Sogea - 1999 annual report - Vinci
Sogea - 1999 annual report - Vinci
Sogea - 1999 annual report - Vinci
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TRAINING<br />
Starting in March <strong>1999</strong> and<br />
throughout 2000, entrepreneurial<br />
training courses are being held<br />
for heads of profit centres.<br />
This training is given by company<br />
staff and addresses such diverse<br />
issues as contract management,<br />
human resources, IT tools,<br />
communications, customer<br />
relations, financial management<br />
and accident prevention.<br />
Similar training is given to works<br />
managers and site managers.<br />
As of June <strong>1999</strong>, they have also<br />
been receiving training to improve<br />
their technical skills and potential<br />
in the framework of an overall<br />
approach to production resource<br />
excellence.<br />
PREVENTION<br />
<strong>Sogea</strong> has assigned safety<br />
specialists to each of its regional<br />
offices and expanded its head<br />
office-based prevention and team<br />
networking structures. The<br />
company has embarked on a new<br />
approach to prevention based on<br />
an analysis of the health problems<br />
experienced by workers and on<br />
studies of accidents in which they<br />
were injured. This approach is<br />
based on regular meetings bringing<br />
together approximately 15<br />
workers and health and accident<br />
prevention specialists. The goal is<br />
to identify the behaviour of skilled<br />
workers in risk situations and<br />
to seek practical ways of raising<br />
awareness.<br />
In an approach similar to the one<br />
taken to quality, an international<br />
reference base on prevention and<br />
safety is currently under study.<br />
<strong>Sogea</strong> wishes to adopt this<br />
approach and is even anticipating<br />
the reference base by setting up<br />
a 12-point action plan listing<br />
concrete measures to be taken on<br />
construction sites.<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
In June 1998, the International<br />
Department introduced a training<br />
program for all its supervisory<br />
staff to provide them with the<br />
enhanced management and<br />
administrative skills they require<br />
for their jobs. Administration,<br />
management, human resources,<br />
negotiation, financing, contracts,<br />
prevention and quality are the<br />
major themes addressed.<br />
In Africa, activities to provide<br />
orientation, training, and mobility<br />
of local staff have been stepped up<br />
in order to achieve greater<br />
availability of local skills in all<br />
business lines.<br />
Finally, a study was conducted<br />
in <strong>1999</strong> on the implementation,<br />
from January 1, 2000, of uniform,<br />
updated expatriate staff regulations.<br />
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