Towards Improvement Towards Improvement Idaho Timber Idaho Timber Workforce Workforce Development Summit Development Summit By By Dr. John J. Garland, PE Dr. John J. Garland, PE Project Leader Project Leader Garland & Associates Garland & Associates [email protected][email protected]
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Towards ImprovementTowards Improvement
Idaho Timber Workforce Idaho Timber Workforce Development SummitDevelopment Summit
Towards Improvement 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
Maintain knowledge in aging Maintain knowledge in aging workforceworkforce
Maintain knowledge in aging Maintain knowledge in aging workforceworkforce
• 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, ????
Address stability issueAddress 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,
Address stability issueAddress 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 !
Set up structure to make Set up structure to make improvements—Idaho Action Planning improvements—Idaho Action Planning
CommitteeCommittee• 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, &
• 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
Involve individual workersInvolve individual workersTRAJECTORIES OF INDIVIDUALS
WORKER LIMITED BY….
TYPICAL WORKER IN DEV. COUNTRY
HIGH PERFORMANCE WORKER
A
B
C
supervisors providing employee career supervisors providing employee career
planning and guidanceplanning and guidance Sample Size Logging Mill
56 16 13
Strongly Oppose=1
2 0 1
Oppose=2 4 1 1
Neutral=3 11 4 2
Support=4 28 9 7
Strongly Support=5
11 2 2
Emphasize technologyEmphasize technology
GPS, GIS, PLC, CTI, MECHATRONICS
Pilot speaks out….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)
High school counselors?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
Career PathsCareer Paths
High school counselors?High school counselors?Sample
SizeLogging Mill Trucking
Forestry Services
57 16 13 3 4
Strongly Oppose=
11 0 0 0 1
Oppose=2
1 0 1 0 0
Neutral=3
3 2 0 0 0
Support=4
23 7 8 1 1
Strongly Support=
529 7 4 2 2
Establishing forestry sector Establishing forestry sector scholarships for worker training?scholarships for worker training?
Construction industry has had a Construction industry has had a program with some success. Forestry program with some success. Forestry camps in use but not for logging, mills, camps in use but not for logging, mills, trucking, or forestry servicestrucking, or forestry services
Review trainingReview 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
Review Training:Review Training:Establishing targeted vocation education programs in local community Establishing targeted vocation education programs in local community
colleges or institutions?colleges or institutions?
Cumulative Training Gains in DollarsHarvestor Example
Cumulative difference curvewith value of production gain
Effect of Operator Training: Mechanized Operations
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Designed Training
Trial and Error Learning
Consider workers Consider workers compensation offsetcompensation offsetWorkers in training not exposed to Workers in training not exposed to operating hazards would be operating hazards would be eligible for reduced WC rateseligible for reduced WC rates
Work with State Labor Work with State Labor Economists Economists
Develop relationship to support forestry Develop relationship to support forestry sector job understanding and sector job understanding and information for rural communitiesinformation for rural communities
Image and media approaches:Image and media approaches:Producing television ads Producing television ads
Image and media approaches:Image and media approaches:Getting all the sawmills involved in a recruiting effortGetting all the sawmills involved in a recruiting effort
Work Design for a new generation:Work Design for a new generation:payment method that pays for qualifications of workerspayment method that pays for qualifications of workers
Sample Size Logging Mill
57 16 13
Strongly Oppose=1
1 3 1 0
Oppose=2 2 5 1 1
Neutral=3 3 9 3 3
Support=4 4 17 4 4
Strongly Support=5
5 23 7 5
Work Design for a new generationWork 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
Engage a task force to look at the Engage a task force to look at the issue of “season length”issue of “season length”
Sample Size Logging Mill Forestry Services
46 16 7 3
Strongly Oppose=1
1 0 0 1
Oppose=2 3 1 2 0
Neutral=3 7 0 1 0
Support=4 11 2 3 0
Strongly Support=5
24 13 1 2
Consider more detailed Consider more detailed interviews with younginterviews with young• Current employeesCurrent employees• Job leaversJob leavers• Potential employeesPotential employees• Competitors employeesCompetitors employees• StudentsStudents
Options for providing “benefits” (health Options for providing “benefits” (health insurance, retirement plan, etc.)insurance, retirement plan, etc.)
Who are the players in workforce Who are the players in workforce issues: Idaho (examples)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.
Who are the players in workforce Who are the players in workforce issues: Regionissues: 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,
Who are the players in workforce Who are the players in workforce issues: National & Internationalissues: National & International