OPERATION VULCAN 6: Analytical training and the use of training rigs developments in the 1940's & '50's

In Vulcan 5 I wrote about the early days of analytical training with particular reference to events in Britain where it was first applied on any appreciable scale. I made the point that the idea of analysing the job and its component tasks, prior to devising a training programme, simple and essential though this may seem to today's trainer, was revolutionary in the early 1940s. These were the days when training was just beginning to be recognised as something quite distinct from education. The only form of analysis which was applied to work tasks at that time was work study and so it was inevitable that the early attempts at analysis of work tasks for training purposes should make use of existing method study techniques. Those trainers who specialised in this experimental form of training analysis had, mostly, themselves been method study practitioners for at least some part of their previous working lives.