Our Common Industry Competencies Specification (CICs) is designed to remove confusion, eliminate duplication in training requirements, and to improve cost efficiency. It has improved worker mobility, allowed Operators and Contractors to better target their training spend, enabled faster mobilisation of workers to site and increased confidence around the competency of the Australian Energy Production Industry workforce.
Rev 8.0 of the CIC Specification includes updates to Unit of Competence (UoC) codes and a revised competence cycle schematic.
Our Common Industry Competencies (CIC) Specification has been developed to:
- Standardise requirements for Australian Units of Competence (UoC) training courses – reducing the number of UoCs in use throughout the industry.
- Define industry-accepted competency validity periods for these UoCs.
- Remove confusion that has the potential to hurt people, while providing cost efficiency by eliminating duplication in training requirements.
Since 2023, the Specification also defines a competence cycle, that formalises skills maintenance and verification of competence (VOC) as alternative pathways for verifying the competency of workers.
The benefit of these alternatives include:
- Removing the requirement for full training each time to revalidate competence by recognising a worker’s experience and proficiency in the job or task.
- Provides an option for onsite revalidation of competence in an environment that is more adapted to the individuals experience and proficiency.
The Specification also defines the requirements with regards to roll out and instruction to contractors.
A full set of supporting documents is available on our website to aid implementation of the Specification in your organisation.
For any questions, or to provide feedback on CIC Rev 8.0, please email the Competence and Behaviour Working Group: [email protected].