PreBes National Network Event
The Prebes National Network Event (PreNNE) stands for : networking, training and refresher courses for the Belgian prevention councillors. Furthermore there are 35 training centres and a commercial corner exhibiting safety at work promoting products. The combination of all these elements is what makes PreNNE so unique! And recently the so-called PreNNE (Prebes National Network Events) completed this offer. These major events are organised four times a year , each time in a different region of Flanders. The PreNNE have become THE number one meeting ground for some 300 to 400 participants. The aim is double : to offer the opportunity to assist to refresher courses and training sessions on the one hand and to provide the Prevention Councillors with a fine chance to gather and get to know one another. In order to keep the event as varied as possible a mini fair with commercial stands is equally organised. The participants pick the activities they want to attend to during the day by choosing them freely from a wide variety of training sessions (45 minutes) organised on various topics. The highlights of PreNNE of the 27th of September 2007 have undoubtedly been the sessions on the new Belgian legislation concerning the integration of novice-workers. Some 150 participants registered for it. The next PreNNE is scheduled on the 29th of November 2007 in the Meeting Centre of Flanders Expo at Ghent. In collaboration with the Belgian Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, five free modules are organised on behalf of the prevention councillors form the Educational sector in de field of the legislation concerning industrial accidents suffered by trainees, the drawing up of a global training file, the purchasing and staring-up procedures, the drafting of and using of instruction cards on fire prevention. So, enough matter to back any well-intentioned prevention councillor and provide him or her with plenty of new ideas and means that are immediately useable on the work floor. Another success story will certainly be the prevention councillor’s training module. The Royal Decree of the 17th of May 2007 applies to training and refresher courses for the prevention councillors of both, Internal and External Services for Prevention and Protection at Work. Because of its problematic nature - which makes the issue important for the prevention councillors- and because a certain number of topics are absolutely not clear for a lot of people, the authors of the decree were invited to come and explain its obscure parts.
