I am noticing an interesting but disturbing trend … companies are cutting back on training. In his article in the July 2009 issue of “Hydrocarbon Processing”, Heinz Bloch goes so far as to say this about company management and training “…Management will not support what it deems of little value….” (and I do not think… Read more »
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How do YOU select a facilitator for a risk assessment
While delivering a training course on risk assessment, one of the delegates asked that particular question. In thinking about it, my answer needed two parts: 1. I needed to genuinely answer his question 2. I needed to not provide a blatant description of myself (while I may not always succeed, I do try to be… Read more »
WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN WE EXPECT YOUNG GRADUATE ENGINEERS TO HAVE EXCELLENT COMPUTER SKILLS
When we hire a graduate engineer to join our organisation (something we did quite frequently before the global financial crisis), we probably expected them to have “excellent computer skills”. What are “excellent computer skills”? Recently, I introduced a final year engineering student to an internet search engine called “Google”. Did this person have “excellent computer… Read more »
ARE INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS BECOMING THE NEW SAFETY ENGINEERS OR SHOULD PROCESS CHEMICAL ENGINEERS TAKE IT BACK FROM THEM
Every so often, I read an article that really grabs me. I read one the other day in “The Chemical Engineer” magazine (March 2009). The author (Clive de Salis) opens with the sentence … “To have a SIL- (safety integrity level) rated safety loop is not a success, it’s a failure….” How could one not… Read more »