FITUG e.V.
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United States Patent 5,851,117 Alsheimer, et al.
Building block training systems and training methods
Abstract
A building block training system and method of training of cleaners of facilities to be used on the job which utilizes a plurality of pictorial displays showing a specific set of steps to accomplish a cleaning operation in an efficient safe manner, e.g., dusting or vacuuming of a facility as well as a plurality of pictorial displays as to what must not be missed and must be avoided in performing the cleaning operation.
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Claims:
1. A method of a trainer teaching a cleaner, the method comprising:
(a) providing a training system for use in on the job training of worker whose job functions include the cleaning of a facility, the training system comprising a plurality of sections, each training system section containing instructions for cleaning a typical facility, each training system section limited in instructions to a specific physical job function to be performed in the facility, and each training system section containing illustrations of what is to be done and illustrations of what is not to be skipped and what is to be avoided in performing the cleaning job functions;
(b) in the facility, the trainer showing the cleaner a document of a section of the training system, the document pictorially indicating what the cleaner is to do in each step of a specific job function;
(c) the trainer telling the cleaner about each step pictorially depicted in the document;
(d) the trainer showing the cleaner how to perform each step pictorially depicted in the document; and
(e) the trainer having the cleaner perform the step in the presence of the trainer while the trainer coaches and the trainer having the cleaner tell the trainer about the step while referring to the document.
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