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showed that its staff implement Key Role 2 – Safety Management; Key Role 3 – Test and
Evaluation; Key Role 4 – Manufacture; Key Role 7 – Storage; Key Role 8 – Transport; Key
Role 9 – Facilities and Key Role 13 – Generic.
4.7.
Voglers Eesti OÜ qualified its Explosives Safety Supervisor, by which route it implemented
Key Role 2 – Safety Management and Key Role 13 – Generic.”
5.
One of the most significant unexpected outcomes of this project was that it became clear to all
participants that the principles, processes and methods used by the partners in their sub-
projects could be just as easily applied to many other sectors.
BACKGROUND
6.
The EUExImp project. Project activities were related to the need for up-skilling the workforce in
the European explosives sector to enable organisations and other stakeholders in the sector to
maintain or develop their competitiveness to ensure survival on the global market, prevent job
losses and maintain a safe industry. Project goals comply with the Horizon 2020 targets to
ensure that skills and qualifications can be more easily recognised, within and across national
borders, as the project focuses on one specific sector on the European market, the explosives
sector. The restructuring of the industry, in general, has led to many changes, such as lower job
growth and skills drain due to workers’ retirement. It has brought several changes to the
explosives sector related to education and training, where most training previously was
organized as in-house training, now it is mainly provided by external education and training
institutions. These providers need incentives to adapt their supply to better match industry
demands, by the means of collaboration around education and training with industry partners.
7.
The project aims therefore to develop support structures dedicated for education and training
initiatives targeted for the explosives sector. The target is twofold:
7.1.
To implement selected key-roles from the occupational standards, specifically developed
for the explosives sector in Europe, in five industry partner organisations in UK, Estonia,
Portugal, Sweden and Germany; and
7.2.
To develop easy to use and easy to understand tutorial materials, as a step-by step guide
for process management and this handbook of good practice.
8.
KCEM AB (Sweden) led the project which was partially funded with EC monies through the
Erasmus+ programme. KCEM AB is the Swedish National Node for EUExcert, using its Education
Board as a reference group for EUExcert. KCEM AB worked through the Swedish Council for
Higher Education as the funding authority for Erasmus+ projects in Sweden.
9.
PICRITE Ltd is the UK project partner and Event Horizon Ltd is the UK industry partner; IExpE
remains the UK National Node for EUExcert and conduit for working with other EUExcert
organisations and EUExcert Association.
10.
The project aims to develop knowledge of how to implement the occupational standards as a HR
and management tool at plant level as well as developing existing training into a package that is
transferable within and across organisational and national boundaries. In addition, the project
aims to develop tools for implementing new improved HR-practice based on occupational
standards. The tools have been developed as a step-by-step guide and manual for process
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management when implementing occupational standards and revised to include good practice
and delivered as a handbook for translation and dissemination purposes.
11.
The use of occupational standards in HR-practice ensures that skills gaps analysis, competence
development, education and training, recruitment will be based on European standards and
therefore ensures transferable competencies and ultimately mobile workers. Employees who
are provided with lifelong learning and supplementary education and training based on their
needs in relation to their tasks at work ensures that the risks and hazards at work decreases and
the work will continue to be safe.
12.
The project was conducted as 5 sub-projects, i.e. what each industry partner intended to do to
implement the NOS:
12.1.
Sweden: KCEM AB; SAAB Bofors Test Centre AB – BTC explored the use of the NOS in
a management role, to identify the skills of their explosives workers on their HR system as
part of their ISO 17025 compliance management framework.
12.2.
UK: PICRITE Ltd; Event Horizon Pyrotechnics Limited – Event Horizon redesigned
their existing SFX courses, mapped to the NOS and, in conjunction with the prime British
Entertainment and Cinematographic Trade Union (BECTU), developed and now delivers
qualifications.
12.3.
Germany: Dresdner Sprengschule GmbH; MAXAM Deutschland - their role was to
compare and contrast the NOS with existing German mandatory training and qualification
requirements to identify possible gaps and/or opportunities for change.
12.4.
Portugal: University of Coimbra; G.J.R. - Pirotecnia e Explosivos, SA – GJR intends to
implement manufacturing qualifications for its staff.
12.5.
Estonia: Tallinn University of Technology; Voglers Eesti OÜ – Voglers intends to use
UK qualifications in explosives safety management, to demonstrate their company and
workers’ competence to their international customers.
13.
EUExcert. The EUExcert programme
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aims to establish a stable, firm basis and framework for
vocational education of people in the European explosives sector. Training and education
institutions as well as social partners will have a tool for competence and career planning,
including new training methods as they are developed.
14.
The intended effect of EUExcert is to enhance safe working and reduce the number of accidents
in the explosives business and establish a competitive industry. In the explosives sector in
several European countries a high proportion of the most experienced and knowledgeable
people are nearing retirement or have already retired. Consequently, it is important to
replenish this expertise in this key technological area.
15.
The desired effect will be achieved through the development of a competence and qualifications
framework that it is recognised across the European community (and hopefully beyond). As
such, organisations and individuals using the system should be able to identify the required and
available skills, knowledge and understanding of explosives workers. This recognition should, in
turn, lead to enhanced mobility of explosives workers as their recognised competence should
meet a very high proportion of the regulatory requirements for an explosives worker in the state
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