News News 2010-06-28 17:Jun:th 2010-06-28 17:Jun:th http://www.easyguides.com.au admin@easyguides.com.au Copyright 2010 Easy Guides Australia Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:27:08 +1000 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:27:08 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/491 White card training materials

Help your students get their white card

Easy Guides construction induction white card start-up pack helps your registered training organisation get on scope. Each start-up pack gives you a full range of learning and training tools—all mapped to CPCCOHS1001A Work safely in the construction industry. With each start-up pack you get:


• 10 x learner’s guides

• 1 x trainer’s guide

• 1 x PowerPoint and quiz CD

• 1 x trainer’s resource CD.


National Quality Council (NQC) noted tick

Your white card start-up pack also comes with the NQC noted tick of approval for training support materials.


Mapping of materials included

We’ve fully mapped the start-up pack to the unit of competency to help you get the new white card on your scope. This means the white card start-up pack helps you with audit—and ensures your training materials comply with the Australian Quality Training Framework.


Save thousands of dollars

A consultant will charge you thousands of dollars to write and map your white card training materials. Easy Guides saves you that cost. We've written and fully mapped your white card start-up pack to the unit of competency.


Help your students get their white card

Easy Guides publish picture-based training materials. Use the plain words and pictures in our start-up pack to help your students get their white card.


Want to know more?

To order your free CD of the new materials click here.


 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:30:10 +1000 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:30:10 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/481 High risk licence training materials

Help your students get their high risk licence

You can now get a head start with the new high risk licences. You see, we’ve fully mapped the start-up pack to the unit of competency to help you get the new high risk licence on your scope.


Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF)-compliant

We write each high risk licence start-up pack to the unit of competency. This means the start-up pack helps you with audit—and ensures your high risk licence training materials comply with the AQTF.


National Quality Council (NQC) noted tick

Your high risk licence start-up pack also comes with the NQC noted tick of approval for training support materials.


Help your students get their high risk licence

Easy Guides publish picture-based training materials. Use the plain words and pictures in our start-up pack to help your students get their high risk licence.


Want to know more?

Forklift truck TLILIC108A

Boom-type elevating work platform TLILIC508A

Dogging CPCCLDG3001A


To order your free CD of the high risk licence start-up pack click here. To view your training options in an Easy Guides start-up pack click on the PDF below.

 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:27:31 +1000 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:27:31 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/261 General OHS Induction for the Construction Industry Easy Guides Australia has released a set of training materials to cover the new unit of competency CPCCOHS1001A ‘Work Safely in the Construction industry’. This unit is included within the CPC08 Construction Training Package, enabling delivery within the VET sector.

These materials include:
• a Workbook
• a Trainers guide
• a PowerPoint presentation & Quiz.
• a Trainer's Resource CD.

To learn more about these products click here.

The new materials aim to provide anyone new to the construction industry with basic knowledge of OHS legislative requirements. This includes principles of risk management and the prevention of injury and illness in the construction industry and is recommended for:
• All persons who carry out construction work, including site managers and supervisors, surveyors, labourers and trades persons
• All persons who access operational construction zones unaccompanied or not directly supervised by an inducted person, and
• All persons whose employment causes them to routinely enter operational construction zones.

General induction should be completed once upon entry to the industry before commencing construction work. However, general induction may be repeated when the person with control of the construction work decides that there is a need for re-training. This can be determined through supervision, incidents, risk management, or when a person re-enters the industry after an extended absence (for example 2 consecutive years).

The National Code of Practice for Induction for Construction Work
The Code brings together best practice from Australian state and territory OHS authorities into a framework to promote a nationally uniform approach to OHS induction training in the building and construction industry. This Code of Practice provides guidance to persons working in the general and residential construction sectors on the types of induction training that may be needed to provide construction workers with an awareness and understanding of common hazards on construction sites and how they should be managed.
 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:45:21 +1000 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:45:21 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/391 The new high risk licence system - What's the difference? By James Tennant, Managing Director, Easy Guides Australia Pty Ltd

The "driving school" has become compulsory!"
When I sat for my driving licence test, it didn’t matter if I had been trained by mum or dad or a professional at a driving school. The only thing that mattered was that I could pass a knowledge and practical test and then I would be allowed to take to the roads! How I was trained to pass that test was not something the system was interested in.

