I was recently asked to deliver an Electrical Awareness course at a company that had just had some new equipment delivered ready for commissioning. It turned out to be a great opportunity to combine theory and practice in a real work context. I was able to flex the course so that we could relate elements of it to the equipment, working out how cables might run and what connected in what order to…
It may seem obvious that staff will take ownership of their work and how the care and quality of what they do may effect their colleagues and their employer; not to mention their own safety. Seemingly for many it is not. My experience of delivering training in electrical awareness to a wide range of businesses and attendees has shown me that the instinctive default setting is to do whatever they…
We recently worked with a major British technology company who produce, amongst other high tech kit, parts for the Particle Accelerator at CERN. We were training in electrical awareness software engineers with PHDs in physics. When your day to day focus is working in the world of the barely comprehensible the practicalities of basic electrical practice can be overlooked. This is our experience in…
