Conference Papers | 2009 Conference Papers

NATIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES FOR THE WATER INDUSTRY

Wayne Morling, Project Manager, Government Skills Australia

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Access to training and assessment for water industry operations personnel continues to be problematic. With the introduction of national training packages, minimum industry performance standards have been developed. However, it remains difficult for industry to progress its personnel to desired levels of performance, in the absence of suitable training and assessment.

While there are approximately 20 or so, Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) who have included the water training package on their scope of registration, many of them have not developed, or do not have access to resource materials which support delivery and assessment. And generally, the organisations that have resource materials have in most instances specialized, for example, the delivery of training and assessment for the treatment stream only.