July 15, 2021.- Occupational health and safety has been an essential part of the objectives of COCESNA and its ICCAE Training Institute since its creation and through different pronouncements, it has been highlighted that having safe and healthy environments is essential to build an efficient and to contribute to the goal of social justice.
Therefore, COCESNA-ICCAE, with the objective of fulfilling a fundamental role in preventing and spreading SARS-CoV-2 in face-to-face courses, contemplates factors such as maintaining social distancing in classrooms and simulators, the possibility of staggering the class shifts, decrease the degree of face-to-face interaction of externals with the participants, and the inclusion of classes remotely, administrative control provisions, in addition to the geographical isolation of the place of accommodation. Each course began with an awareness talk for the participants, generating a culture of prevention and self-care during their stay at the institute.
Since January twenty-fifth, the first group of participants for face-to-face courses was inaugurated, with the participation of the Member States of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize have participated successfully during the courses that have taken place to date, therefore that recurrence training for air traffic control has been successfully carried out, among other air navigation courses and airports to later return to the countries of origin trained.
The ICCAE facilities have been equipped with stations for hand washing and thermometers that do not require contact, as well as partitions between the pseudo-pilot stations of the ATC simulators. In an extraordinary situation, such as the one currently experienced, it is necessary to apply strategies that allow teaching-learning events to continue in person, remotely or combined. Aeronautical instruction cannot stop despite the pandemic, but it cannot be the same again either, because crises, well managed, are excellent opportunities to promote development