Written answers

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Department of Education and Skills

FÁS Training Courses

9:00 pm

Photo of Jack WallJack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 155: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding Safe Pass courses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37115/11]

Photo of Ciarán CannonCiarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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The FÁS Safe Pass Programme is a one day Safe Pass Health and Safety Awareness Training Programme which construction workers are required to attend once every four years. The programme has been designed to include group participation and discussion with the use of fact based case studies and exercises to facilitate learning. I understand from FÁS that, originally, the minimum number of candidates attending the course was set at ten and the maximum number at twenty and that after an independent review of the programme, the minimum number was reduced to eight.

To facilitate workers gaining access to training, FÁS has offered to search its course notification data base and to advise workers of the nearest available course and to put them directly in contact with an approved Safe Pass Tutor so that they can be scheduled for training.

FÁS also advises that any workers experiencing difficulty in gaining access to a Safe Pass Course should contact the FÁS Safe Pass Operations Unit at 01 6070500 for assistance.

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