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Training and further education: qualification of young employees SIG also assumes an important role in the training of young people. SIG Combibloc in Linnich, Germany, for example, is the largest private-sector training organization in its region. Subjects such as occupational health and safety are integrated into the apprenticeship training curriculum. In its apprenticeship training programme, SIG Combibloc in Austria’s Saalfelden – one of the biggest employers in the area – scores highly thanks to the insight that trainees gain through working in an internationally active group. In the commercial sector, apprentices are rotated through all relevant departments of the company on a half-yearly basis. Industrial apprenticeships are complemented through cooperation with regional training workshops. At Neuhausen in Switzerland, the headquarters of SIG, we jointly support with Georg Fischer AG, the SIG Georg Fischer BZ Vocational Training Centre. Apprentices from both SIG and Georg Fischer, but also from other companies, are trained at this vocational college. The training facilities and the infrastructure of the BZ do much to reduce the workload of those companies and their apprentice instructors. The BZ, which also schools apprentices from the SIG Holding Ltd., SIG allCap and SIG ID, strives to impart a holistic training approach. To provide the apprentices with professional, methodological and social competencies, the training syllabus incorporates rational and emotional elements. |
