Mining industry embraces elearning to address consistency issues

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Mining industry embracese-learning to
addressconsistency issues
Wayne Panagis Lesley Wemyss BHP Billiton
Lesley Wemyss Training Consultancy

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Lesley Wemyss Training Consultancy Partner
registered training organisation andproject
manager
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Industry engagement in VTE e-learning tools
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Business drivers

• An area of skills in the complex industries and
  with high
• safety risks are the competencies in Working at
  Heights,
• Working in Confined Space, and SCBA/Longline.
• Currently these courses are labour intensive, and
  there are many hours needed to provide face to
  face programs
• No real tools for use in RPL within or across
  sites, or companies
• No tools for development of underpinning
  knowledge/cognitive skills or a system that
  identifies the need for refreshment.
• Each site let alone business has different
  courses, with different content, that are
  delivered to meet these skills needs over
  different periods of timeno consistency.

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How has the industry benefited from this project?

• This project has taken a whole of industry
  approach, consultation and trials have been run
  extensively throughout the complex sectors to get
  the model right before development!
• The outcome is a blended delivery solution that
  is quite revolutionary for the industry sector.
• This project has produced a model for delivery
  that can be used for many other applications
• An e-learning tool for use in assessing
  underpinning knowledge, cognitive skills and
  even as a challenge test!
• A process for determining the need for
  refreshment of skills using a risk based
  assessment.
• Consistency across the sector in delivery of
  competencies, and a starting point for the
  delivery of site specific competencies.

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The future of e-learning in this industry

• In a time of massive skills shortages in the
  complex industries, we have to think of smarter
  solutions to meet the many training demands of
  industry.
• Traditional face to face training is a luxury
  that industry wont be able to always afford.
• Blended e-learning models are the way of the
  future, as they can satisfy many of the diverse
  requirements of the both the learner and the
  employer in a flexible, time efficient manner.