Trainee

Dose (mSv in any calendar year) Employee aged 18 or over Trainee under 18 All others... 

Health and safety legislation and trainees (a guide for employers)... 

Finally, at 12 noon, the reflux drum overflowed, and there was a spillage of flammable oil. From 7 a.m. onward, a trainee served as operator, but a lead operator was present, and the foreman visited the control room from time to time. 

While you may gtoup trainees in any of a number of ways, consider at least four btoad categories managers, trainers, employees, and others—for example, contractors. The following discussion focuses on the training needs of each of these trainee groups and some of the techniques you may want to consider for addressing them. 

Definition of competence assessment methods. The definition of formal methods of assessing competence is a neglected area in many training programs. It is obviously necessary to ensure that trainees possess the necessary skills to do the job at the end of the training program. 

The scope of initial training always covers an induction period of perhaps four weeks, during which the trainee learns about the structure of the company which he has joined and the administration which he will be expected to carry out in the field. It is important that he learns about the legislation which applies to his job and the statutory forms which he must use. Surveyors are often required to keep a notebook, the purpose of which is similar to that of a police officer. He will later be required to cover the interests of all the clients who are his district , and he must therefore set up in his home the necessary administrative and record-keeping facilities to enable him to do this effectively and economically. 

The trainee then returns to head office and continues training under a head office engineer, who may be especially skilled in training techniques or may be the supervising or section engineer to whom the trainee will later be responsible. 

The trainee will visit other departments in the head office to learn about the supporting facilities which are available such as non-destructive testing, metallurgical and failure analysis, hazard analysis and quality assurance. Emphasis is laid on safety, i.e. the integrity and safety of the plant in operation and on the surveyor s own personal safety. It is important that the trainee understands the techniques involved, particularly the limitations of their application. 

Mentoring has also provided a practical alternative to conventional training courses, which are typically run in a manner resembling school classes (i.e. with one active player, the teacher/trainer, lecturing numerous passive recipients, the pupils/trainees). Until recently, training courses have been the... 

Setting up meetings with the other trainees to exchange information about how to get the best out of their mentoring relationship. 

Finding additional ways of supporting trainees to stay focused on developing themselves, as this can often be pushed to the background given the daily duties of their jobs. 

The evaluation survey used to identify the benefits associated with mentoring also revealed some room for improvement. The improvements have since been implemented, leading to an even better service of mentoring for trainees. In particular, the following aspects seemed to be in need of revision ... 

The needs of your trainees (e.g. mentors, mentees and relationship supervisors). 

Table 9.1 Trainee groups within mentoring programs...

Identifying the knowledge, skills and attitudes that each trainee group needs in order to perform their role effectively. 

Once you have carried out these three steps, you will be able to choose appropriate training objectives and design effective programs tailored to your trainees needs. In this section, we will consider the topic of training needs analysis in more... 

Among the methods that can be used to establish the training needs of mentoring scheme trainees are ... 

Deciding which trainee group should be trained together, and... 

On the other hand, there are companies and consultants that tend to keep trainee groups, particularly mentors and mentees, strictly separate. For some, such as the Yellowbrick Consultancy (Yellowbrick Consulting, 2000), this seems to be a matter of principle ... 

In general, we believe that some combination of trainee groups is advantageous. What are these advantages ... 

Pairing trainee groups takes some of the pressure off the training administrator and is a more cost-efficient way of running training programs. 

On the basis of the above. Table 9.2 shows our suggested approach to the pairing of trainee groups. 

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