Flue gas analysis to high

[JayDee]

my old company owned its own college, a blind man would pass if he worked for them. Infact i never failed

Hahaha


I am sooo glad to be out of that stupid 'pass em all' culture.

I do appreciate the fact that people coming into the industry need time and encouragement to become experienced. It is a responsibility of any gas engineer to be continually learning. It's the nature of our industry, it's always changing, and that is why it's such a great job.

Just think, it was only 20 odd years ago when we were all sticking gravity circs in and open flue boilers were common. Ohh the pace of change!...............Progress?...........I wonder.............!

 

[JayDee]

Quote, Dontknowitall - Experience is great though, and when you're new it's a steep learning curve. Not that fair on your customers though!


The reason for the steep learning curve is, as you've pointed out, it's skimmed over in training. The training has no real depth, so course designer daren't cover fault finding in detail.

Just take a logical approach with diagnostics. It's just a simple firing order. The more you do, the more you will learn.

Don't forget.................We are not putting rockets on the moon, we just fixing gas appliances!!

 

[arran197]

my old company owned its own college, a blind man would pass if he worked for them. Infact i never failed

Was this company based in Gornal by any chance?

 

[stevetheplumber]

Finally, I stand by statment on the poor standard of training generally. They teach you how to answer the exam questions not how to work in the real world. My recent revist to college showed me things hadn't improved since the last time I was there.[/QUOTE]
i agree with this whole heartedly training is there for the benifit of the trainers its got very little to do with safety just getting the people through the course
once every 4 years is ridiculus especially as your doing the whole thing again due to changes in the wordings mostly
id rather a days refresher every 9 months to bring experienced ops up to date

 

[gasmarc]

Likewise Steve I am in the process of doing mine again this week and next:sleep1: