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62.2.
The industry recognised “MPQC plant operator training and assessment scheme”
including over 50 items of individual plant.
62.3.
Instructional technique courses in order to become accredited instructors within the
MPQC Plant Operator Scheme.
62.4.
JAUPT approved centre able to offer a range of driver CPC training. In particular the
industry endorsed “Driver Skills Card” through the MPQC developed “Site Safety Awareness
Course”
62.5.
A range of QCF
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/ SVQ vocational qualifications can be arranged through the MPQC
approved assessment centre.
62.6.
Contractors Safety Passport with focussed industry content (available from October
2011).
62.7.
Consultancy services to help and advise a company or site on the route towards
competence.
62.8.
A range of Shotfiring publications.
63.
MPQC was created for industry to help, develop and maintain industry training needs. MPQC is
uniquely involved and represented on all the industry bodies and organisations. In addition, our
Training and Education Committee is the forum in which new qualifications and training is
discussed, evaluated and developed.
64.
MP Skills is the UK extractive industry’s leading Approved Assessment Centre specialising in
delivering vocational qualifications for the extractives industry which are awarded by the
Mineral Products Qualification Council (MPQC). Dedicated to working with businesses within the
quarrying, mineral products and mining sector, we use our unique expertise to help
organisations achieve occupationally relevant qualifications throughout their workforce.
65.
MP Skills delivers the MPQC vocational qualifications. With a focus on ensuring workplace
competence throughout the extractives industry, their range of awarded qualifications are
current, sector specific and will always be up to date with the latest guidelines.
66.
The vocational qualification awards offered by MP Skills include, among a number of non-
explosives qualifications:
66.1.
Blasting Operations
66.2.
Drilling Operations
66.3.
Blasting for Non-Blasting Managers
67.
The last qualification is aimed at people who are responsible for blasting operations at a site but
who are not appointed explosives supervisors under the Quarries Regulations 1999, Regulation
25 (1) (b). It provides attendees with sufficient knowledge and practical understanding of
blasting operations to be able to manage a blasting operation at a quarry. The successful
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candidate will have sufficient knowledge to successfully complete the knowledge assessment
criteria for the MPQC Level 6 Award in Managing Quarry Drilling and Blasting Qualification.
Creative Skillset
68.
Creative Skillset
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oversees occupational standards for the performing arts community. Some of
these are relevant to Special Effects (SFX) technicians who work with explosives:
68.1.
SKSSFX01 - Prepare a SFX breakdown and budget
68.2.
SKSSFX02 - Design and plan the effect
68.3.
SKSSFX03 - Special effects workshop practice
68.4.
SKSSFX10 - Create an explosive and pyrotechnic effect
68.5.
SKSSFX11 - Implement a special effect on a production
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CHAPTER 2 – MAPPING AN EXISTING TRAINING COURSE
AIM
1.
The aim of mapping an existing training course is for you to be able to describe the course
training objectives and outcomes in terms of occupational standards.
2.
This map can then be used to identify any gaps between what is taught and what an existing
vocational qualification requires the candidate to be able to demonstrate. Alternatively, the map
can be used to itemise a course certificate for future comparison with the membership criteria
of professional bodies or job criteria if they are themselves mapped or written in terms of
occupational standards.
WHY MAP COURSE CONTENT?
3.
Having spent time defining role profiles and mapping them to the ESA NOS, you know what the
individual member of staff is expected to be able to do. The next logical step is to assess the
member of staff against their role profile to gauge their competence level and identify any gaps
between their existing competence and the organisation’s expectations. Filling those gaps is
highly likely to require formal training so you need to be able to compare the role profile with
existing qualifications and available training courses.
4.
Next you need to be able to identify suitable training courses that can provide some or all of the
knowledge criteria and an acceptable level of skills in the performance criteria of the Standards
in the role profile. You can use words and phrases from the Standards to search for potentially
suitable training courses.
5.
Once you have identified some candidate courses, the next step is to map the existing training
courses to the ESA NOS. This will pinpoint any gaps in the training so that courses can be revised
and new training commissioned where necessary.
6.
The next step is to map the role profiles to existing qualifications and to available training
courses, commissioning bespoke training where it is needed to meet any specialized
requirements.
THE OUTLINE PROCESS
7.
You will need all the information available for the course you intend to map to the occupational
standards and the standards relevant to the type of explosives working that the course supports.
8.
Identify all the training objectives of the course, in detail. Set them out in a matrix, e.g. from a
hypothetical training course for disposal of explosives by burning we see three training
objectives relating to the movement of the explosives to the burning area and firefighting at the
area.
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