Reduce the incidence of operating practices that can shorten dozer life and can cause unnecessary downtime. Help new dozer operators see how their performance affects the rest of the mine's production operations. Establish a benchmark level of skills for new and experienced dozer operators, which you can improve upon over time.
More quickly identify those operators with natural skills, as well as those whose skills aren't adequate to the challenges of operating a dozer at your site. And let's not forget the cost of possible human life when expected to push down an overhanging face. All helping you to grow the bottom line through improved operator productivity - quickly paying for itself.
You didn't learn to ride a bike by viewing PowerPoint slides. You learned by doing. It's the same way with adult learning. To be effective, training needs to combine multiple methods, resources and learning experiences - in other words, blended learning.
Easily accommodates different learning styles. Incorporates structured coaching, which provide trainees with immediate feedback. Establishes a framework that encourages self-directed learning. Provides coaches with assessment data, which enables them to focus their efforts where they're needed the most. Provides consistent instruction; all new operators receive the same critical safety messages.
As trainees learn dozer operation skills in the training modules and through the task model videos, a series of structured on-the-job activities help them to apply what they have learned. Trainers are enabled with coaching guides, which help them to structure these on-the-job activities; they also include space for recording operator assessments and notes.
Checklists provide documentation that the trainee has successfully completed each on-the-job exercises. Dozer operators can keep them in the cab and refer to them as needed, long after the training is over. VISTA also can produce on-the-job training OJT aids that provide additional training for specific models of dozers used at your facility, if needed. It again integrates web-based training; a simulator if you have one, and structured on-the-job training aids to help ensure trainee knowledge retention.
In addition, we added a new tool - task model videos. This unique design helps your mine reach new levels of productivity and safety while helping new and experienced dozer operators get proper bulldozer certifications.
Embedded "check your knowledge" quizzes measure what each student has learned. Test results can be stored in a learning management system and used to tailor coaching to each individual trainee. The ability to add affordable customized wrap around training for your simulator, if you have one. Task model videos are used because the coach cannot ride along in a dozer like they would in a haul truck. These videos have been designed to give the trainee both an in-the-cab and bird's eye view of the tasks being done by an experienced dozer operator.
On-the-job training OJT materials: Structured activities reinforce what trainees have learned in the online learning sessions. The field trainer versions of these OJT tools contain checklists and space for recording notes and operator assessments. Laminated diagrams: Laminated diagrams of dozer control layouts and pre-use inspection steps help operators retain what they've learned.
All of the elements of this training curriculum have been instructionally designed to meet the needs of adult learners. That, in turn, means less retraining in the field and faster onboarding.
Download Now. Traditional classroom training is no longer adequate to meet the needs of operators of today's sophisticated tasks of a dozer.
It's not enough to fill the heads of new trainees with information, and then expect them to operate complex production assets safely and productively.
Your operator-training program may be limiting your ability to improve productivity and safety in your mine. Do your dozer operators understand how their performance affects the mine's overall productivity and profitability? Dozers may perform tasks in the shovel pit, dump area, haul road, dikes and above the shovel. All of the tasks performed in these areas affect the mine's bottom line. This enables you to establish performance benchmarks and elevate the proficiency of all of your equipment operators.
You can also use a simulator to pre-screen new hires and identify those with the greatest natural aptitude for operating equipment. Not only does the experienced operator talk through what he is doing, but also you can see the task as it unrolls from both inside and outside the cab.
Embedded "check your knowledge" quizzes measure what each student has learned and field trainers to provide individualized coaching can use test results. Also included are checklists and instructions that help the operator to know what needs to be accomplished every step of the way from the pre-use to the shutdown. These tools also help instructors to assess the trainee's performance during field training.
VISTA's grader curriculum is designed to deliver millions of dollars of added value to your mine's bottom line, through increased productivity and reduced operating costs.
It can help you: Shorten the time it takes your mine to prepare new grader operators for on boarding. Improve the safety and productivity of your new grader operators. Reduce the incidence of operating practices that can shorten grader life and can cause unnecessary downtime. Help new grader operators see how their performance affects the rest of the mine's production operations. Establish a benchmark level of skills for new and experienced grader operators, which you can improve upon over time.
More quickly identify those operators with natural skills, as well as those whose skills aren't adequate to the challenges of operating a grader at your site. This unique design helps your mine reach new levels of productivity and safety while helping new and experienced dozer operators get proper bulldozer certifications.
Embedded "check your knowledge" quizzes measure what each student has learned. Test results can be stored in a learning management system and used to tailor coaching to each individual trainee. The ability to add affordable customized wrap around training for your simulator, if you have one. Task model videos are used because the coach cannot ride along in a dozer like they would in a haul truck. These videos have been designed to give the trainee both an in-the-cab and bird's eye view of the tasks being done by an experienced dozer operator.
On-the-job training OJT materials: Structured activities reinforce what trainees have learned in the online learning sessions. The field trainer versions of these OJT tools contain checklists and space for recording notes and operator assessments. Laminated diagrams: Laminated diagrams of dozer control layouts and pre-use inspection steps help operators retain what they've learned.
All of the elements of this training curriculum have been instructionally designed to meet the needs of adult learners. That, in turn, means less retraining in the field and faster onboarding. Download Now. Traditional classroom training is no longer adequate to meet the needs of operators of today's sophisticated tasks of a dozer. It's not enough to fill the heads of new trainees with information, and then expect them to operate complex production assets safely and productively. Your operator-training program may be limiting your ability to improve productivity and safety in your mine.
Do your dozer operators understand how their performance affects the mine's overall productivity and profitability? Dozers may perform tasks in the shovel pit, dump area, haul road, dikes and above the shovel.
