Training & Events

Australia’s oil and gas industry has adopted the Common Safety Training Program (CSTP) for all personnel working in offshore production and drilling facilities. The CSTP aims to ensure that all new and existing employees have the same core foundation of safety skills. All existing personnel who meet the experienced worker definition will have to go through a combined Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and safety behaviour observation process to attain a CSTP card. Personnel who are frequent visitors offshore to a production or drilling facility; that is, they spend more than five consecutive nights on an offshore facility or undertake six or more visits offshore within a 12-month period must also attain a CSTP card. As part of the Common Safety Training Program for experienced workers, companies have the option of conducting their own RPL process. This workplace approach has relied on organisations being able to base their decision on accurate records of training applicable to agreed CSTP development areas. In many instances organisations have had difficulty in accessing and recording this evidence. IFAP is able to provide assistance by offering a one day assessment to meet the RPL requirements of the Common Safety Training Program.