Using the analogy of getting a car licence, the new high risk licence system has made the ‘driving school’ compulsory! The ‘driving school’ is called a registered training organisation (RTO). The course I do at the RTO is checked by the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) to make sure it meets all the requirements set by the government.

The RTO will train me in the practical skills and knowledge needed, and will give me mini tests (formative assessment) along the way to make sure I’m reaching the standards required as I move through the course.

Once the RTO is satisfied that I have met all the standards in the course, I will go on to do a final (summative assessment) test. This final test will be conducted by an accredited assessor who will use a test set by the guidelines of an ‘Assessment Instrument’. I will complete a knowledge and practical test, and if I pass, I’ll have my licence which will be recognised anywhere in Australia.
In a way I will have been tested twice in the new system. First I’ll have to pass all the things in the RTO course and then I’ll have to do a final test to receive my licence.

In the new system I’m not the only one being tested. The RTO is checked by the State Registering and Course Accrediting bodies and the assessors who conducts the final ‘Assessment Instrument’ test are checked by the OH&S regulator (eg. WorkSafe).

The National Standard for Licensing Persons Performing High Risk Work covers areas including scaffolding, rigging, dogging, forklifts and crane operators.

With the emphasis on training in the new system, I’m sure Australia will be a safer place for people working in high risk licensed areas.

[NOTE: This article may be reproduced in full with acknowledgement to Easy Guides Australia Pty Ltd. You may find it helpful in explaining to employers and members of the public the key features of the new system. At the time of writing, no state or territory is using the new high risk units of competency. This is expected sometime in the next 12 months.]
 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/381 High Risk Licensing Start Up Packs

To help registered training organisations (RTOs) get started with delivering the new high risk licence units, Easy Guides Australia is developing a series of learning support materials for a number of licence classes in the new system. Each Start Up Pack can be used as part of the auditing process for an RTO to get a new Licence Unit on their scope. Once purchased, the packs have been flexibly designed so that further ordering of materials can be tailored to suit your budget and training needs. The learning and training resources in the Start Up Packs have been designed using the new high risk Units of Competency as their base so that they will be Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) compliant. We believe our learning materials represent ‘best practice’ so will be a valuable tool in implementing the new system. The first Start Up Pack for ‘TLILC108A Licence to operate a forklift truck’ has is now available. With development in full swing, further Start Up Pack for other licence classes are expected shortly. To find out more about the new forklift training materials click here. To order a FREE promotional CD that explains and shows you samples of the new materials click here. To view flexible training options in using an Easy Guides Start Up pack click on the PDF below. 


 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:12:23 +1000 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:12:23 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/471 How to Make the Assessment Instruments AQTF Compliant HOW TO MAKE THE ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS AQTF COMPLIANT

By James Tennant
Dip.T,B.Ed,Gad.Dip.Ed(Tesol),MA(Tesol)
Managing Director
Easy Guides Australia Pty Ltd

Easy Guides Australia Pty Ltd published an editorial recently noting that some states and territories do not believe the new high risk
licence Assessment Instruments are AQTF compliant. A registered training organisation (RTO) Easy Guides is doing some contract work for has shown us a copy of one of the Assessment Instruments. The Assessment Instrument, in the way it is formatted, shows no evidence that it is covering the Elements,Performance Criteria (PC), Required Skills (RS), Required Knowledge (RK) or Critical Aspects of Evidence (CAE) of the Unit of Competency it is deemed to assess.

