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Understanding occupational standards
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Understanding the combination of standards that make a qualification
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Understanding assessment in the workplace
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Consultation on which approach to take to qualifying company staff.
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Role Profiling workers
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Confirming the qualifications required across the company
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Prioritising which qualifications need to be part of the project and which might wait
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Identifying which members of staff will be involved in the project and in the future
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Identifying a qualifications centre to provide the required registrations, training, assessment
and verification.
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Undertaking the qualifications
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Maintaining the Case study
They first created a check sheet that identified which partner would take the lead:
UC
GJR
Understanding occupational standards
Understanding the combination of standards that make a qualification
Understanding assessment in the workplace
Consultation on which approach to take to qualifying company staff
Role Profiling workers
Confirming the qualifications required across the company
Prioritising which qualifications need to be part of the project and which might
wait
Identifying which members of staff will be involved in the project and in the
future
Identifying a qualifications centre to provide the required registrations, training,
assessment and verification
Undertaking the qualifications
Maintaining the Case study
In order to understand the standards, they worked through them one by one, relating it to their own
needs, using a tabular approach:
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UNDERSTANDING VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
For the key profile 4 on Manufacture were identified three role titles (Manufacturing Engineering,
Manufacturing Supervisor and Manufacturing Operator). For each of them were translated and
analysed the responsibilities and competences relevant to the role.
CONSULTATION ON THE COMPANY’S APPROACH
The responsibilities and competences relevant of each role title were compared in rude approach with
the available staff description of the functions of the workers at the company. This exercise was
performed using the tasks described in the procedure manual of the company for the manufacturing
of black powder for quarries.
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It was also identified the levels of recommended of mandatory vocational training and the
correspondent level within the EU qualification framework.
At the first company meeting in Portugal the partners requested clarification of the assessment
standards, specifically whether a candidate was required to ‘pass’ every element of each unit in their
qualification. Readers will understand that the project partner comes from a higher education
academic institution, in which a candidate under test conditions would be required to attain a mark
of 40-75% to ‘pass’ the test, depending on the assessment strategy of the institution for that
particular qualification.
It is important to note two things in response to this question:
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The approach to assessment for these vocational questions is outcome-based and the
candidate and assessor will agree the assessment method such that the candidate can
demonstrate their competence in the most relevant way. The assessor will provide feedback
at the assessment but should not declare a ‘pass/fail’ decision. A candidate will be told that
they either have or have not attained the standard required for that particular unit or
element of a unit at that time. The candidate who does not attain the standard on a
particular assessment can be reassessed a number of times, using different assessment
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techniques and types of evidence, to allow for the candidate ‘having a bad day’ or suffering
from assessment nervousness.
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A candidate is expected to provide evidence that demonstrates their competence in all
elements of each unit.
ROLE PROFILING
The project partner’s previous experience in EUExcert projects was of great benefit to the industry
partner right from the start. Role profiling had been a topic of discussion and Coimbra University had
been one of the EUExcert partners that made a small pilot study of rolling out a qualification in the
last project.
The Portuguese team had taken careful notes of the role profiling process and developed a system
of role profiling which mapped their expectations of production staff to the Standards and also to
company manuals, to ensure that they had covered as many aspects as possible. This detail proved
very useful in the next stage, when they identified the qualifications that would be most relevant for
the company and those staff that would be assessed within the scope of the project.
The role profiling methodology that GJR and UC adopted was…
Propose the roles:
PROPOSALS
Role title:
ESA Manufacturing Engineer ESA Manufacturing - Supervisor
ESA Manufacturing - Operator
Role purpose:
To plan and manage the
manufacture of ESA safely,
efficiently and in an
environmentally sound
manner using appropriate
techniques which are
efficient, effective and
timely and in compliance
with all relevant legal and
other requirements.
Consult Technical
Authorities as appropriate.
To supervise the manufacture of
ESA safely, efficiently and in an
environmentally sound manner
using appropriate techniques and
to contribute to their efficiency,
effectiveness and timeliness and in
compliance with the organisation's
procedures.
To manufacture ESA safely,
efficiently and in an
environmentally sound manner
using appropriate equipment,
plant, processes, procedures and
techniques in compliance with
the organisation's procedures.
Responsibilities of this role:
Design and implement a
robust Safe Statement Of
Work, which identifies
Hazards, mitigates risks,
predicts possible outcomes
including unplanned events,
Implement a robust Safe
Statement Of Work, which
identifies Hazards, mitigates risks,
predicts possible outcomes
including unplanned events, and
provides appropriate emergency
procedures.
To comply with the Safe
Statement Of Work and your
organisation's policies,
procedures and practices.
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