Required online training

It is a good thing this place is here. I would cut my wrists if I had to watch the stupid videos before the tests...

 

In regards to what?

 

Lockout / tagout, Radiation, hand safety, electrical safety, dropped objects, lithium batteries, explosives awareness, Working with high pressures, etc. All Corporate ass covering stuff so they can say we are "Trained". I have been doing this stuff for over 20 years and have to do these every year or every other year depending on the course and they do not let you fast forward through the video. It's a gigantic waste of time that could be better spent beebing.
My attitude was much better prior to the pay cuts over the past 2 years...

 

I do those same yearly online training courses. And yes, only so my company can put a checkbox next to my name and cover their asses. Pretty sure the guys making the material have never been in the field either.

 

I hate those videos too.

And every time someone in the field decides to take a shortcut and gets fried by switchgear, wears a too-loose jacket around machinery and gets pulled in, or decides to operate a machine that has clearly been tagged out and gets a body-part squished.. I get another video to make everyone watch and make them sign another document.

 

I'll trade you for the 16 hours of HR online training I have to do every year.

 

I had to be certified online to operate a golf cart at NHMS. Some years ago somebody fell off the back seat of one and sued the shit out of NHIS. SMI inherited the mess when they bought the track.

 

You beotches need to stop your whining! I'd kill to have my 40 hours of in-service, online. Some of the most boring, wrist cutting waste of time there is.

 

Sweet. I'll take 16 Hours vs. the 40+ hours I did just last week

 

That's the crux of it all.

It's not the fact that the accident happened and we determine the root cause was the result of incompetence or stupidity. In the result of a fatality or serious injury, he who has the biggest pocketbook bares the burden of trying to prove why every safeguard (even some that haven't been invented yet) was or was not present and in working order to prevent the injured party from hurting themselves.

The first question is always "was the individual trained properly?" You never ever want to miss that question. That's what the sign in sheet is for.

 

I'm glad someone else feels my Pain....

 

Yep. It is always about liability. I am on the operations side and get about 30-40 hrs online training a year but fortunately I have done them enough times I just put the video on play, surf the internet and then do the quiz at the end. The funny thing is almost all of the safety stuff can be summed up by saying "don't put your hands anywhere you would not put your dick and keep your head out of your ass..." That was the actual safety briefing I received my first day on a drilling rig. I followed those rules and have successfully managed 26 years without an injury.

 

It's amazing how a quick, concise, and to the point message will get the point across. But nooooooooooooooooooo... We want you to put all your staff through a 2 hour course because we think it will really get the point across.

I have one video that is so old, the managers are smoking in their offices and using electronic typewriters.

 

Did you know sexual harrasment can happen away from the office?

 

Did you know you can take FMLA for a porn addiction?

 

Where to you work?

 

I just finished a TDG (transportation of dangerous goods) course online. It should have only taken a couple of hours to watch the videos, but I had to do it over two days because I couldn't stop falling asleep. Why can't they make the videos entertaining?

 

The Evil Red Empire known as Halliburton up in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

 

I am reminded of the time a whole group of managers (young guys) surprised one of their female colleagues with a stripper after an annual meeting. That was an interesting time

 

40 yrs in the nuclear industry....Did you know it's important to keep control of the core? I do, my yearly training told me so. Fortunately, many of our routine retests can be skipped and go directly to the test questions. Don't flunk or you'll be but back into beginner training...still, if you can walk, talk and chew gum at the same time there's very little chance of that.