I found it quite different comparing training on a particular course with doing a practical task on the same concepts.
The difference it made was for instance when I had tried driving a bobcat at Strydom Park, where I often had to labour/and observe the health and safety programme, plans or systems are in place as well as practically doing some where possible. Ironically, the conducisive environment provided for practical learning did not fully extenguish hazardous activities from taking place, because I almost had an accident while in the process of learning how to operate a bobcat, which happened to be one of the mobile equipments used.
The fact that there is no absolute risk free environment is absolutely true for every industry regardless of the core business of the company. It looks so simple what other people are doing for instance people doing labour, yet come to do what they are doing you find it pretty interesting to find that we can learn from them too.
I had observed that people may learn a lot from those actively practicing SHEQ related activities if we were fully aware of the fact that leading by example is the best way to teach in demonstrating the concepts we talk about.
Boring sometimes as it may have been, there were also exciting moments when I saw the real essence of significantly contributing to the guy's safety. It happened when I chated with the guys on their safety on the site; being taken seriously by being listened to. Some guys would toil without personal protective equipment (PPE) and so forth.
At the end of the day I learned how to do the SHEQ related duties better; whilst on the other hand some people learned how to do their work better by aligning their duties with SHEQ requirements. Hopefully, there were no fatalities reported other than near-missess...in the process and I hope it stays that way all the time.
Chat again with you later!
Abram
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