Our SHEQ rep probably wouldn’t have noticed it. 
Quality safety officers are rooster teeth in mining, and they are so inundated with govt paperwork exercises that the actual safety suffers for it.
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My dad is going into forced retirement soon. If you need a consultant? 
#JustSaying
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Since I’m commenting so much, I figured I should submit a pic as well.
Our site is changing owners this week. The mine I work at was sold by its JSE top 40 owners to a smaller mining group.
The new owners were supposed to start on 1 Sept, but due to a Dept. of Mineral Resources bureaucratic stuffaround, it’s moved to 3 Sept. On 31 Aug we were informed by IT that we should backup all our email and server contents “just in case” by 1 Sept… 
So I still have access, still copying things off today. I don’t use Outlook’s desktop app, as it’s terrible, but the web portal doesn’t have an export function… so I need to sync up Outlook with 4 years worth of mail, and then backup that resulting monstrosity of a PST.
@Beo: Once the dust settles, I’ll let you know! 
What geographic area is your dad?
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KZN specifically, travels between North coast and Durban North currently, but does move around for work as well. Ocassionally Cape Town, JHB and Eastern Cape.
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I’m in MP, but I’ve got a contact that is starting a contract in KZN soon. I’ll send him a msg 
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Ha! You guys remembered!
Thanks, yeah, we have a full time OHS lady on site and she is both hated and respected. She is unforgiving and shouts at the guys like a mom, but some of the OHS rules are simply impractical. BUT, we comply anyway.
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That’s when you know a system is working
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I’m winning!
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I’m surprised you have so many people sitting in such close proximity to one another.
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This is where I say, “Back in my day” 
we only had a notebook with shitty government green pencils.
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As a UXer it surprises me to see all these laptops (which have note taking capabilities) but everyone still reverts to traditional pen and paper.
Sorry, I just find that fascinating.
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And here I was surprised to see the classic green blackboard.
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So am I to be honest. They’re all masked throughout sessions, most are at least one shot vaccinated, do the temperature testing thing and sanitising everything, and stick to their class bubbles during breaks. But yeah. Bunch of virus vectors that I stay well away from, mask on for the duration of our sessions together. Surprisingly, there’s been only a handful of (relatively mild) cases on campus.
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For me its a case of beter info retention, I write notes physically, then typed them up for my studies.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying they should rather use their digital counterpart. I find it fascincating becuase no matter how hard we try to digitise things, people will still and prefer to resort to “primitive methods”—pen/pencil and paper in this case.
I love seing examples of this and love trying to solve the problem. Like I said, fascinating.
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Ironically I write faster than I type, so that is why I prefer the note taking first. I would switch to a tablet that can record my hand writing and translate it to a typed version, but the issue is that they cant translate my scribbles
On top of that, they have access to all my PPoint slides, PDF summaries of lectures, and extra resources through their online student portal. I try every year to wean them off paper-based note taking. And every year I fail. But like @Wyvern says, most of them say they learn better if they write stuff down themselves.
They wanted to replace them with all whiteboards, but the Finance and Accounting lecturers complained. Frikken old school stuff. So now every classroom has both.
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Keep in mind I am one of those who needs to translate a lecturers words into something that makes sense to me.
Plus I have a weird shorthand - no one could borrow my notes until the next day when I typed them up
When I was studying in the stone ages, I preferred printing out the PDF summaries and annotating them. If I had a tablet available to do that on, I’m pretty sure that’s what I would choose. Even now I’m considering getting myself a pen compatible with my Samsung tablet for annotating papers and textbook I go though.
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