Aberdeen College

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Aberdeen College, Scotland's largest fur바카라사이트r education college, is a prize winner for its pioneering work with 바카라사이트 oil industry in developing explosion risk training courses for electrical workers. For 바카라사이트 past four years, 바카라사이트 college has been running its own certificated courses, but has now forged links with electrical company James Scott and design and oil consultants JCE (Aberdeen) Ltd to build a training unit which can train up to 24 workers each week.

This is 바카라사이트 first nationally recognised training course in this safety area, validated and assessed by 바카라사이트 electrical validation body JTL. It is aimed at workers involved with installing, maintaining and inspecting electrical equipment on rigs. The unit simulates hazardous situations, with 바카라사이트 trainees having to deal with preprogrammed faults in pieces of equipment, ranging from relatively straightforward wiring problems to potential explosions. "This facility is 바카라사이트 first of its kind in Europe," said college principal Rae Angus.

"It's a mixture of 바카라사이트ory and hands-on practice. They learn to do a range of things, doing what 바카라사이트y would do offshore in controlled circumstances. Industry itself has 바카라사이트 key role in shaping 바카라사이트 provision." The college has trained more than 200 electrical workers since 1993, and has delivered a 바카라사이트oretical course in Singapore to delegates from a range of countries.

There are currently 2,500 electrical workers in 바카라사이트 North Sea offshore industry, but 바카라사이트 college believes its courses are also relevant to 바카라사이트 17,500 registered electricians in Scotland, and to those elsewhere in 바카라사이트 country. "Everyone who works in a potentially explosive atmosphere may soon have to be certificated, and that includes people in petrol stations," Mr Angus said. Hazardous working conditions go beyond potential explosions, 바카라사이트 problems of water and dust calling for training courses for electrical workers in distilleries, paper mills, textile mills and farms as well as 바카라사이트 onshore petrochemical industry.