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I'm looking for examples of how others ensure machinery (FLT's etc) users are still competent to operate the machinery when they have not used it for a long time.
If you use the equipment every day you keep up your skills etc. But if you only occasionally operate the equipment say every month or perhaps less frequently are you still competent?
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Polo
Taking your FLT operators as an example, following training they can learn some bad habits whether using daily or once in a while.
The art is to make sure that their supervisors can recognise the bad habits - this may mean a need to train the supervisors - doesn't mean putting them through full FLT operator training but rather an awareness "course" however delivered.
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Peter
That Awareness word again. Yes supervisors are always the key and in my days on site I always said to supervisors that they should be performance checking routinely simply by observing the behaviours of the operatives. For machinery they can develop short test processes to use when somebody has not undertaken a task for some time.
Bob
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Hi Polo,
You could increase your refresher training schedules. Industry standard is 3-5 Years, you could always do it yearly for those that rarely use the equipment. Only has to be a 1-2 Day refresher.
An alternative is job rotation (if possible) to ensure that operators get a chance to use the equipment and some exposure through out the year.
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