“Actually, we wanted to shoot a film first, but then we were not satisfied with the quality,” says Jens, former apprentice of Deutschland GmbH. The 22-year-old in safety vest is now a trained specialist for warehouse logistics and has already “taken” a distinction together with his six apprentice colleagues before the successful completion of his apprenticeship.
At the beginning of November, the trainees went to Bremen and were awarded the “Main Prize for Trainees” for their “Safety Quiz for Beginners” in the course of a festive award ceremony – a multiple-choice questionnaire that drew attention to the safety concept of the service company with its branch.
“We have a good 22,000 square meters of storage space on the entire site,” says Wald, deputy branch manager and responsible for the company’s trainees. From above it looks like a small town with marked streets and walkways between the high shelves. Operational, but not hectic, it goes on and yet: Again and again forklift trucks and so-called “ants” – officially: between the shelves back and forth. “This is the ‘Blue Spotlight'”, explains Michael Dairyman, trainee apprentice. The forklift trucks drive forward as well as backwards and to warn of any vehicles or pedestrians coming around the corner, this blue point is already ahead. The fact that in this environment it is necessary to develop a safety quiz for beginners is illuminated, especially since the entering of the terrain and especially the storage halls is not permitted without safety reflective vest and safety shoes.
“When I start at half past six in the morning, it has happened to me that I forgot to put on my warning vest,” says Jennifer Martin, an apprentice for warehouse logistics. But then a colleague had come immediately and pointed it out. “Behavior Based Safety” is the name of this apparently quite successful approach to occupational health and safety, which also has a positive influence on the behavior of employees. And Kai Hurling adds, “I always have the safety shoes under my desk.” As a trainee to the merchant for forwarding and logistics services, the warehouse is not his core business, but just like everyone else, he is fully “in the fabric”.
Around this topic, the questions that the trainees have devised are also turning. “We have already laughed a lot when thinking about the possibilities for answers,” they say. You can tell the quiz. Photographs were used to depict scenes which partly show questionable behavior of persons on the site. A correct answer is a solution word. Everything relatively simple and yet: You can tell that behind this quiz are a lot of dedication and above all a lot of fun. “We would definitely do it again”, the apprentices of Geodes Deutschland GmbH enthusiastically tell their project. “You just do something different and get to know the other trainees,” adds Kai Hurling in warning vest.