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Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package endorsed

22 July 2005

The Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package ICP05 was today endorsed by the National Training Quality Council.

Endorsement follows a significant review process which involved wide-ranging consultation with industry and training organisations across Australia.

"In reviewing the Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package, IBSA recognised a need for the industry to employ a techno-savvy workforce with adaptable skills to meet new demands from customers. The Training Package has been designed to cater for new and emerging technologies and addresses current and future needs for formal qualifications," said Sharon Coates, Chief Executive Officer of IBSA.

The Training Package will mean access to nationally recognised skills and qualifications for people working in the printing and graphic arts industry.

The new Training Package contains 34 qualifications, from Certificate II to Advanced Diploma. It has a focus on flexibility and encapsulates the need of enterprises to have a selection of competencies across business, design and technology.

The Training Package has a focus on general workforce skills and requires the completion of three key underpinning skills to enable the successful attainment of individual qualifications.  This supporting knowledge relates to workplace communication, workplace safety/OHS and the implementation of quality standards. 

Qualifications in the Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package which cover both general and specialist areas include:

  • Printing and graphic arts;
  • Graphic media;
  • Printing;
  • Converting, binding and finishing;
  • Sacks and bags;
  • Mail house;
  • Cartons and corrugating;
  • Ink manufacture; and
  • Management/sales.

IBSA is responsible for the nationally endorsed Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package ICP05. A Training Package is a nationally endorsed and recognised set of integrated components for training and assessment for a specific industry, industry sector or enterprise that can be used for developing and recognising people's competencies.

For more information contact Linda Arnold, Innovation & Business Skills Australia at linda@ibsa.org.au.

 

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