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  • Annual Training Hours

    Posted by craig-sutherlandcountiesenergy-co-nz on 12 August 2024 at 2:15 pm

    Hi all,

    We are trying to sense check if we are delivering enough safety/technical training and refreshers to our field staff. We currently assign about 40 hours annually per field worker.

    Is this hitting the mark or should we be doing more in this space.

    Please feel free to email me on craig.sutherland@countiesenergy.co.nz

    Graeme Johnson replied 3 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Graeme Johnson

    Member
    13 August 2024 at 7:11 am

    About right, its dependant on role.
    A little bit more for us next year as we take staff through live LV training

  • Mark Keller

    Member
    13 August 2024 at 8:32 am

    Hi Craig, I would think 40 hrs per annum is close, we did a little more in the last year with competency assessments, a revision of our permitting and switching training and some LV Works Management training. Our Live Line teams do at least 16hrs more than other field workers (56hrs) with their annual refresher.

    Cheers

  • Shaun Colley

    Member
    13 August 2024 at 8:51 am

    Hi Craig,

    As Graeme mentioned, it does depend on the role and what you consider safety/refresher training and where the training is to be undertaken e.g. in the field during the normal course of work or removing employees from the field for specific training.

    It doesn’t take long to blow through 40 hours if you are undertaking training off-job.

    We do a mixture of Forklift (0.5 day), LUV (1 day), 4WD offroad (2 days), HV & LV switching (0.5-1 day), EWRB competency course (1 day), Level 2 First Aid (1 day), Plant cert training (1 day), Internal company specific safety day (1 day), chainsaw (1 day), heavy 4WD offroad (1 day), network competency course (1 day), cable location training (1 day), traffic management (3-5 days), and some other less critical training e.g. standards and policy familiarisation training/awareness e.g. network design and earthing standards, LMS and internal IT systems familiarisation etc.

    Looking at the various refresher frequencies we have it would work out @50 hours yearly, not including any contingency for refresher training post ICAM/incident event which happens occasionally.

    We are looking at ways of increasing our on-job observations/evaluations to limit the non-chargeables without decreasing the value of the training or interrupting the workflow too much, sometimes off-job is simply a far better option.

    Regards

    Shaun

  • Robbie Skerten

    Member
    14 August 2024 at 12:51 pm

    Hi Craig,

    We cover off a majority of our refresher training over a 2-year cycle and average out at about 50hrs per year. We conduct safety days each March and September and spend time each year on induction requirements for 3rd parties(3hrs)

    Like Shaun, where we can, we use task observations on-site to conduct refresher/competency training.

    We also conduct a yearly review on our competency matrix to make sure the training carried out is relevant/required for the different roles at Mainpower.

    Robbie

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