Thursday, 24th Nov 2016 (8am - 5pm)
At 8 a.m., I met my colleague, Jaclyn Yee in the office. She had been working in this department for four months.
At 9.15am I followed Jaclyn to attend the routine meeting in the boiler control room. In this room, various performance graphs of power consumption are displayed on the wall. The on-duty operators from each section were gathered and reported the feedback to Tee. The meeting lasted 10 minutes.
At 10.00 a.m., I went to the WWTP control room and met the on-duty operator, Mr. Vasu. He shared the process flow chart of existing WWTP and explained each process. Suddenly one alarm was triggered and he pressed a button to switch off the alarm. He told me there was a case when there was a high level in the balance tank due to incoming industrial effluent from the production plant, however, it was considerably accepted.
At 3 p.m., I went to the control room again. This time Mr. Ridzuan was
on duty. He had shared his knowledge about the WWTP operation. I took
this opportunity to understand the daily tasks carried out by the WWTP operators.
Friday, 25th Nov 2016 (8am - 5pm)
At 9.15 a.m., I attended the routine meeting in the boiler control room. Before the meeting, there is a tradition of making a swear, ‘Safety begins with me’ by all attendees. As usual, the on-duty operators from each section gave feedback to Tee. The meeting lasted 10 minutes.
At 3 p.m., Ridzuan brought me around WWTP while collecting the samples from the final discharge point, DAF inlet and outlet, etc. Next, he conducted the laboratory test using these samples to check the water characteristics such as pH, colour and chemical oxygen demand (COD), etc.
I was taking this opportunity to observe the procedure of testing
samples. He willingly explained the details of these procedures. He
explained that these are routine tasks to be carried out by operators and
several water parameters must be recorded for further reference.
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| Inside the laboratory (photo taken on the same day) |
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