It was during the early 1980’s when we needed to hire production operators making integrated circuits after many years of not hiring. Most of the existing production operators had graduated from high school in the 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s. We've always believed in lifelong learning and indeed, our people did just that. The hiring process included interviews with supervisors as well as line operators who would have a say in hiring peers. It came as a shock to all of us how little recent high school graduates actually knew that they needed to know for the jobs we had!
It is very hard to re-educate the populace that what they know and fear about radiation is virtually all wrong. That is where the website: allaboutenergy.net comes in as a conduit and role model of education.