If this mapping does exist elsewhere, it has not been given to the RTOs who have received the Assessment Instruments so that they can be safe in knowing that along with all of its other learning and assessment strategies, The Assessment Instrument is AQTF compliant and meets the requirements of the Unit of Competency.

It is easy to be critical without providing a solution. Taking the positive approach, Easy Guides Australia has provided a sample template to show how the Assessment Instrument could be set out to transparently show that it meets the requirements of the unit. Easy Guides Australia has done this using the existing NOHSC:7019 Forklift Truck Assessment Instrument (freely available on the Internet) to create the sample template.

As mentioned, the Assessment Instrument should be accompanied by a mapping document showing that it clearly meets all the requirements of the Unit of Competency.

Finally, and this comment is given absolutely in the spirit of a helpful observer, Easy Guides Australia believes that knowingly releasing
a 'flawed tool', if the Assessment Instruments are indeed flawed as some states believe, then legal action could follow at some future
time. If a worker is killed or injured working on a crane for example, and it can be shown that the final summative assessment
(Assessment Instrument) did not assess an aspect of the Unit of Competency that would have prevented the accident, then the victim or family of that victim would be entitled to compensation.

In contributing to this discussion over the Assessment Instruments, Easy Guides Australia Pty Ltd stands to gain no direct commercial
advantage. We may receive an indirect advantage if this contribution is seen to enhance our professional reputation in the industry we serve - that is for others to decide.

A thorough review of the Assessment Instruments (if that is proved to be necessary) may delay the 1st July 2010 implementation for
those states and territories intending to start using the new Units of Competency and Assessment Instruments on that date.
However, any delay that may be necessary will far outweigh the future cost resulting from not identifying and addressing
the potential problems.

Footnote: Easy Guides Australia Pty Ltd fully supports the introduction of the new national high risk licence system. This editorial has been written in the spirit of a helpful observer. We have been writing learning materials for this industry for over ten years now and we want to see the new system be the best it can be.

Please forward this page to any persons in government and elsewhere who might find its contents helpful. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:37:53 +1000 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:37:53 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/461 Are the New Assessment Instruments AQTF Compliant? Editorial
James Tennant
Managing Director
Easy Guides Australia Pty Ltd

Easy Guides Australia Pty Ltd is a major publisher of learning materials for licensing materials now deemed "high risk". We are currently creating and releasing new learning materials for the new national licensing system that sit under the 'National Standard for licensing persons performing high risk work'.

The new system requires learners to complete a Unit of Competency course through a registered training organisation (RTO). Once the learners have successfully completed the course (eg. TLILIC108A Licence to operate a forlift truck) including formative assessment tasks along the way, they are then given permission to undergo the final summative assessment which comes in the form of a mandated national OHS endorsed Assessment Instrument.

It has come to our attention that some states and territories believe the new Assessment Instruments are not AQTF compliant. Easy Guides Australia has no opinion on whether this is factual or not. We do make the following comment however. When Easy Guides Australia prepares learning materials for the new high risk units, we must make sure that our materials (training tasks, review questions,practical assessments etc) are AQTF compliant. We have a mapping document (Audit Tool) that shows where the materials cover the Elements, Performance Criteria (PC), Required Skills (RS), Required Knowledge (RK) and Critical Aspects of Evidence (CAE). An RTO using our materials cannot pass the audit to get a licence class on scope unless our materials meet the requirements of the unit of competency to be AQTF compliant.

An RTO Easy Guides is doing some contract work for has shown us a copy of one of the Assessment Instruments. There is no evidence of any mapping to the Unit of Competency. Questions and practical tasks have not been tagged by Element, Performance Criteria etc. At face value there is no evidence in the way the Assessment Instrument has been set out that it is, or is not, AQTF compliant. The only way to determine AQTF compliance is for an individual to go through the laborious process of checking each question or task and determining what aspect of the Unit is being assessed. This task should have been integrated into the writing of the Assessment Instruments. This is what Easy Guides does in developing the new materials to support the introduction of the national high risk lice nce unit.

