UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2019. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch coordinated a job skills contest for the company’s front loader drivers, the company’s press service reports.

‘The first prize went to Viktor Gurnik, a front loader driver with thirty years’ work experience. Andrei Yanchenko came second and Mikhail Beloussov came third. Six drivers, all of them employed at the Transport Department and holding Job Class 6, competed in the contest all in all. Both the winners and the other contestants received honorary certificates and money premiums,’ the company says.

The job skills contest for front loader drivers was the second round of FORES’s pre-New Year Best in Profession Contest. This year, the contest was coordinated at the company’s Asbest branch for the first time. Asbest Polytechnic acted as the partner in the organization and coordination of the contest. The first round took place on December 19, when the company’s electric/gas welders took part in the job skills contest.

‘Next year, the company will keep holding job skills contest at our Asbest branch. The plan is to involve people working in other blue-collar jobs, including charge makers,’ OOO FORES’s press service reports.