TIMMINS – NORCAT, the Sudbury-based mining research and innovation agency, has opened a training and development centre in Timmins. The facility is set up at the Timmins campus of Collège Boréal.
NORCAT Timmins, as the facility is called, will provide programs, services and training resources that focus on such things as reducing injuries, saving lives and enhancing productivity in the workplace, said Ken Stewart, the manager of training and development for NORCAT Timmins.
Stewart said Northern College had previously established an e-learning training partnership in Timmins but he said there was a market demand to “grow the business” in Timmins.
“Certainly we will have classroom training and this will enhance their e-learning courses. We have in excess of 50 courses,” Stewart said.
NORCAT has set up two training and e-learning classrooms at the college and Stewart said he is confident that Northeastern Ontario mining operations will soon be taking advantage of the facility.
“Of course, the big thing now is simulation training. That is huge. NORCAT has a simulator in Sudbury. We can look forward to seeing either that simulator, or a stand alone simulator, come to Timmins to be used with the local mining community,” said Stewart.
The simulator can be used for training on rock bolting machines, on scooptrams, on jumbo drilling platforms and haulage trucks, he said.
“The simulator can be made site-specific to your mine,” Stewart said.
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