Director, Learning & Development

Training in a manufacturing environment during COVID-19

I am starting this discussion for a selfish reason. I want to find out what everyone else is doing to deliver hands-on training/ knowledge in our current environment that limits exposure to interaction. I would like to share things that work and are immediately deliverable.

I have a few simple questions to start:

What techniques are you using on the manufacturing floor while staying within CDC Guidelines?

Have you learned any new delivery methods that have worked and are not standard Trainer/ Trainee methods that have been shortened to stay within CDC guidelines?

How have you implemented any of this training and knowledge sharing? For instance, who is delivering it? You? A Subject Matter Expert? Why have you chosen that person/ position?

I look forward to hearing from you!

2 Comments

Janelle Frizzell

May 15, 2020 12:43 PM

We have put up clear partitions on the lines. This allows the trainer to still see and correct what the trainee is doing while maintaining social distance. There will be brief moments where they will have to stand a bit closer, but, we try to limit that. The lines are also running slower, which helps.
We are still doing an in-person orientation, just shorted the hours and the number of people that can be in the room at once.

Brian Noecker

May 19, 2020 03:33 PM

Thank you, Janelle! We, too, are employing plexiglass to create a physical barrier. Where not practical we are going to be using face shields for positions that don't already use respirators (our respirators already had a higher rate of protection than N-95 masks.)
I have begun looking for on the floor, wireless Trainer to Trainee communications. We'll see if that has potential or the cost to benefit ratio is too high.
How did you find time gains from Orientation?

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