BACKGROUND and NEEDS: The aging of the working population at European level is evident. This new situation should be accompanied by strategies for adapting work organization, tasks and working conditions to the special characteristics of this group of adult workers. These strategies include training programs for workers with appropriate guidelines for the development of their job effectively, improving working conditions and professionalism of this group. In forestry, scientific and statistical data have been confirmed that there are high rates of mortality and morbidity in the development of the activity, specifically regarding diseases overexertion and risks of derivatives safety prevention and fire extinguishing. Fire extinguishing takes place in difficult conditions, as the nature of the emergency requires urgent action, jobs are painful and exhausting and almost always take place in an atmosphere of haste and nervousness. The work of prevention and firefighting, require high physical and mental demands, which sometimes can generate an imbalance with the capabilities of workers. Being therefore necessary adequately qualify at each of the competencies of his job, in order to obtain a quick response, as required by workers OBJECTIVES: Development of a specific training program based in a Serious Game for prevention and firefighting operator that takes into account the activities carried out and that includes the physical and mental requirements necessary, and skills and capabilities to consider in the development of Europe-wide Training Program, in a context of aging population. Develop a report that brings to notice the impact of aging on physical, sensory and motor capacities of prevention and fire fighting operator ,and its incidence to perform safely the tasks related to prevention and fire fighting, because high stress, toxic and dangerous jobs All partners have the common premise of "normalizing" to European level all those possible and common actions between the European countries. In this respect, this proposal Trivial would complement to the actions of normalization implemented by the work group of training and would contribute a innovation since it will allow the identification of the skills that at present are needed, developing a INTERACTIVE training tool STANDARDIZED between the participant countries with high rates of wildfire such Portugal, Spain and Malta, and transferable to other countries in future actions. The novelties of the this project will suppose that the curriculum will be composed by training modules that integrate medical, physical, technical and mental conditions qualify the workers in their skills. To perform with full guarantees of safety and health a position of extinguishing and wildfire prevention, it is required an academic a multidisciplinary training that integrates medical aspects of physical, technical and mental condition because of their high psychophysical demands of the jobs. FORESTGAME will be available to be used in mobile devices and PCs. The nature of this job demands a tool that can be used no matter where. The project will bring up 2 Intellectual Outputs: 1) Report: Job Profile Diagram And Training Program For Workers Operators Of Prevention And Extinguishing Forest Fires 2)Training By Serious Game : Trivial “Forestgame” PARTNERSHIP: Consortium is composed of five entities: - SGS (Multinational training company). Spain. - GWU (General Workers Union of Malta) Malta. - BETI (Baltic Education Technology Institute) Lithuania. - FNAPF. (Forest Owners Association). Portugal . - ENB (firefighters school) Portugal. Consortium arose as consequence of different meetings between partners, when they detected the same needs in their countries .Partners know perfectly the sector in their countries and they represent the interests of workers, firefighters, trainers and forest owners. IMPACT: This project will achieve a unified training program in the whole Europe, to perform with full guarantees of safety and health workplace the activities of extinguishing and fire prevention of forest sector. This will be multidisciplinary training that integrates medical aspects of physical, technical and mental condition because of the high psychophysical demands of the job. It will achieve the professionalizing the sector across Europe through a training tool available to download by anyone. Parters work hand by hand with public authorities (even ENB is the official Firefighter School in Portugal), so they are in good position to transfer the results. The training program is easy to spread and share since it's embedded in an App/website, so results of tests can be analyzed easily by the consortium through Big Data analytics to improve the trainings over time.
According to the results of the study (EU-SILC 2008, Eurostat. Perceived health in workers aged 15-64 in the EU27), 19% of all deaths produced in the EU-27 are workers in working age. Forestry, scientific and statistical data support that there are high rates of mortality and morbidity in the development of the activity, specifically regarding diseases overexertion and safety risks arising from the prevention own Firefighting. Fire extinguishing is developed in difficult conditions, as the nature of the emergency requires urgent action, jobs are painful and exhausting and almost always develop in an atmosphere of precipitation and nervousness. Prevention work and firefighting require a high demand physical and psychological, which sometimes can lead to an imbalance with the capabilities of workers. It is therefore necessary qualify to properly in each of the skills of his job in order to obtain a quick response, as required for work in this sector. Psychophysical requirements that are required for the performance of tasks, may be incompatible with the skills of workers after a certain age, due to changes characteristic of aging, which are exacerbated or increased by these requirements and cannot be made the work with full guarantees for the safety and health of workers from a certain age. So that there is a mismatch of the physical and psychological demands on performance, it is needed there specific training in accordance with those requirements that are directed at improving the development of the skills of the operator in his job at an early age, from the point of view of health and safety The objectives were: Development of a specific training program based in a Serious Game for prevention and firefighting operator that takes into account the activities carried out and that includes the physical and mental requirements necessary, and skills and capabilities to consider in the development of Europe-wide Training Program, in a context of aging population. Develop a report that brings to notice the impact of aging on physical, sensory and motor capacities of prevention and firefighting operator, and its incidence to perform safely the tasks related to prevention and firefighting, because high stress, toxic and dangerous jobs. Forestgame was created on the base of the Moodle and is available for use on mobile devices and PCs. The nature of this work requires a tool that can be used anywhere. Training program: http://moodle.beti.lt In this project the TP was compiled with the help of training modules that combine the medical, physical, technical and mental conditions that allow workers to gain their skills. The project had 2IO: 1.Report: Job Profile Diagram and Training Program For Workers Operators Of Prevention And Extinguishing Forest Fires. After, we had a physiogram specific for The operator prevention and fire fighting including skills and capabilities to consider in developing the Training Program is held at European level. Finally had been developed the European Training Program for the acquisition of the necessary skills, which enable adequate professionalization of prevention and fire fighting operator. 2.Training By Serious Game: Trivial “Forestgame”. While the training program in digital support includes all the necessary training for the development of the tasks of this job, thereby enabling initial training and periodic, the Serious game allowed majoring these workers in specific aspects of greater relevance using an app. By its interactive nature It allows to transport workers your work setting. This app is therefore it is more specific on those aspects of practical training and / or risk. PARTNERSHIP: SGS (Spain), GWU (Malta), BETI (Lithuania), ASEMFO (Spain), ENB (Portugal). This project achieved a unified training program in the whole Europe, to perform with full guarantees of safety and health workplace the activities of extinguishing and fire prevention of forest sector. The program consists of 9 modules and tests with different levels. The program was tested by forestry experts. Based on their evaluations and recommendations, were made different improvements and at the moment, the training is a useful tool that has already begun to be used in the consortium countries. This is multidisciplinary training that integrates medical aspects of physical, technical and mental condition because of the high psychophysical demands of the job. It is achieving the professionalizing the sector across Europe through a training tool available to download by anyone. The training program is easy to distribute and share because it's embedded in an App/website, so results of tests can be analyzed easily by the consortium through Big Data analytics to improve the training over time. http://forestgame.eu The Project results have been published in Open Access platforms: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/63439/overview https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/resource-centre/content/forestgame-project