Project Update: (Issue 26)

Teaching a Person to Squash Rocks and Sort Sands

Squashing rocks and sorting sands is something most of you do every day, but would your business be able to teach someone new to your site how to do just that? Do you have the ability to present new technologies and to give that person the skills that will improve the efficiency of your business?

Most Members don’t and those who do would struggle to find the time and money required teaching this every time someone new is engaged on site. This operator training is an essential task that many Members therefore outsource to the like of a TAFE provider.

But here is the problem—the TAFE providers can teach a person and present new ideas, but they don’t know the ins and outs of squashing rocks and sorting sands!

Just ask your provider the difference between a double toggle and single toggle primary crusher or how to track conveyor belts in the most safe and effective manner.

This is where the ‘Crushing and Screening Reference Manuals’ come in. The CMPA is now developing eight reference manuals that a TAFE can use to teach your operators all about squashing rocks and sorting sands (and the maintenance that goes with it).

These tools are being developed by John Bonnitcha (formally of Terex Jaques, now with Box Hill Institute of TAFE) and will involve meeting with many of you and your operators to find out exactly what you need a new operator to know and how you expect them to do it.

At this early stage, the tools are expected to cover areas of:

• Safety
• Serviceability
• Technical support
• Operator maintenance
• Inventory
• Equipment reference

As a Member of the CMPA, you will own part of these tools. It is important then that you support this project where you can—financially, assisting John and the team, or providing some photos of how jobs should be done.

The final ‘Crushing and Screening Reference Manuals’ will be a tool for your TAFE provider to teach your new staff undertaking Certificate II how to squash rocks and sort sands.

You must be logged in to post a comment Login