Welcome back to Mining Man's newsletter. This week we look at the three questions you should ask yourself before giving feedback, and cover some tips on how to get more done in your day. Our safety topic looks at live testing of equipment, and we present our first ever website review of a new online mining training program.

Three Pre-start Checks for your Feedback

My first experience giving corrective feedback did not end well. It was just two days after a course where I’d been shown the five step process for giving feedback, and told that giving feedback quickly was important. I was on the second floor of the plant, and I watched in disbelief as an operator backed his truck straight into a handrail (bending and destroying it), got out to see what had happened, and then simply drove off.
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Smartminer Online Training Review

If the name alone wasn’t enough to get me interested, the concept behind Runge’s new “Smartminer” online training program certainly had me intrigued. Here's my thoughts and review of the Smartminer training program.

Live Testing - This Week's Safety Topic

Inspecting, testing or commissioning live equipment is an unavoidable high risk activity. This week's safety topic looks at the controls which should be in place for safe live testing.

How Priorities Can Prevent Procrastination

You get 17 out of 20 jobs on your "To Do" list done today, but the three you carry over to tomorrow are the most important ones? Today's advice will help solve that.

Stay tuned next week as we have a huge announcement about a project that we need your help with. We're going to creating the "world's biggest" something! - Cheers, have a safe week. Jamie.

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Issue 8 - April 20, 2011

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