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EfVET ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2026 · WORKSHOP

Workshop — Safe People, Safe Planet

Connecting Occupational Safety, Sustainability and Responsible Citizenship in VET

📍 Brussels · Friday 23 October 2026 · 11:00–12:00 (Brussels time) · Studio 201 A+B
👥 Facilitated by Davit Mazmishvili & Ilona Chukhua, Safety Academia, Tbilisi

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Davit Mazmishvili and Ilona Chukhua of Safety Academia in front of the conference banner, with the title Safe People, Safe Planet, EfVET Annual Conference, 23 October 2026, SQUARE Brussels Meeting Centre
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Your certificates

Every participant gets a personal Participation certificate. Enter the session code, your name, your table and your email, then download your PDF. It is created on your own device; to issue it we record your name, table, email and which certificate you downloaded. If the download does not work, tick “please email my certificate to me later” and we email it after the workshop.

Get your certificate

Please download your certificate during the session. If you cannot, the certificate page stays open until midnight Brussels time on Friday 23 October, then closes.

Each team chooses one Voice of the Team, who speaks for the group. The Voice downloads the Voice of the Team certificate on their own phone from the certificate page, with the same session code, name, table and email as the participation certificate. A printed or handwritten copy is an optional extra. We announce this now, up front, so nobody needs to feel shy. Teams that submit digitally can receive an optional Digital Collaboration thank-you.

Welcome

Safe people. Safe planet. One decision, one habit, shaped in the classroom.

Why it matters

Every learner who enters a workshop, a kitchen, a building site or a care setting steps into a place where people and the planet are protected or put at risk by ordinary actions. Safe work and responsible use of resources are not two subjects. They are one professional habit, and vocational education is where that habit is formed. When occupational safety, sustainability and responsible citizenship are taught together, learners leave able to protect people and the planet in the same decision.

What we do together

Tables work on one real vocational task and look at it from every angle: the worker, the people around, the resources, the longer effects. It is a shared brainstorm, not a showcase. Each table brings its own experience, builds its thinking in the open, and challenges another table's work. At the end, everyone votes for the table that presented best, and the winning table receives a gift. Every table gets a thank-you. Facilitated by Davit Mazmishvili and Ilona Chukhua, Safety Academia.

What you take away

  • A completed table canvas, shared with the room
  • A practical way to teach and assess safety and sustainability together
  • De-identified examples from colleagues across contexts
  • A participation certificate
  • Access to the photo gallery and to the written synthesis afterwards
  • A surprise gift for distinguished participants

Safety is the foundation of green and fair work.

Safety and environmental responsibility usually appear in VET as separate topics, taught and assessed apart from each other. This session asks one narrower question:

Can a learner demonstrate both within the same occupational task? Can an assessor observe that performance? And what must a provider or employer supply to make it possible?

You will test a task-design method, challenge another table’s work, and leave a documented set of proposals and objections for EfVET’s consideration.

We bring a method; you bring the evidence. This is a facilitated shared brainstorm, not a showcase of one college. Colleagues from other systems and institutions may have equal or deeper experience with this question, and the session runs on it. Bring one example from your own system or institution, one that worked or one that did not, and put it on the table. Share your example.

🤖 This session is not recorded or transcribed. AI helps only to collect responses and draft the report. Taking part is voluntary. Read the notice.

Your 60 minutes

Open
One occupational task: can we teach and assess worker safety and sustainability inside it? The QR 3 vote (which table presented best) and its criteria are announced, and each team is invited to choose its Voice of the Team, who speaks for the group and receives a certificate.
QR 1 · Does safety and sustainability belong in every programme you run?
Individual, anonymous answer. Results are from this room, aggregated only. We ask the same question again after the table work.
Framing
Compliance or culture? Knowing does not produce doing. One task, four questions: the four circles of the table canvas.
Worked example: welding a metal frame
The four questions on one illustrative task, to be challenged and transferred to your sector, plus examples for tables that get stuck.
Turn to your neighbour
Phones away. Use the pair card, including one example from your own context or programme. Switch halfway.
Table design: one task, four circles
One canvas and one checklist per table. The facilitators call time.
Cross-table challenge
Exchange canvases with another sector. Write one objection; the owner revises.
One sentence per table
Actor + action + setting + evidence of success.
QR 2 · Has your answer changed?
The same question as QR 1, answered again after the table work. Anonymous; the room compares the two results. Never used for awards.
Table pitches
A short pitch: task, proposed change, one unresolved objection.
Photos, awards and close
Share your photos, QR 3: the room votes for the table that presented best (the winning table receives a gift; every table gets a thank-you), certificates, what happens next.

QR activities & handouts

QR 1 · Opening question

Does safety and sustainability belong in every programme you run? Answer once, individually.

Open QR 1

QR 2 · Has your answer changed?

The same question again, after the table work. Anonymous; no names or emails collected.

Open QR 2

QR 3 · Which table presented best?

At the end, everyone votes for the table that presented best, and the winning table receives a gift. Every table gets a thank-you. One vote per phone, not your own table; opens at the end.

