The OPPBTP and the École Supérieure de Conduite de Travaux (ESCT) sign a partnership agreement relating to health and safety at work

The OPPBTP, in continuation of its actions carried out to meet the initial training requirements of the @Horizon2025 plan, and the ESCT, the École Supérieure de Conduite de Travaux, signed a new partnership on April 19.

The objective of this partnership is to raise awareness among the 2.100 students of professional risks on construction sites and train them in the issues of risk prevention. ESCT thus joins a network of 70 establishments already committed to operational excellence and improving working conditions alongside the OPPBTP. The implications of this agreement, concluded for 5 years, will be effective from the start of the school year in September 2024.

An audience of future supervisors

ESCT trains for work management professions, and therefore particularly targets the areas of site management, planning, safety, and regulations. It offers RNCP certification training ranging from bac+2 level (Works Manager) to bac+5 level (Construction Project Manager). Its graduates will occupy management positions: they will be works supervisors, works engineers, project managers, or in charge of a construction entity with the management of human, financial and material resources.

Their responsibilities will be numerous: ability to analyze risks, take the right measures in the field, secure trench excavations or lifting operations, know the consequences of exposure to asbestos, apply hygiene rules or even know how to coordinate Safety and Health Protection (SPS) to properly manage coactivity. Also, their knowledge of risks is crucial, for them and for their teams.

A constructive partnership

ESCT is committed to integrating into its program sequences of courses dedicated to risk prevention on all of its 11 sites (Paris Montreuil, Paris La Défense, Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Rennes , Lyon, Bayonne). The risk prevention modules will appear in the mandatory training base for students and will be evaluated. Obtaining the ESCT title or certification will depend on their validation.

For its part, the OPPBTP makes its educational resources and trainers available in order to promote prevention as a key factor in business performance as well as a means of improving the working and safety conditions of players in the sector. .

“Blended learning” training

Since 2017, the OPPBTP has offered so-called “blended learning” formats, or hybrid learning, that is to say a mix of e-learning and face-to-face learning. ESCT students will have access to the OPPBTP LCMS (Learning Content Management System) platform, and the Digital Learning team will provide monitoring and connection assistance to students in difficulty. It is also via this platform that the OPPBTP will be able to evaluate and monitor the results obtained by students in the different modules offered. These results will be shared with the ESCT, particularly during steering committee meetings.

Individual contractors who will provide face-to-face modules will also have access to the LCMS platform. A facilitator of the OPPBTP modules will be designated on each of its sites. The facilitators will either be temporary workers from the OPPBTP network or that of the ESCT. In both cases, they will follow content appropriation sessions and receive educational support provided by the OPPBTP regional initial training advisors.

An approach that bears fruit

Within the OPPBTP, the team dedicated to initial training was formed in 2009, with two people. Thanks to several partnerships concluded, the networking work on the ground to integrate risk prevention into initial training is paying off.

For Gérald Leroy, responsible for the regional coordination of initial training at the OPPBTP, the progress is undeniable: “Students' interest in prevention is real. It is a popular subject among young people, who have understood that they have a responsibility towards their teams, and also, on a personal level, to preserve themselves. Mentalities have really changed.”

This entire course will be implemented on all ESCT sites for the 2024-2025 school year, with gradual deployment on the different school sites. The objective is to be able to provide training as a whole from the start of the 2025 school year.

Initial training, a strategic priority for the OPPBTP

Initial training is the fourth priority of the @Horizon2025 plan. It is estimated that around 150.000 young people train each year in the construction industry in CAP, BP, Bac Pro all statuses combined. In higher initial training, 70 partner establishments are implementing training from bac + 2 to bac + 5 with the OPPBTP. This concerns 7.000 students, both face-to-face and remotely. These results are the result of campaigns actively carried out by the OPPBTP since 2009. Each year, new links are forged within establishments which in turn join the network. The signing, on April 19, 2024, of the partnership agreement relating to health and safety at work with ESCT thus opens the way for a new constructive collaboration which will affect 2.100 students.