Stairway to a licence and beyond: Licensing Issues National Project: volume one

The Queensland Department of Employment and Training has been funded by the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) to facilitate a National Licensing Issues Project in specific areas of licensing. This project is concerned with how to enable the vocational education and training (VET) system to address licensing standards within national training standards to the satisfaction of licensing authorities and industry. The areas specifically examined were occupational health and safety licensing, multi-combination driver licensing and dangerous goods licensing requirements. The...  [+] Show more

The Queensland Department of Employment and Training has been funded by the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) to facilitate a National Licensing Issues Project in specific areas of licensing. This project is concerned with how to enable the vocational education and training (VET) system to address licensing standards within national training standards to the satisfaction of licensing authorities and industry. The areas specifically examined were occupational health and safety licensing, multi-combination driver licensing and dangerous goods licensing requirements. The definition of an occupational licence adopted for this study is ‘any form of regulation that restricts entry to an occupation or a profession to those who meet competency-related requirements stipulated by a regulatory authority’. The findings of the project are presented in three volumes. This first volume provides a range of the specific recommendations, tools and strategies for improving how licensing standards are addressed within the training package development and review process. Volume two contains appendices that provide a range of tools or specific recommendations that could be used to support the integration of licensing standards within the VET system. Volume three contains appendices that provide a range of tools and strategies that specifically relate to how to integrate occupational health and safety licensing within the VET system.

A further project report entitled ‘A licence to skill: the implications of industry licensing for the implementation of Training Packages’ is indexed at TD/ANTA 71.16. A paper by Peter Eickenloff, entitled ‘Occupational licensing and links to VET’ and presented at the 11th National VET Training Research Conference held in Brisbane in July 2002, is indexed at TD/TNC 70.686.