Open QR 3

What we reward, and why

The room votes for the table that presented best (QR 3), on four criteria announced at the start. The winning table receives a gift, and every table receives a small thank-you gift.

Open

Pair card

Print or view on screen.

PDF

Table canvas · four circles

Canvas, challenge, one sentence and pitch.

PDF

Team checklist

A short list to keep your table on track and on time.

PDF

Participant booklet

How AI is used, your data, the table vote and awards, what happens next.

PDF

If a QR poll fails, show your answer with fingers 1 to 4, for QR 1 and QR 2. Nothing in this session depends on the technology working.

Share your example

How does your context or programme already handle this? Tell the room about one practice you know: a task where learners meet safety and sustainability together, an assessment that makes it visible, or an attempt that did not work and why. Bring it to your table, or leave it here before or after the session. Examples are shared with the room and, with your permission, included in the synthesis.

No name or email is needed. Please do not name your organisation, a person or a place. By pressing Share you agree that the facilitators may review and show your example to the room. See the Privacy & AI notice.

Key takeaways

  • A practical task-design method, tested and sharpened by the room, that you can take back to your own VET programmes.
  • An illustrative example built to be challenged (welding a metal frame in the training workshop): the four questions, learner outcome, practice, observable assessment, enabling conditions.
  • Paired occupational examples drawn from your own sectors, and examples participants bring from their own systems.
  • Experience challenging and revising a design against a different sector’s test.
  • One task, four questions: worker controls · others affected · resources used · longer effects, plus the enabling conditions the provider or employer must supply.

What you get afterwards

  • A written synthesis of all proposals, objections, evidence gaps and the examples from your own systems that participants chose to share, submitted to EfVET for consideration after the workshop. It does not claim policy adoption.
  • The report, drafted with AI support from the collected responses and facilitators' notes and checked by the facilitators, is shared by email with participants who left their address.

Resources

Print for each table

All files are A4. Numbers here are printing logistics only.

Needed by every table

  1. printable-table-pack.pdf · 4 pages · A4 portrait · 1 copy per table
    Pair card with worked example (2 pages) and table canvas with challenge sheet (2 pages).
  2. pair-card.pdf · 2 pages · A4 portrait · 2 extra copies per table
    One pair card per pair: with the one inside the pack, that covers three pairs at a table of six.
  3. team-checklist.pdf · 1 page · A4 portrait · 1 copy per table
    Optional.
  4. certificate-voice-of-the-team-blank.pdf · 1 page · A4 landscape · 1 copy per table
    Optional printed or handwritten extra for each table's Voice of the Team, who also downloads the certificate on a phone.
  5. certificate-digital-collaboration-blank.pdf · 1 page · A4 landscape · 1 copy per table
    Handwritten thank-you for tables that share their work digitally.

Needed once for the room

  1. table-qr-codes.pdf · 2 pages · A4 portrait · 1 copy for the room
    Cut into one QR card per table: tables 1 to 6 on page 1, 7 to 9 on page 2 (9 tables of six, 54 seats). Place one card on each table.
  2. vote3-qr-card.pdf · print page 1 only · A4 portrait (two A5 cards per sheet) · optional, 1 sheet for the room
    QR 3 vote card (which table presented best), a backup for the slide.
  3. table-examples.pdf · 3 pages · A4 portrait · optional, 1 copy for the room
    One example per table, marked EXAMPLE ONLY (the same examples are on each table's phone page). Cut out and place each example at its table if the phones or Wi-Fi fail.
  4. gallery-qr-card.pdf · print page 1 only · A4 portrait (two A5 cards per sheet) · 1 sheet for the room
    Photo gallery QR. Print more sheets if you want a card on every table.
  5. register-qr-card.pdf · print page 1 only · A4 portrait (two A5 cards per sheet) · 1 sheet for the room
    Registration QR, for the entrance or a wall.
  6. certificate-participation-blank.pdf · 1 page · A4 landscape · a few spare copies for the room
    Participants download their own participation certificate digitally; these are spares.

Optional and screen only

Handouts

Background reading (optional; not covered on the slides)

  • Council Recommendation on learning for the green transition and sustainable development, eur-lex.europa.eu
  • GreenComp, the European sustainability competence framework, Joint Research Centre
  • EU-OSHA, OSHVET project: OSH in vocational education and training, osha.europa.eu
  • EfVET, Call for workshops and roundtables, efvet.org

Attendees’ answers describe their views; they do not establish national rankings, causal learning impact or EfVET adoption.

Safety Academia: www.safetyacademia.edu.ge

Feedback & stay in touch (optional)

How useful was this session? One score from 1 to 5, two optional comments and, if you want the workshop follow-up, your email. It takes one minute.

Tell us how it went (1 minute)

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Contact

Davit Mazmishvili and Ilona Chukhua
Safety Academia Vocational College, Tbilisi
davit@safetyacademia.edu.ge
Data requests: speak to a facilitator or write to the address above.