28th June 2014, 03:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 28th June 2014, 03:54 AM by kevin wooldridge.)
P Prentice Wrote:that's what supervisors are for. and yes i can train most people to be perfectly adequate diggers in two weeks and i can train a supervisor in two years
I don't think it is possible or at least that statement needs qualifying......the point of 'skills' is surely one of practice and application. How can anyone experience all of the potential scenarios where skills might be applied in 2 weeks at the same time as learning the skills.....
We are currently training staff in the setting up and use of the TST. After 2 weeks they are competent enough to set up the station and backsight prism on their own within about 10 minutes.....but do they know anything about resectioning, traversing, non-digital survey, offsetting, digital data editing or even how to get the set-up time down to less than 5 minutes......er NO!! That would come after several weeks/months/years more training and experience.....
I recently watched a number of folk planning using a combination of planning frame and offset lines......a job that would take me (or BAJR!!) 10 minutes or so took others between 30 minutes and 2 hours for roughly the same size feature. I could claim that having shown a length of string, a frame, a pencil and drawing film to those folk for 5 minutes that they were trained, but I couldn't cos that wouldn't be the truth.......when they can show competence, accuracy and speed, thats when I'd consider them trained!!
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