Designing skill prioritised and responsive qualifications
The objective of this project was to build speed to market, and responsiveness to address issues around the identification, and prioritisation of skills needs.
This project was undertaken under the Mining Skills Organisation Pilot (MSOP), in partnership with the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) and funded by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR).
The Digital Transformation Project Hub focused on closing the gap between the creation of new technologies and developing workers’ skills to apply them - increasing the speed to market of new training products to enable the faster adoption of new technology.
A paper was developed to identify and prioritise new digital and technology content in training packages, informed by desktop research, and industry consultation, and tested with organisations in the innovation community.
The paper focused on the skills pipeline, identifying and forecasting the future skills needs of industry based on how and when emerging technologies might impact the workforce.
It looked at strengthening the relationship between Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Australia’s innovation sector, and redefining the role and importance of VET in workforce development.
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MSOP Digital Transformation Hub
Skilling an industry to meet emerging technologies means having faster speed to market updates of accredited courses.
Key outcomes of the work
The Project Hub looked at enhancing the speed to market of training products through a model for migrating existing and new accredited content into national training packages, to accelerate training system responses to identified digital/technology-based skills.
Qualifications and resources
The Digital Transformation Project Hub supported transitioning accredited qualifications in autonomous operations from locally accredited courses that were tailored to Rio Tinto, to a series of nationally recognised training products within the Resources and Infrastructure Industry (RII) training package.
Through collaboration with stakeholders, the Project Hub achieved the goal of developing, consulting on and having endorsed, a set of nationally recognised training products that are applicable to autonomous operations more broadly.
In October 2022, the following nationally recognised training products were listed on the national training register and are now available for delivery by approved Registered Training Organisations (RTOs):
- RII21222 Certificate II in Autonomous Workplace Operations
- RII41522 Certificate IV in Autonomous Control and Remote Operations
- RIISS0075 Work with Data in an Autonomous Workplace Skill Set.
In an extension to the original project, learner and assessor resources were developed as well as Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) kits for the four core units in RII21222 Certificate II in Autonomous Workplace Operations.
Project Hub Demonstrations
The project demonstrated a successful mechanism through:
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Collaboratively developing pathway materials and information to support digital transformation with an initial focus on automation training products and leveraging existing accredited training products
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Developing processes to enshrine this material into the training package framework.
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Trialling these mechanisms and processes with the qualifications in automation, developed by the Western Australia Rio Tinto Partnership
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Developing accompanying standardised learning resources and assessment tools to encourage and support training provider take-up of the qualifications.
