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3. Training should, as far as possible, provide adults with background knowledge related to the occupations they are learning and to the industries in which they wish to be employed, with a view, in particular, to facilitating upgrading. 4. Training of unemployed adults should not be used as a substitute for unemployment insurance or assistance systems but should be used to facilitate the re-employment of unemployed workers who require training in order to find suitable employment. 111. Scope of Training 5. (1) Appropriate training facilities should, as far as possible, be made available for adults, either by adapting training facilities for young persons or by setting up special facilities or by both methods. (2) Such facilities should be organized, in accordance with the principles and methods set forth in the present Recommendation, in a manner which takes due account of national circumstances, the needs of the different branches of economic activity, and the interests of the workers. (3) Such facilities should be sufficiently developed to include appropriate arrangements for initial, refresher, supplementary and upgrading training. (4) Such facilities should include, inter alia, appropriate provision for the training of the following categories of persons — (a) Demobilized persons and war victims who need training in order to find suitable employment; (b) Disabled persons who need training in order to find suitable employment ; (c) Unemployed adults who are unlikely to find further employment in their own occupations or who need training in order to help them secure re-employment in their own occupations ; (d) Adults who wish to learn an occupation in which there is a long-term manpower shortage ; (e) Workers who become redundant in their occupations as a result of technological developments ; (/) Adults in over-manned occupations who wish to prepare for employment in other occupations ; (g) Adults who seek to emigrate under Government-sponsored migration arrangements and who need training in order to adapt their skill to the employment situation in a country of immigration ; (h) Immigrants admitted for employment who need training to adapt their skill to the employment situation in the country of immigration. 6. Priorities in admission to training facilities for adults outside the undertakings should be established, where necessary, according to the public interest. 7. Suitable training facilities should be made available for both production workers and supervisors. 8. Women as well as men should have access to training facilities for adults. IV. Methods op Training Training of Production Workers 9. (1) Vocational selection should precede admission to training. (2) Such selection should be designed to determine the most suitable occupation for the worker and should include, as appropriate in individual cases and with suitable safeguards for the worker, an analysis of physical and mental capacity and of vocational experience, aptitudes and interests.

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