Statement of Strategic Priorities in VET
Provided by the Tasmanian Building and Construction Industry Training Board – March 2014
The Building and Construction Industry is a high skill industry, there is no construction site job available to an untrained worker. The apprenticeship system remains the key entry point for all the skilled trades but increasingly is being seen as the first step in the training pathway. The Building and Construction Industry also relies on the VET system to deliver the training needed to maintain high skill levels, healthy and safe workplaces and to deliver the competencies essential for achieving licences in a number of fields of activity.
The strategic priority for the Building and Construction Industry is the maintenance of a VET system with the following characteristics:
Accessible
The Department of Education will be open and responsive to the needs of the Building and Construction Industry (BCI), seeking its views and supporting it to provide its input where required;
The Department of Education will maintain a strong purchaser of training, operating separately to the Registered Training Organisations, delivering training that will be open and responsive to the needs of the Building and Construction Industry (BCI);
Registered Training Organisations and in particular TASTafe will be open and responsive to the needs of the Building and Construction Industry (BCI), seeking its views and delivering training to meet its needs;
The Department of Education will support a strong, accessible, regionally diverse, responsive and flexible public provider of training;
The Department of Education will also encourage and foster a healthy network of private providers.
Flexible
The Department of Education purchasing function will be sufficiently flexible so that it can accommodate fluctuating demand for apprentices and the other training needs of the BCI from time to time;
While recognising the direct connection between work and apprentice employment levels, the system will remain vigilant to the need to maintain the training effort for future workforce needs including skills for innovation and new technology;
The Department of Education will monitor all relevant training packages to ensure that competencies being delivered are the ones that best suit the needs of the Tasmanian Industry and Tasmanian BCI employers with flexibility to meet varying needs of employers;
Supportive
The Department of Education policy makers will actively participate at the federal level to ensure relevance of both structures and training packages to the BCI in Tasmania;
The VET system will provide mentoring and support so that personal circumstances or lack of foundation skills do not become a barrier to completion;
Under Vocational Education and Training in Schools (VETiS), programs of relevant and accessible prevocational training will be provided to improve career understanding and the quality of apprenticeship applicants.
Quality
The system will assure quality provision of training and assessment supported by an audited review system and other programs to monitor the quality of all training and assessment;
Trainers and teachers will be chosen and developed to maintain and improve delivery quality, always ensuring the high value of industrial currency is recognised and is in balance with training qualifications.
At the operational level industry prioritises training in the order listed for public subsidy:
- Certificate 3 qualifications from the Resources and Infrastructure (RII) Training Package (Skills DMC) as per list 1 and from the CPC09 Construction, Plumbing and Services Training Package (CPSISC) as per list 2.
2. Certificate 4 Training courses – Builder, Building Design, Estimating, Program Management, Occupational Health and Safety
3. Any other Units of competency from the Resources and Infrastructure (RII) Training Package (Skills DMC) and from the CPC08 Construction, Plumbing and Services Training Package (CPSISC).
Certificate 2 Prevocational Training Courses
4. Diploma and Advanced Diploma Courses – Building, Building Surveying Building Design, Program Management
5. Occupational High Risk Licensing (26)
Scaffolding Basic, Scaffolding Intermediate, Scaffolding Advanced, Dogging, Rigging Basic, Rigging Intermediate, Rigging Advanced, Tower Crane, Self Erecting Tower Crane, Derrick Crane, Portal Boom Crane, Bridge and Gantry Crane, Vehicle Loading Crane, Non-Slewing Mobile Crane, Slewing Mobile Crane up to 20 tonne, Slewing Mobile Crane up to 60 tonne, Slewing Mobile Crane up to 100 tonne, Slewing Mobile Crane over 100 tonne, Boom Type Elevating Work Platform, Concrete Placing Boom, Materials Hoist, Personnel and Materials Hoist, Reach Stacker, Forklift Truck, Order Picking Forklift Truck, Boiler Standard, Boiler Advanced, Reciprocating Steam Engine Operation, Turbine Operation, Multi Tool Carrier, Container Side Lifter, Scissor Hoist / Lift, Mobile Stock Picker .
Competencies for safe removal of Asbestos:
10314NAT - Course in Asbestos Awareness
CPCCDE3014A - Remove non-friable asbestos
CPCCDE3015A - Remove friable asbestos
CPCCBC4051A - Supervise asbestos removal
CPCCBC5014A - Conduct asbestos assessment associated with removal
6. Other qualifications in Management, Human Resources or Finance
List 1
RII20713 Certificate II in Civil Construction
RII20813 Certificate II in Bituminous Surfacing
RII30813 Certificate III in Civil Construction Plant Operations
RII30913 Certificate III in Civil Construction
RII31213 Certificate III in Civil Foundations
RII31613 Certificate III in Trenchless Technology
List 2
CPC30111 / Certificate III in Bricklaying/BlocklayingCPC30211 / Certificate III in Carpentry
CPC30311 / Certificate III in Concreting
CPC30413 / Certificate III in Demolition
CPC30511 / Certificate III in Dogging
CPC30611 / Certificate III in Painting and Decorating
CPC30711 / Certificate III in Rigging
CPC30812 / Certificate III in Roof Tiling
CPC30911 / Certificate III in Scaffolding
CPC31011 / Certificate III in Solid Plastering
CPC31111 / Certificate III in Steelfixing
CPC31211 / Certificate III in Wall and Ceiling Lining
CPC31311 / Certificate III in Wall and Floor Tiling
CPC31411 / Certificate III in Construction Waterproofing
CPC31511 / Certificate III in Formwork/Falsework
CPC31611 / Certificate III in Paving
CPC31711 / Certificate III in Low Rise Structural Framing
CPC31812 / Certificate III in Shopfitting
CPC31912 / Certificate III in Joinery
CPC32011 / Certificate III in Carpentry and Joinery
CPC32111 / Certificate III in Signage
CPC32211 / Certificate III in Joinery (Stairs)
CPC32311 / Certificate III in Stonemasonry (Monumental/Installation)
CPC32412 / Certificate III in Plumbing
CPC32512 / Certificate III in Plumbing (Mechanical Services)
CPC32612 / Certificate III in Roof Plumbing
CPC32712 / Certificate III in Gas Fitting
CPC32812 / Certificate III in Fire Protection
List 3
CPC40110 / Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Building)CPC40208 / Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Contract Administration)
CPC40308 / Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Estimating)
CPC40408 / Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Sales)
CPC40508 / Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Site Management)
CPC40611 / Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Specialist Trades)
CPC40708 / Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Trade Contracting)
CPC40912 / Certificate IV in Plumbing and Services
List 4
CPC50108 / Diploma of Building SurveyingCPC50208 / Diploma of Building and Construction (Building)
CPC50308 / Diploma of Building and Construction (Management)
CPC50408 / Diploma of Plumbing and Services
CPC60108 / Advanced Diploma of Building Surveying
CPC60208 / Advanced Diploma of Building and Construction (Management)