Matt Birch Work Experience Blog Entry #1

As mentioned last week, this week Matt Birch will be part of the C&D team shadowing John, attending meetings with Margaret, visiting site with Les and auditing with Roland & Craig so that he gets a real feel of life in a demolition consultancy. One of Matt's jobs this week will be to write his own blog posts on this site detailing what he has been doing, here's the first entry:

Just finished my first day with C&D. Today was all office based tasks including reading on site documents to get a proper look into what it is like to work in the industry. Due to C&D being a private business, we have to do all the usual office jobs ourselves so I spent part of the morning sorting out certificates for courses which members of other companies have sat through. I have also been taught about business financing regarding bank transactions.

Perhaps the most important part of today was the reading of the site material. This included the methodology document for the demolition to be undertaken which included COSHH, Health and Safety reports and Site Audits. This means that when I go out on site later on in the week I can better appreciate and understand what is going on, why certain things are happening and the method in which the workers are operating as well as being able to spot health and safety risks which I may not have seen before.

Check back tomorrow for the next entry!