It is a simple process to map the Assessment Instruments to the Units of competency to identify gaps and add additional information to ensure compliance. In summation, if Easy Guides Australia must undergo such rigor to ensure our learning materials are AQTF compliant, why should the final summative (Assessment Instrument) be subject to any less rigor.

Footnote: Easy Guides Australia Pty Ltd fully supports the introduction of the new national high risk licence system. This editorial has been written in the spirit of a helpful observer. We have writing learning materials for this industry for over ten years now and we want to see the new system be the best it can be.
 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:09:13 +1000 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:09:13 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/451 RTO's and Easy Guides Helping RTOs get the most out of Easy Guides learning materials.

Registered training organisations (RTOs) are now the only way a person can gain a high risk work licence in many states or territories. An RTO must document a structured training program showing how the Unit of Competency learning outcomes have been achieved.

RTOs can continue to use our Learner Guides, PowerPoint Presentations and a range of other products, but must document how they form part of a structured training program. To assist RTOs in this process, Easy Guides has produced a brochure 'Helping RTOs get the most out of Easy Guides Learning Support materials'.

The brochure is packed with training ideas showing how a range of Easy Guides materials can be used to help a learner achieve the underpinning knowledge and skills required.

 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:39:36 +1000 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:39:36 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/441 Dogging Learning Materials Released After much blood, sweat and tears our 'CPCCLDG3001A Licence to perform dogging Start Up Pack' is now available for sale. This set of Dogging learning materials has been created to meet the NEW National Unit of Competency - CPCCLDG3001A Licence to perform Dogging.

Purchasing the Dogging Start Up Pack will provide employers, learners, trainers, assessors and RTO's with support materials that help meet the formal requirements of the Training Package containing the licence unit.

Included in this pack is:
1 x Dogging Information Book
1 x Dogging Learner Workbook
1 x Dogging Trainer's Handbook
1 x Dogging PowerPoint Presentation
1 x Dogging Trainer's Resource CD
1 x Dogging High Risk Training Logbook

Audit Tool
A new feature of this Start Up Pack is a fully completed Audit Tool to show that the learning materials have been fully mapped to Performance Criteria, Underpinning Skills and Knowledge, Range Statement and Critical Aspects of Assessment. This 'internal' audit of the learning materials will be a great help to both the RTO and the auditor when the actual audit is undertaken to add a unit to scope.

(The existing Start Up Packs - Forklit, EWP and Construction Induction will include a fully completed Audit Tool in the near future.)

To purchase our new CPCCLDG3001A - Licence to perform dogging Start Up Pack click here. If you aren't ready to buy but would like to find out more about how these Start up Packs work you can order one of our FREE Promotional CDs here. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:37:45 +1000 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:37:45 +1000 http://www.easyguides.com.au/news/id/431 New High Risk Training Record Logbooks Easy Guides Australia has developed a new style of Training Record Logbook to comply with the requirements of the 'National Standard for Licensing Persons Performing High Risk Work'.

Just released:
LOG-002 Record of Training Logbook - Generic
LOG-101 Record of Training Logbook - Forklift
LOG-102 Record of Training Logbook - EWP
LOG-105 Record of Training Logbook - Dogging

Some of the features of the new High Risk Training Record Logbooks
include:

- space for date and time of training session
- Element and Performance Criteria covered by an activity
- a signed entry and licence details of the person supervising
- many other handy features.

The new High Risk Training Record Logbooks are the same price as our existing Operator Training Logbooks. Our existing Operator Training Logbooks (LOG-001) are still current and valid however do not contain the requirements of the new high units of competency now being used in NSW.

We recommend that our new High Risk Logbooks be purchased only by NSW companies and RTOs at this time as NSW is the only state using the new high risk licence units of competency.

Other states and territories should continue to purchase our regular Operator Training Logbooks until further notice.

To order the new High Risk Training Record Logbooks click here or phone 1300 733 220.