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Fortuitously, during the second day of this company meeting, the individual who conducts GJR’s
third-party assurance for quality management and who is their likely candidate for qualifying as a
Assessor for the Level 2 qualifications, was on-site and briefed. He appeared to have understood the
concept of the Standards, qualifications and assessment.
ANNEX D - 1
CASE STUDY – MAXAM Deutschland
BACKGROUND
Maxam Deutschland GmbH
is a part of the Spanish MAXAM Europe S.A. The company has more than
140 years of experience in production and application of civil explosives and its areas of business
are:
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Production, sales and application of civil explosives.
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Production of Boosters, Emulsions, ANFO und permitted explosives.
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Blasting service; Calculation of different blasting operations, measurement of blasting
vibrations.
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Safety advice for different blasting applications.
The project to test the procedure of implementing the occupational standards is very important for
the production process of explosives, especially permitted explosives based on nitric ester. There will
be involved in this project the safety engineer, plant manager, production manager and one
technician. All these participants have more than 10 years of experience. Our expectation is to find
impulse to increase the safety standard in our process of production, transport, storage and
handling of explosives. Increase of the effectiveness of our safety management system (by technical
and organizational measures).
In §7 of the German Explosive Act it is stipulated, that a permit is necessary for handling and
transporting explosive materials.
§ 7 Permit states that:
“Whoever commercially, independently within a business enterprise or an agricultural or
forestry business or when employing workers
1. wants to deal with explosive substances or
2. wants to carry out the transport of explosive substances
needs a permit.”
In § 19 Explosive Act (SprengG) it is regulated, that through the permit holder responsible persons
are assigned which within their area of responsibility independently handle and transport explosive
materials.
A prerequisite for these delegations of authority is a certificate of competence according to § 20
Explosive Act. The certificate of competence is based on an officially recognized proof of technical
qualification.
In simple terms, the approved certificates of competence have only four criteria:
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The applicant must not have a criminal record.
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The applicant must be a minimum of 21 years of age.
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The applicant must not have (mental??) health issues.
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The applicant must have passed an approved initial course and 5-yearly refreshers.
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Approved ways of working are set out in regulations and also in guidance approved by the national
body of insurance companies. The insurance body guidance sets the requirements for acceptable
risk and acceptable working and/or mitigation methods to achieve those levels of risk. Regulation
requires individuals in positions of responsibility to hold either a licence issued by the authority or a
letter of delegation of responsibility from a licence-holder. These letters of delegation will be issued
based on the licence-holder’s judgement of the competence of the potential delegate.
The previous experience of
Dresdner Sprengschule
in EUExcert projects was of great benefit to the
industry partner right from the start. His understanding of both the occupational standards and the
German system of training according to the regulatory requirements was essential to this element of
the EUExImp project.
The approach we decided to take to comparing the UK NOS system with the German regulatory
system was firstly to create role profiles, using the NOS, for the people who undertake the tasks
involved in the production of MAXAM’s mini-booster product and secondly to map the content of
the required training courses against the NOS. This was expected to show any obvious differences
and/or similarities between the two systems. In addition, it could also show and competences that
are required by the company that are not covered in the training and vice-versa, training that is
given but where competences are not required.
In outline, MAXAM’s sub-project has the following elements:
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Understanding the Standards
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Make Role Profiles for the persons who conduct the steps in the process of manufacturing
mini-boosters
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Map the content of the courses that lead to the required Certificates of Competence against
the Occupational Standards (the same as mapping a qualification to the Standards)
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Map some existing courses to the Standards
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Identify any gaps between the courses and Certificates of Competence
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Maintaining the Case study
The process of manufacturing mini-boosters is represented here:
ANNEX D - 3
In German law, any person undertaking work with explosives must have a qualification that pertains
to the process they perform. In the case of the production of mini-boosters, for example, the
operator responsible for inspecting the raw materials for the mini-boosters is required to:
UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARDS
Dresdner Sprengschule has been a partner in the EUExcert programme since its inception and,
having a deep understanding of education and training theory through the rigour of the formal
German education and training system, they made the process of understanding the Standards fairly
easy for the MAXAM Deutschland partners.
ROLE PROFILING
We made an assumption that each of the tasks outlined in the process for manufacturing mini-
boosters would be undertaken by an individual, ignoring the likelihood of a single person
undertaking more than one of the tasks. Each task therefore became a role and could be profiled in
terms of the occupational standards.
So that we had a complete understanding of these roles in terms of the Standards, we spent quite
some time comparing each role against every one of the Standards, considering the Performance
Criteria and the Knowledge Requirements. At the end of this process, we had a comprehensive
spreadsheet with a role profile per column:
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