Community Teams work issues 185-6 training

Another important issue to communicate in relation to prestait training is that whereas safety training may attempt to ensure safety, new team members will still lack familiarity (see Chap. 7) with the specific equipment used by the team, their specific work environment, and the specific way members of the team do their job. Thus, prestart training generally, and always, has a limited potential to ensure new employee safety. 

Good practice checklists, discussion in an expert team and exploration of scenarios are centra elements. Check lists cover seven elements Organisation and management. Procedures, work descriptions and workload. Competence and training, Communication/distributed situational awareness, Working environment. Layout, and Control and safety systems. The checklists explores key human factors (safety) issues in each area, i.e. when discussing control systems the use of alarms is explored and a question is the existence of an alarm philosophy , and performance issues of alarm handling such as the acceptable number of alarms pr. hour. 

Ideally, the maintenance professional knows how to treat, share and communicate lessons learned within his or her work team and contribute to the rest of the organization (again, information technology can be of vital assistance here). Professionals know or are trained to translate minor events into generic issues. Another paradox may exist here on the one hand the maintenance professional deals daily with concrete equipment problems, but on the other hand he or she is expected to think in the abstract to be able to relate minor occurrences to broader generic issues. 

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