The second week has been just as interesting as the first. I've been helping prepare an audit analysis tool for a whole bunch of audits that the company has done for a major corporation - all those Excel skills I've picked up along the way seem to be paying off finally! - and today and tomorrow I'm sitting in on a Stage 1 H&S Reps course. I am actually doing the unit standards (the NZQA assessment) as I haven't done it before officially although I've covered off all the material in various other courses, but the main reason I'm there is because I'd like to teach that course and I need to see how our trainers present it.
My colleague who is presenting is a superb trainer and has a fund of really interesting stories (which I'm furiously making notes on - I've got some of my own but it's always useful to have some more!). One of the things we looked at today was the Cave Creek disaster and how systematic failures in H&S contributed to it (eg nailing the wooden platform into the concrete pad, rather than bolting it in; not having the plans for the viewing platform approved by an engineer, etc).
Apart from that, ballet has started again and our teacher put us through our paces last night, finishing with a tricky series of big jumps that I managed better than I expected (certainly better than the pirouettes that preceeded them!) which left us all panting. But it was good to get some serious exercise in.
Pachyderm.
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