I would say that training required one to be patient and also understanding because we worked as a group.The level of understanding,interpretation and also the manner we brought it forth was always going to be different. Some people loved training and others did not but the common thing is that all of us benefited from the training department.
Now lets talk about BIT. Well things in the first week started very slowly and I was bored out of skull. During this week we attended a few training session but nothing out of the ordinary. We are used to seeing people training other people and I started seeing some mistakes that were being committed by the trainers but that is ok because they have not gone through the intense training that we went through.
The second week was a bit interesting because we went to do our medicals and the inductions.
We all passed the medicals and that was interesting to see the sought of things that workers have to go through in order to have a job. But it shows commitment by the mine in the health facility that they provide for their workers.
Well BHP Billiton's inductions is much better organized and presented than Murray & Roberts' one that we attended at Melrose Arch when we spent about two weeks on their site working for a constructor.
We started working on the software but that was nothing new caused we had received training on it.
But what I found to be interesting is the software that BHP has relating to Risk Assessment and how it can be combined with our own BBS software to create a hybrid software that covers the safety process in its entirety.
The third week has been interesting in that we have been doing some productive work. We have been compiling and populating the BBS software with critical conditions and task.
This is not difficult rather tedious but necessary for our development and experience. I have to say I have learnt a lot during the past weeks. Our supervisor has been helpful but you must prove yourself to him that you can do the work before he can entrust you with some responsibilities. In this instance I think I have done enough to convince him that I can do the work.
During the remaining weeks my objectives are to learn and take the experience back to the office and look at how we can improve our software,systems and also how we can standardize the terms and descriptions of conditions and tasks throughout .
