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Towards Improvement

Towards Improvement. Idaho Timber Workforce Development Summit By Dr. John J. Garland, PE Project Leader Garland & Associates garlandp@peak.org. Towards Improvement. Maintain knowledge in aging workforce Address stability issue – forestry is a changing industry not a dying industry

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Towards Improvement

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  1. Towards Improvement Idaho Timber Workforce Development Summit By Dr. John J. Garland, PE Project Leader Garland & Associates garlandp@peak.org

  2. Towards Improvement Maintain knowledge in aging workforce Address stability issue – forestry is a changing industry not a dying industry Set up structure to make improvements—Idaho Action Planning Committee Find permanent funding source Involve individual workers Emphasize technology High school counselors? Consider paid summer camp Review training • Consider workers compensation offset • Work with state labor economists • Image and media (tv, radio, web) approaches • Work design for a new generation • Engage a task force to look at the issue of “season length” • Consider more detailed interviews with young • What are options for providing “benefits” (health insurance, retirement plan, etc.) • Discussion of who are the “players” in workforce issues

  3. Maintain knowledge in aging workforce

  4. Maintain knowledge in aging workforce • Job redesign to accommodate older workers • Use logging technologies to reduce workloads • Differential pay for older workers—different working conditions in mills • Capture knowledge with mentoring programs • Specific training responsibility w/pay • Engage older workers for preferences, options, • Part-time, flex-time, job-share, ????

  5. Address stability issue • Perception and negatives • Dying & declining, • Mills shut down, “going out of business” • Mature & sunset industry, • Old economy, “Survivor” mode • US doesn’t need to cut its trees • Other industry sectors don’t get same treatment, eg High tech bubble, real estate, Chips & Change,

  6. Address stability issue • Forestry sector is a changing sector—always has been change • International, national and regional significance of Idaho forestry sector • New emerging products of renewable resource—energy, fuel, local production/consumption, technologies • Story has yet to be adequately told !

  7. Set up structure to make improvements—Idaho Action Planning Committee • No apparent organization for Idaho Workforce • Coalition is needed among subsectors for common workforce • Consensus needed in Idaho’s efforts-speak with one voice • Concentrate resources & seek support • Collaborate with others in PNW • Coordinate with national efforts • Communicate broadly inc. internationally • Governor’s commission for action, reporting, & communication ???

  8. Find permanent funding source • Short & longer term sources • Industry grants, foundation grants, special funds, lottery funds • State workforce development funds, including federal programs • Idaho Forest Products Commission • Others? • Pay for Services? Training, recruiting, etc. • Self assessments, tax policies, • Brutal news– We’re on our own in short term!

  9. Find permanent funding sourceA compulsory assessment of cents per hour ?

  10. Involve individual workers • Seek worker participation • Committed workers as communicators: FLOW project • Trajectory of development for individuals, self investment concepts, better decisions, • Concept of a career ladder and counseling in the firm

  11. Involve individual workers

  12. supervisors providing employee career planning and guidance

  13. Emphasize technology GPS, GIS, PLC, CTI, MECHATRONICS

  14. Pilot speaks out…. It’s often claimed that a harvester operator makes more decisions per unit of time than an aircraft pilot. “Definitely. A harvester and an airplane also have more similarities than you’d first think,” says pilot and former harvester operator Patrik Gustavsson (Valmet, Just Forest, 1-2007)

  15. High school counselors? • 15 best to start with the High School Guidance Counselors--consistent w/ numerical responses • 5 responses indicating the need to get to kids earlier. • 4 for Vocational education at high school and community college • 2 would start with future foresters in Univ. • Simulators & bring equipment to schools

  16. Career Paths

  17. High school counselors?

  18. Establishing forestry sector scholarships for worker training?

  19. Consider paid summer camp Construction industry has had a program with some success. Forestry camps in use but not for logging, mills, trucking, or forestry services

  20. Review training • On the job training • Shadowing/Mentoring • Vo-Tech • Classroom • Computer based • Can't scream at them; talk/explain way you would like to learn; screaming at them doesn't work

  21. Review Training:Establishing targeted vocation education programs in local community colleges or institutions?

  22. Re-think Training

  23. Consider workers compensation offset Workers in training not exposed to operating hazards would be eligible for reduced WC rates

  24. Work with State Labor Economists Develop relationship to support forestry sector job understanding and information for rural communities

  25. Image and media approaches:Producing television ads

  26. Image and media approaches:Getting all the sawmills involved in a recruiting effort

  27. Work Design for a new generation:payment method that pays for qualifications of workers

  28. Work Design for a new generation • Review jobs that are evolutionary and not balanced to workers • Look at part-time, flex time, work release time, job-share, job rotation, pay for production, etc. • Consider profit sharing, incentives, pay for competency, etc. • Consider scheduling: monthly, weekly, & daily

  29. Engage a task force to look at the issue of “season length”

  30. Consider more detailed interviews with young Current employees Job leavers Potential employees Competitors employees Students

  31. Options for providing “benefits” (health insurance, retirement plan, etc.)firms’ response

  32. Who are the players in workforce issues: Idaho (examples) • The “Group:” ALC, IFA, IFPC • Idaho Department of Labor • Safety & Health Organizations (insurers, etc) • Vocational programs • High School counselors/teachers • Univ. of Idaho, Extension, N. Idaho College • Equipment industry, • Etc.

  33. Who are the players in workforce issues: Region • Regional logging conferences: Intermountain, OR, Olympic, Redwood, Sierra • OR Forest Resources Institute • Pacific Logging Congress • Industry associations: AOL, OLTPA, WA LC, CA Commission, SFI Training Comm. etc • State Labor Depts & OSHA Depts • OSU, U. WA PNASH,

  34. Who are the players in workforce issues: National & International • A. Loggers Council, Forest Resources Assn., AF&PA, SFI, SAF?, NWLOA, • NIOSH, Dept of Labor, Fed OSHA?, Extension, Equipment Manuf. Assn., COFE, US Endowment, • Selected Univs.:GA, SC, AL,MN,LA,ME • Intl Contractor Assn., ILO, FAO, IUFRO, Scandinavians, Chileans, Aus/NZ, Austrians, French, Great Britain, Irish,

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