The Chemical sector is a highly regulated industry in terms of Environmental safety, and product quality. In recent years the profile of the teams in this sector have been transformed to include many new sills. Outcome Training Associates is currently, or has worked with major clients in order to ensure that their teams have been trained and validated as competent to function in this environment..

The industry faces more and more pressures.

• Cost competiveness
• Regulatory requirements
• Competence
• Mergers / takeovers
• Technological change
• New workforce

The following case study highlights Outcome Training Associates' experience in the sector. For more details / client references please contact us by clicking here.

A major Chemical company based on Teesside were experiencing significant changes to their business and subsequently a new owner took over the company. The immediate impact of the new structure was to challenge the technical competence of production teams

The training strategy developed for business provided a structure to challenge, "what we do?", "why we do it?", "how we do it?" and "how we evaluate it?". The resulting analysis identified the key steps to achieve the business objectives:

• Technician Training Tooboxes - Training delivered "on shifts" to satisfy basic skill requirements and provide a cost effective approach to training, for example Basic Process Chemistry, Control Valves, Centrifugal Pump Operation and Fault Finding, Distillation, Level Measurement etc..
• Activity Based Learning - Modules developed for all the unit operations of the process to train and validate performance to a consistent level
• Job Methods - Procedure development to provide a clear process for training and validation which explained 'how' and 'why' we do what we do.
• Training for Assessors - to provide a quality verified process for the assessment / validation of competence to stand up to the rigours of the Industry regulators.
• Management of NVQ - qualifications on behalf of the client to allow them to focus on their core activity
• Project Management - of the training activities

The results have produced a completely structured technical training process that meets the business and regulator's requirements.

This has resulted in,

• 30 on shift technical toolboxes across the range of technical training
• Over 50 activity based learning modules for 3 plants with assessment guides
• Over 30 shift based assessors assessing some 300 plus job methods and ABLs
• Numerous NVQ Units and awards for over 120 registered technicians
• New validated plant induction process
• Recording and tracking processes

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