Denmark’s largest construction site, the Femern project in Rødbyhavn, is well protected by fences. The construction site’s 250 hectares are not exactly accessible unless you have an access card to the gate, which lies in the shadow of the element factory’s gigantic halls.
You only get the card when you have gone through an online safety course, because FLC takes no chances.
– Safety is an absolute top priority for us on this project, explains project director at FLC Christian Lundhus in the safety course video.
Work has to be done
When FLC or the builder Femern A/S have invited you, you get a log-in for the safety course, and then it’s just a matter of turning on the thinker. The course is not just 20 minutes of listening and learning. Work has to be done.
The long video mixes small informational videos, cartoons with dangerous situations and tasks where the participant has to deal with everything from traffic rules, cooperation with colleagues and good workmanship.
– Remember that safety comes from within, the speaker reminds in a friendly tone, after which FLC’s ten golden safety rules appear on the screen – but only when you have drawn them over to the situations they look after.
The construction site is an anthill
It is important knowledge that you will then be bombarded with, because when you enter the other side of the barrier, you enter an anthill.
Above your hopefully helmet-clad head, ton-heavy steel structures carried by giant cranes pass, on the roads vans, dump trucks, buses and jeeps swarm among each other, large trucks unload several tons of materials, and craftsmen in neon-orange work clothes toil around both up and down to accomplish today’s tasks.
Common safety culture
The course must create an underlying sense of caution, and help build a common safety culture across languages, tasks and companies. The tasks in the safety course can therefore be solved in both Danish and English.
– We think… We are aware…. We act. We look after ourselves – and we look after each other, as the speaker concludes along the way, where it is also stated that:
– Here with us, people are not fired because of safety errors, only if you deliberately refuse to learn more.
The guests must help
In the video, FLC asks the guests at the construction site for help.
– Please tell us if there is anything we can do more safely, says the appeal from Christian Lundhus.
In the video, it is repeatedly told that safety is about community and that everyone – guests as well as employees – has a shared responsibility for ensuring that accidents do not occur on the site.
The course on the screen ends with the motto, which frames the community’s efforts for better security as a matter of course. It is just:
“The way we work”.
