to mobilise all stakeholders, whether at the employer or employee level.
ArcelorMittal Luxembourg, a loyal partner of this Forum for many years, was again present for this edition with a stand that presented two initiatives: – a virtual training module on overhead crane operation, which enables newcomers, but also more experienced crane operators, to carry out load behaviour exercises in a very realistic virtual environment. Through different scenarios, the trainees have to carry out several successive tasks, and familiarise themselves, without risk, with the subtleties of the crane operator job;- information sessions led by ArcelorMittal Luxembourg’s occupational health team, around the theme “Our brain, an advocate for the least effort”.
Neuroscience has shown that the human brain can, in some cases, put us at risk, especially when it is not focused on the activity being carried out at that precise moment. When the brain is on “autopilot”, the danger can arise without being properly understood by the individual. In addition to the sessions on the stand, which made it possible to raise visitors’ awareness on this theme, this subject was presented at a conference that broke an audience record for the forum!
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