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where the work would be undertaken; it has generally been accepted that there will be an
element of national knowledge that would need to be ‘topped-up’, e.g. the national
implementation of EU legislation or other regulations/licensing requirements.
16.
EUExNet created a transnational European web-based network of explosives sector National
Nodes from each of the partner nations. It was the EUExNet project that accepted the use of the
UK NOS as a basis for future work because the Standards were used to underpin national- and
industry–recognised qualifications across the sector and because they are outcome-based,
requiring the individual to provide evidence of competency and currency in their occupation, not
input-based i.e. dependent on what was taught on a specific training or education event. Eight of
the ten partners agreed that they would attempt to use the UK NOS as a bottom-up approach to
influencing change in their state.
17.
Since the end of the EUExNet project, the UN SaferGuard Programme
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has adopted these
Occupational Standards as the basis for specifying and measuring the competence of explosives
and ammunition staff in its International Ammunition Technical Guidelines (IATG) 01.90
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HOW TO USE THE HANDBOOK
18.
In keeping with the aims of the project in general, and this handbook in particular, you might use
the handbook in one or more of these ways:
18.1.
To help you understand the how and why of implementing Occupational Standards
for Explosives, Munitions and Search Occupations. The ‘how’ is demonstrated through the
associated ‘Step-by-Step Guide to the Implementation of Occupational Standards’ and the
additional detail relating to those activities that were undertaken by the partners in the
EUExImp project. The ‘why’ is demonstrated through the case studies of each of the
‘industry partners’ in the project, which might chime with your own individual or
organisational needs.
18.2.
To help you measure competence in your organisation, which could be useful in
either maintaining your internal standards or demonstrating the competence of your staff
to external ‘authorities’ such as regulators or quality management accreditors.
18.3.
To assist you in developing your competence management systems or determining
the training needs of individuals or an organisation.
18.4.
To assist in specifying or designing training and assessment for internal or external
training providers.
18.5.
As a reference for the occupational standards
18.6.
To use the case studies as examples of how to implement the occupational
standards in your workplace.
19.
We, the EUExImp partners, hope that the handbook is as useful for you as our participation in
the project was for us.
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https://www.un.org/disarmament/un-saferguard/
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/unoda-web/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IATG-01.90-Personnel-Competences-
V.2-rev.pdf
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Chapter 1 - 1
CHAPTER 1 – QUALIFICATIONS
1.
Vocational qualifications exist in many European states and descriptions of the partner nations’
vocational qualifications systems is given in the
chapter on EQF Qualifications
elsewhere in this
handbook. It should be noted that, at the time of writing, few EU states have vocational
qualifications for explosives workers listed in their VET frameworks.
2.
The aim of this chapter is to give the reader a handrail to implementing explosives-related
vocational qualifications (VQs) in their own organisation.
3.
We will look at the reasons why you might want to implement qualifications within the
organisation, how to decide which qualifications are best suited to your organisation, how to
register candidates/learners (the terminology changes but in this context, both refer to the
individual who is to be qualified) for qualifications and the assessment process.
EUExImp partner implementation of qualifications
4.
As a partner in the EUExImp project, Voglers Eesti OÜ hoped to gain experience and knowledge
with Pan-European value. Their aim was achieved by having one of their staff achieving a Level 3
VQ as an Explosives Safety Supervisor, learning about relevant processes and procedures as they
became relevant. Voglers Eesti OÜ is a private company which started in Estonia on 1996. The
company specializes in drilling, blasting and explosives, and on the earlier days loading and
mocking, also crushing the blasted rock. Voglers was supported in the project by Tallinn
University of Technology (TUT), which was established in 1918 and is the leading engineering
R&D institution in Estonia, which supports Estonia’s sustainable development through R&D and
science-based higher education in the fields of engineering, technology, natural and social
sciences.
4.1.
The project case study for Voglers Eesti OÜ is at
Annex A-5
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5.
MAXAM Deutschland is a respected and renowned provider of blasting products, services, and
technical assistance for the global mining, quarrying, seismic, specialty and construction sectors.
The Dresdner Sprengschule has been an international acknowledged educational institution for
more then five decades and also a competent partner for all business consulting in the faculties
of blasting technology, pyrotechnics, explosive ordnance disposal, transport of dangerous goods
as well as civil engineering. MAXAM Deutschland has more than 140 years of experience in
production and application of civil explosives, and its areas of business are:
- Production, sales and application of civil explosives.
- Production of Boosters, Emulsions, ANFO and permitted explosives.
- Blasting service; Calculation of different blasting operations, measurement of blasting
vibrations.
6.
MAXAM Deutschland, supported by Dresdner Sprengschule, acted as a form of ‘control group’ in
the EUExImp project. By this we mean that, because explosives qualifications in Germany (and
the Czech Republic, a former EUExNet partner which uses a similar system) are enshrined in
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