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Safestart – Basic Safety Training for Jobseekers and Temporary Workers. Translation and dissemination in different Member States

SAFESTART is a European partnership which aims to enhance work floor safety through the development of a user-friendly e-Learning training course, enabling users to prepare at their own pace for the exam in order to obtain the B-VCA or VOL-VCA certificate that is mandatory in some European countries.

Safestart - the European portal for vocational training on health and safety at work - offers an on-line e-learning course which serves as preparation for the official VCA exam; covers all the subjects which may come up in the official exam, so that course participants perfectly prepared to take the exam in an approved centre in order to gain their B-VCA certificate. During the course period, participants are being distance-mentored by an experienced tutor to whom they can address, via e-mail, any questions and comments they may have. Safestart course also give participants the option of completing exercises and taking a mock exam (at the same level of difficulty as the official exam) as many times as they like.