Overview
A tight ship is a happy ship. This site supervisor (on the right) gets on well with his operators, but is also a stickler for doing the job properly. Everyone on-site respects him for it, because they always know exactly where they stand. So there's no 'close-enough-is-good-enough' attitude here, because the workers know they would never get away with it.
Forest workers have a wide range of documents to guide their activities. These include harvesting plans, site safety plans, codes of practice, organisational policies and work procedures. To be effective, these documents must be used to support all decision making and workplace activities.
As a site supervisor or manager, one of your jobs is to monitor the workers and contractors on-site and make sure that they are carrying out their duties in accordance with all requirements. Daily toolbox talks and regular monitoring and review of their activities are essential. You are the eyes and ears of your organisation.
It is likely that you'll also have responsibility not only for site productivity but also ensuring that output quality meets specified standards.
How do you monitor an operation to ensure it remains compliant and performs at the level expected? In this section, we'll look at a range of methods to monitor the site's activities and discuss their relevance to particular types of work.
Completing this section
The assignment for this section will help you to identify the formal documents you need to be familiar with in your day-to-day work. It is also designed to help you highlight some of the problems you need to be on the lookout for while you are monitoring the operation's activities.
Have a look at the assignment now to see what you'll need to do to complete it.
Also in the menu bar is a link to the lesson for this section: Monitoring techniques. This will provide background information on the main topics relevant to the assignment.
There is also a case study showing the activity that Joe, a harvesting supervisor, has chosen as his topic for the assignment.