Importance of Staff Education

WAYNE DOUGLAS of E.B.Mawsons & Sons Pty Ltd reports on the importance of keeping your staff educated.

CONDUCT CRUSHING AND SCREENING

Back in May a Conduct Crushing and Screening Course was held in Bendigo. We felt privileged to have personal training; with the course attendees consisting of five employees from Mawson’s. Our expert trainer – Noel Pickering (Training Consultant Extractive Industries Industry Education and Training) was in charge and made our course pleasurable, informative, and educational with his vast industry experience and knowledge.

Noel’s portrayal of the course was relayed by videos, slides, actual personal involvement and he encouraged participation of our personnel with each employee talking about aspects of their quarry operations during discussion periods. During the course we discussed and witnessed the parameters of crushing followed by screening issues.

Safety was always at the forefront of each item of topic from operations through to maintenance. The course covered the types of crushers available and how they operated, different types of steels and their uses.

Maintenance operations were also discussed during the crushing component which gave a better understanding of overall requirements.

We then moved onto screen types, how they operated and why they we used. The screened media type was also discussed with different materials, processes, benefits, advantages and disadvantages.

Next on the agenda was conveyors, feeders, hoppers and bins. Different types of operations and maintenance requirements were again portrayed with active participation and discussions by attendees.

Also covered was material on the different types of screens, both fixed and portable and the differences between them. Conducting plant operations was broken down to discuss the production requirements through preparations, processing, monitoring, quality, output emissions and maintenance.

A lot of effort has been put into this course with the content which was passed on by a very knowledgeable, down to earth trainer which made our trip an enjoyable and educational pleasure to attend.

It was beneficial to all who attended and a highly recommended course to all CMPA members.

WORK SAFELY TRAINING

The number one priority for E.B.Mawsons and Sons Pty Ltd is safety and therefore this course is mandatory for all Mawson’s quarry and maintenance workshop employees.

Conducted over two separate days, in following weeks, employees are shown the essential requirements of understanding, operating and working safely alongside their fellow workers. This involves all the aspects throughout the quarry site from site safety procedures, personal safety, operational safety and the prevention of incidents.

We have found the ‘quicker’ we can have new employees involved with this training course – the better their understanding is developed and this helps with their day to day well being, participation and performance.

All employees are also actively involved in OHS meetings, with each quarry site meeting regularly in which all site employees attend the meeting. Therefore attending the Work Safely course reinforces our companys approach to safety as they ‘marry’ up to each other. Noel Pickering’s (Training Consultant Extractive Industries Industry Education & Training) vast industry experience makes this journey of training and education an enjoyable one to attend for all.

You must be logged in to post a comment Login