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Newsletter Vol 10 - September 2006
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The 2nd RIISC National Conference was held in Sydney on the 23 August. The theme was Grow and Maintain your Workforce and was well attended by industry delegates representing all RIISC sectors, from across Australia and New Zealand. A diverse array of high level industry and special topic speakers provided the assembled delegates with significant food for thought.
The presentation topics were wide ranging, including a strategic outlook for an industry sector, statistical analyses of workforce demographics, maintenance of our skills base, attraction of non-traditional sections of the population into our sectors, an insight into initiatives to grow and maintain a workforce in NZ, a case study on the implementation of industry related training and the motivation of a national workforce from all walks of life.
The question and answer sessions provided the delegates with an opportunity to extract further relevant information from the speakers, all of whom responded well to the queries.
Feedback has been very positive and we are maintaining the theme for the 3rd National Conference to be held in Sydney on 22 August 2007.
A copy of the presentations can be viewed on our web site: Presentations>>
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RIISC initiatives.
RIISC is pleased to advise initiatives already taken in response to issues which are now in the forefront of discussions at COAG level, as detailed in the linked Media Release – Media release>>
With regard to the items raised in the above Media Release, we are pleased to advise our members that we have taken the following steps, all of which are either complete or nearing completion: |
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1. Developed a Certificate I in Resources and Infrastructure Operations which is aimed at attracting new entrants into our industry sectors. Read more>> |
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2. Developed a Certificate II in Mining for Indigenous Entry Level Workers. This qualification includes LL&N components to assist Indigenous entrants and is endorsed in WA as a traineeship. Read more>> |
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3. Consulted widely with our industry sectors to elicit their education and training needs, many of which are taken up in the Training Package continuous improvement programme.
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4. Developed a set of Implementation Tools to attend to the needs of current workers in our industry sectors and designed to assist companies to address their skills needs and by so doing, improve employee and organisational performance through increased uptake of industry skills. Read more>>
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5. Developing a timely and industry sector Workforce Planning Project. This project will relate specifically to RIISC industry sectors and will act as a workforce planning tool for our industries. Read more>> |
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Project Update.
In the past year, RIISC has continued its commitment to its industry sectors and its contractual obligations to the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). We are pleased to have this opportunity to advise our stakeholders of the progress we have made on activities for the interest of our five industry sectors. Read more>> |
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