For the benefit of your career and the safety and performance of the industry as a whole, getting skills assessed is important.
Sometimes you will find you already have the skills and other times you will need to acquire new ones.
Why is assessment so important in this industry?
For a few reasons, assessment is particularly important in the Forest, Wood, Paper and Timber Products Industry:
Jobs are often technical and require great skill
There is sometimes an element of risk
Work is often with sophisticated and expensive equipment
Maintaining quality requires high levels of skill
There's a very strong emphasis on OHS.
To keep our integrity and credibility, we must keep up the highest standards. Assessment helps us do this.
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What is assessment? Assessment is not a test, but a measure of whether a person has the skills and knowledge they need to do their job.
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How does assessment work? Assessment is usually done by a qualified assessor who comes into the workplace to observe people at work.
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Who provides assessment? Nationally recognised assessment - and training - is provided by RTOs (registered training organisations).
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Who is assessment for? It doesn't matter if you're new to the Forest, Wood, Paper and Timber Products Industry or an experienced worker - you'll need to have your work skills assessed.
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