Over the next few weeks, the National Skills Academy Process Industries will be contacting  employers in South Wales in the first phase of a rolling UK-wide survey looking at how companies ensure their workforce- from CEOs to operators- has the skills and knowledge to manage and operate efficiently and safely.

In the wake of major incidents  across the process industry from extraction, manufacturing to storage, employers and professional and regulatory bodies have worked with the National Skills Academy to develop both a strategy for Process Safety Management, and a Competence Assurance  approach to  ensure the UK industry sets the benchmark for  best practice.

The South Wales survey will provide us with valuable data on how different companies approach organisational competence assurance and process safety, and how they assess the skills of their workforce. It will also test the extent to which employer are benchmarking against the Gold Standard competency framework  developed  Cogent the Sector Skills Council for the Science Based Industries.

Process industry skills experts , Dr Ian Mains, Roger Langford and Andrew Evans  from the National Skills Academy  will be visiting  companies and key partners from Pembrokeshire to Newport and are available for interview. 

For media enquiries contact matthew.lowe@cogent-ssc.com or mervin.dadd@cogent-ssc.com
Tel:  0845 607 0140    or email enquiries@process.nsacademy.co.uk