All of the tasks performed in these areas affect the mine's bottom line. This enables you to establish performance benchmarks and elevate the proficiency of all of your equipment operators. You can also use a simulator to pre-screen new hires and identify those with the greatest natural aptitude for operating equipment.
Not only does the experienced operator talk through what he is doing, but also you can see the task as it unrolls from both inside and outside the cab.
Embedded "check your knowledge" quizzes measure what each student has learned and field trainers to provide individualized coaching can use test results. Also included are checklists and instructions that help the operator to know what needs to be accomplished every step of the way from the pre-use to the shutdown. These tools also help instructors to assess the trainee's performance during field training. VISTA's grader curriculum is designed to deliver millions of dollars of added value to your mine's bottom line, through increased productivity and reduced operating costs.
It can help you: Shorten the time it takes your mine to prepare new grader operators for on boarding. Improve the safety and productivity of your new grader operators. Reduce the incidence of operating practices that can shorten grader life and can cause unnecessary downtime. Help new grader operators see how their performance affects the rest of the mine's production operations. Establish a benchmark level of skills for new and experienced grader operators, which you can improve upon over time.
More quickly identify those operators with natural skills, as well as those whose skills aren't adequate to the challenges of operating a grader at your site. In addition, let's not forget the cost of possible human life when expected to travel the same roads the haul trucks, and other equipment are traveling. As trainees learn grader operation skills in the training modules and through the task model videos, a series of structured on-the-job activities help them to apply what they have learned.
Grader operators can keep them in the cab and refer to them as needed, long after the training is over. VISTA also can produce on-the-job training OJT aids that provide additional training for specific models of graders used at your facility, if needed.
In addition, we added a new tool - task model videos are again used in this training to allow the trainee to have a bird's-eye view of an experienced grader operator performing tasks. This unique design helps your mine reach new levels of productivity and safety while training new and experienced grader operators.
Embedded "check your knowledge" quizzes 81 questions measure what each student has learned. The ability to add affordable customized wrap around training for your simulator , if you have one. To ensure scientific validity, an "experimental" group was formed that included four trainers, 24 truck mentors and 22 haul-truck operator trainees from the mine's K and L shifts.
The "control" group, which continued to use Suncor's existing training program, consisted of I and J shift trainers, truck mentors and new haul-truck operator trainees. Because these shifts work during opposite time periods, there was no significant interaction between the two groups.
This enabled Suncor to obtain more accurate data comparing the performance of the two groups. As previously described, content in the computer-based program was delivered in chunks, to improve knowledge retention and was followed by immediate, practical and structured application practice hands on activities.
Several of these structured on-the-job activities are worth mentioning because they were new to Suncor and they turned out to be very effective:. Shock and awe: Early in the TruckLogic program, trainees take part in a field exercise where one person sits in the cab of a ton haul truck with a portable radio. The rest of the students and the field trainer who also has a radio place orange cones around the perimeter of the truck, one at a time.
They do this by walking a succession of straight lines away from the front and sides of the truck. As soon as the person in the cab can see the field trainer with the cone, he or she lets them know on the radio, and the trainer drops a cone on that spot. Additional cones are placed in the same way. In approximately 10 minutes, the team has created a visual representation of the perimeter of the blind area of the truck.
This unique, memorable hands-on activity tends to shock trainees into the realization that they must take great care when operating such a large haul truck.
Narrative coaching: As the mentor drives the truck, he describes what he is doing and, more importantly, why. This helps the trainee understand the nuances of controlling the truck, how the mentor makes decisions and trade-offs when approaching the shovel pit or a dump site, and other tips that help the trainee understand how to become a more skilled operator. This technique improves the transfer of the mentor's valuable knowl-edge—tips and know-how gleaned from years of experience—to the trainee.
When the mentor and trainee switch seats and the trainee is driving the truck, this form of "talk out loud" performance helps the mentor understand what the trainee is thinking and planning to do, so he or she can keep both of them, and others in the mine, safe.
Observation worksheets: These worksheets help initiate meaningful conversations between the trainee and mentor during the time spent driving in the mine. Trainees are directed to observe and record how the mentor handles the truck in various situations; for example, when approaching an intersection or encountering a disabled truck.
Trainees are also provided questions to ask their mentor. The questions focus on concepts, skills and areas within the mine; for example, the dump site or crusher that will be introduced in the next set of lessons. The Secret to Success A key element in the success of this training program is that it was extended to include the truck mentors—the critical link in the transfer of knowledge from the learning lab to the real-world environment of the haul truck.
Suncor made a major investment in developing its mentors by taking them through the entire training program, providing them with coaching skills and tools, and by providing a forum where they could share their concerns and discuss how to overcome obstacles encountered during field training.
Mentors who participated in the program reported very positive experiences. Although they had been filling these roles for some time, they now felt validated and recognized as a key part of the training process. Not only that, but they were given tools to help them be more successful as mentors. Rather than having to ask, "What do you want us to do with these trainees?
As supervisors and dispatchers began to interact with trainees and mentors who were trained in this new program, some of them asked to participate in it, too—an unexpected but welcome development. It was particularly important to gain the cooperation and support of the dispatchers, because several of the on-the-job activities require trucks to be taken out of the production loop for pre-use walk-around inspections, for example. Also, as trainees were learning how to operate a truck, mentors needed to arrange trips to specific pits and dump locations.
At Suncor, new hires are assigned to haul waste rather than ore, which means they would otherwise have to wait many weeks before they could practice positioning the haul truck at a crusher pocket. Dispatchers wanted to understand why the training department was requesting these changes and the benefits of doing so.
In addition, as word began to spread throughout the mine about TruckLogic, operators on the I and J shifts became anxious for the new program to be expanded to include them—the key point being they didn't view it as something that was being forced upon them; rather, they openly embraced it after hearing their coworkers talk about it.
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