CMDS is designed to provide a comprehensive competency-based approach to training by measuring and tracking worker competence and by providing relevant job-specific training.
CMDS is online and accessible 24/7 from any web-enabled device.
Worker self-assessment and validation data is audited by industry Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and can be used to satisfy certification requirements at Lakeland College in Alberta and Northern Lights College in BC.
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Workers are assigned a job profile (e.g. Field Operator, Gas Plant Operator, Gas Plant Electrician, Pipeline Operator), which includes generic and site-specific competencies assigned to one or more validators. Each competency identifies the knowledge and skills required for a particular job function, as defined by industry SMEs and training consultants. Training resources can be attached to the competencies being measured, and mandatory e-learning modules can be assigned to individual workers. Validation of competency self-assessments is done by a validator, who agrees or disagrees with a worker's self-assessment.
CMDS is designed to provide a comprehensive competency-based approach to ensure employees and contractors understand their specific job requirements and provide a credible record of achieved knowledge and skills.
Competencies are developed by workers in industry to reflect the work they do within their facility. Because it is experienced workers who develop these competencies, it ensures they are relevant and acceptable to the workplace.
Currently the system serves about 5,000 employees and contractors across Canada, in nearly 100 major energy companies – including several multinationals. The program has been accepted by several post-secondary institutions, with Certificate and Diploma development led by Lakeland College.
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Scheduled Maintenance Updates
Each night the CMDS database server runs a variety of system-level maintenance tasks. This is the window of time during which it performs backups and routine updates to its own internal indexes and statistics.
Currently, the system is not off-line during this period of time, and it does not need to be taken off-line, but occasionally it requires about 15 minutes to do everything it needs to do, and if one of our users happens to be working in the system at that time, then they can encounter a timeout error in their browser. By default, browsers don’t like to wait more than about 2 minutes for a response from a server.
To prevent the possibility of any of our users encountering an error, on a point-forward we configuring CMDS to take itself off-line from 3:00 AM to 3:30 AM every night, so the server has time to do its routine nightly maintenance.
Note: We ran a query to count the number of people who sign in during each hour of the day over the past year. The results showed that CMDS has the least amount of activity between 3:00 and 3:30 AM Mountain Time.
In the future, if you happen to sign in during this 30-minute window, the system will display a maintenance notice as a reminder.