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DaveDCB

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It's about time jcb started fitting a decent drain plug in their sumps.
He's spent a few a quid on lights 🙉
Every jcb machine has a different bloody sump plug on it, some of ours has the fancy no spill tube and some are just tiny sumps plugs then the kubotas have huge monster plugs! 🤷‍♂️
 
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Flatout

New member
Hi all, I am new to the forum.
Apologies if this is not in the right category but this could be a new tool albeit a digital one. Would love to hear your expert opinions...

site-lingo.com

I am working for a construction company in Sweden and we often hear the following claim from various countries.
  • Good heavy equipment operators/drivers are hard to find and harder to keep!
  • There are not enough highly competent (even mediocre) operators out there.
  • Operators move from company to company more for competitive pay
  • Employing operators that don't have command of the local language is on the rise.

The idea is that this tool is for:
For supervisors/foremen or managers overseeing a high turnover of operators. Who need to feel confident operational directives are understood.
This tool will seamlessly create and communicate the vital message your operators need, in their native language, in just a few clicks.

I’d really appreciate your input or feedback, if you could spare the time.
 
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JD450A

JD450A

Feral as Fk 🐾
Hi all, I am new to the forum.
Apologies if this is not in the right category but this could be a new tool albeit a digital one. Would love to hear your expert opinions...

site-lingo.com

I am working for a construction company in Sweden and we often hear the following claim from various countries.
  • Good heavy equipment operators/drivers are hard to find and harder to keep!
  • There are not enough highly competent (even mediocre) operators out there.
  • Operators move from company to company more for competitive pay
  • Employing operators that don't have command of the local language is on the rise.

The idea is that this tool is for:
For supervisors/foremen or managers overseeing repetitive driver or staff replacement. Who need to feel confident operational directives are understood.
This tool will seamlessly create and communicate the vital message your operators need, in their native language, in just a few clicks.

I’d really appreciate your input or feedback, if you could spare the time.
So your creating some kind of firearm?
 
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Flatout

New member
:):) are you referring to, "repetitive driver or staff replacement"? Ok I changed it.:)

Were you able to access the url? site-lingo.com?
Any thoughts?
 
JD450A

JD450A

Feral as Fk 🐾
Unfortunately Google translate.
Kumuha ng 20 milimetro mula sa lupa at ihakot ang lupa sa tambakan
 
JD450A

JD450A

Feral as Fk 🐾
Sorry JD450A, I don't follow.
I can do exactly what you want to do on Google translate.

Better still I can translate foreign language text I don't know, automatically discover what language it's in and the English translation
 
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Flatout

New member
Fair enough. Well thanks a million for replying at least, I do appreciate it.

I guessed "we already have this - see google" was coming :)

The idea was to have a tool where a site/plant hire company can log all of their safety documentation, risk assessments, maps, videos and verbal instructions and visualize which operators have read and been tested to check they have understood all of the directions. Plus, for new staff they can send a "Playback" of the material rather than spending half their time answering the same old questions for new staff.

The language translation part is a, "by the way, it can be translated"

Google will give you a lot of info, no question but to get the exact info the site manager needs it will take a lot of collection and fixing.
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

Well-known member
Fair enough. Well thanks a million for replying at least, I do appreciate it.

I guessed "we already have this - see google" was coming :)

The idea was to have a tool where a site/plant hire company can log all of their safety documentation, risk assessments, maps, videos and verbal instructions and visualize which operators have read and been tested to check they have understood all of the directions. Plus, for new staff they can send a "Playback" of the material rather than spending half their time answering the same old questions for new staff.

The language translation part is a, "by the way, it can be translated"

Google will give you a lot of info, no question but to get the exact info the site manager needs it will take a lot of collection and fixing.
Already exists I'm afraid our company health and safety portal has all that and more
 
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Flatout

New member
Already exists I'm afraid our company health and safety portal has all that and more
Ah wow, brilliant insight. Would you be willing to share the company name/product name so I can refer to it? Would you PM me?
 
JD450A

JD450A

Feral as Fk 🐾
Google will give you a lot of info, no question but to get the exact info the site manager needs it will take a lot of collection and fixing.
Here's the issue.

The reputable companies that want staff to be safe, literate and understand the speil will either already have a system, or better yet not be using staff who don't understand the lingo.

The disreputable ones won't care.
 
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Flatout

New member
The second point I agree.
The first point? You might well be spot on, this is why I am reaching out, to get more experienced options.

Based on construction companies interviewed in Sweden and some plant hire companies in UK, heavy equipment operators, good ones, are increasingly hard to find. So for example ADT drivers, are coming from job agencies (Big shock to me when I heard it) and more and more of them are coming from eastern Europe. So site managers/foremen are spending more time not holding hands than actually getting down to business. So this tool is to help site managers with the repetitive task of delivering the same "Speil" to new drivers.

I don't know, just challenging you to understand more from a UK perspective. (From a Swedish point of view, the demand of ,even, mediocre operators is higher than supply)
 
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