This morning I held a Health and Safety training session for TONIBUNG staff on electrical safety. The work here at TONIBUNG installing renewable electricity for remote communities can involve some potentially dangerous situations with electricity. It's also important that the communities are left with a safe system which they know how to look after without endangering themselves. Although we haven't had any serious accidents, we are making an effort at the moment to try and improve health & safety in the organisation and the communities we work with. Today was one of the first activities for 2017.
Having never run a session like this I wasn't sure how it would go but I think it was a pretty successful morning - everyone got involved with the activities and we had some good discussions about the risks and responsibilities involved with the work here. I'd put the pack together based on material from a course I'd done at work, information from the internet and some feedback from the guys at Engineers Without Borders UK. With some help from our new assistant manager at TONIBUNG I added some Malay translations to the slides and we ran the session in a mixture of Malay and English (sadly my Malay hasn't developed quickly enough for me to be able to do it in Malay!). I've put the English version of the slides
here. Please get in touch if you can help improve these for next time or if you'd like a copy of the Malay/full powerpoint version.
Here are a few photos from earlier:
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| Brainstorming the risks in the workshop, when we commission systems, and in communities |
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| The team who participated in the training session |
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| The theory |
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| It was good to get the younger guys working with the more experienced staff |
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