The Graduate Training Program at CCGI is designed to develop competent engineering geologists who can work safely and understand the technical implications of the data that they create.
In the early days of their career, graduates carry out many safety training courses, but does that make them competent? Probably not. Only by having real time experiences can the graduates test and try out their knowledge.
Our recent graduates Sapana Thapa Magar and William White have already obtained their HSG47 certification. However, its only whilst out visiting a site in Bristol that they were able to put this knowledge into practice. This site is a complicated network of underground services, traced and marked up using GPR services which allowed our graduates to determine if the sounds from the hand held CAT & Genny were indeed actual services, or one of those unknown blips! This is just one way that we help keep them and others safe on site. It is only when they have carried out this task for site investigation locations under supervision in many different locations, understanding the up to date services plans, will we consider them to be competent to carry this activity out independently.
So what about soil and rock logging? Surely you just read the appropriate standards and off you go? Have you actually considered the conceptual ground model? Are you in a cutting or on an embankment. Is that rock with poor recovery actually a rock, or has the borehole been drilled in a infilled river channel and is actual coarse gravel and cobbles? Again CCGI invest in our future. Only by receiving the formal in-house training, making the conceptual ground model, and then examining and logging the core with our Principal Engineering Geologist or Senior Engineering geologists will the graduates truly learn how to describe the materials accurately to allow safe design for our Clients.
And so it’s a warm welcome to Sapana and Will, please say hello if you meet them out on site. You can be assured that their training and experiences will have been robust.