Helping new starters succeed
WHY do so many new starters in mining fail? It’s not like this is a new problem, with three in five new starters failing in the first six months being a long-term industry average. It was going on when I first started underground in 1994 and continues today. Every time we hit an upswing and have to hire new starters, and there are always issues retaining them. To be fair to the employers, they have over the years (and continue to) spent large amounts of time and money to address this problem – but with limited success. Underground Training was founded by a group of Western Australian shift bosses in 2009 who were frustrated by the high turnover of the...