Better Factories Cambodia: Our Training Courses

Steam boiler is widely used in the garment and footwear factories in Cambodia to serves as ironing, drying, and steaming. Boiler hazards lead to generate high risks in the factories especially boiler explosion hazard. Recently, there were some cases of boiler explosion that killed the workers. This training guide the factories through essential precautions to mitigate the risks of fire, and explosion from the steam boilers.

The safety precaution of workers against chemical hazards is an essential part of a well-run factory and a healthy work force. This training introduces the safe use of chemicals ensuring factories mitigate the risks associated with chemicals in garment factories.

This training equips participants with the knowledge and skills to design and manage factory payment and incentive schemes in a fair, equitable and consistent manner, in accordance with Cambodia’s labour law.

Clear disciplinary and termination procedures make sure that a company’s standards of conduct and performance at work are followed. This training provides factories with a built in method to understand, monitor and address human resource challenges.

Through effective communication in the factory, workers and managers learn to understand each other’s rights, responsibilities and resolve conflict in a fair and harmonious manner. This training outlines the steps required to the improve the communication skills of managers and workers.

Problem solving skills in the workplace means minor issues and problems do not escalate into wider conflict which can disrupt production. This training guides participants to successfully address problems within the enterprise, building trust and strengthening labour management relations in the factory.

Electrical and fire hazards are one of the biggest risks to safety in the garment and footwear sector. This training guides factories through essential precautions and behaviours to mitigate the risk of fire.

This training provides knowledge of freedom of association and recognition of the rights and protections of trade union organizations and workers. This goes hand in hand with lawful collective bargaining, effective dispute resolution and contributes to factories’ good industrial relations.

Hazards are existed in the whole production areas and it can be happened anytime. Most of the accidents caused by the recognized and unforeseen hazards that impacts to the factories and workers in term of business operation and safe working conditions. This training will build and enhance the capacity of person in charge of workplace safety to know-how to identify, recognized, mitigate, and control the hazards at workplace and conduct the risk rating of those hazards for the prioritization before applying the effective the controls.

Sound Human Resource Management (HRM) is essential for a productive and compliant factory. The investment of human and financial resource is crucial for a motivated and productive workforce. This training is designed to provide participants with an in depth knowledge of highly functioning HR systems.

Factories that understand and comply with labour laws and international labour standards tend to have good reputations, repeat orders and better relationships with buyers. This course is designed to give participants a strong understanding of Cambodian Labour Law and how to apply it to day to day activities.

Good leaders are invaluable to any organization. This training is aimed at increasing the capacity of participants in their own roles as well as giving them the opportunity to develop and coach others. Good leaders know how to do the right thing, this training aims to empower participants to take the first steps in a leadership role.

Workplace accidents can occur as a combination of unsafe conditions and unsafe acts. With the right training, they can easily be prevented ensuring that employees remain safe and the workplace remains secure and productive.

Good Occupational Health & Safety (OSH) is good for business. This course builds awareness of OSH as an integral part of factory management. Focusing on a preventative approach to OSH including risk mapping, it guides participants to spot hazards, meet national and international standards and the understand the role of the OSH committee.

PICC drives improvement in the workplace by ensuring workers and employers communicate and work together to address workplace issues through honest, respectful and informative dialogue.

Problem solving skills in the workplace means minor issues and problems do not escalate into wider conflict which can disrupt production. This training guides participants to successfully address problems within the enterprise, building trust and strengthening labour-management relations in the factory.

Safe workplaces create healthy and productive employees. The training introduces simple and low cost practices which participants can apply in their factory to ensure good working conditions and a productive working environment.

SST has been proven to increase the productivity of lines supervised by trained female supervisors, as it reduces the time needed to reach production targets, resulting in a 22 % increase in productivity.

This training is for supervisors who have completed BFC’s supervisory skills training. Participants acquire the skills to deliver SST training in factories. This will give factories the opportunity to have their own in house trainers for current and future supervisors.

Effective workplace communication is essential in ensuring harmonious workers management relations, and a productive environment. This training provides an overview of ways in which workplace cooperation can be established in factories, including developing internal dispute resolution mechanisms to address and find a solution to grievances.