RAPAD WSA & partners support 12 new learners into our industry.

Simmonds & Bristow would like to congratulate the Remote Area Planning & Development Board – Water and Sewage Alliance (RAPAD WSA) who, along with their government partners are supporting 12 learners from central-western Queensland to undergo training to achieve their Certificate III in Water Industry Operations qualification.

In the past few months, Simmonds & Bristow’s Specialist Trainer Liz Millan, has been fortunate enough to travel around the Qld Central Western Outback delivering a face to face training program for NWP30219 Certificate III in Water Industry Operations, specialising in treatment.

The learners include water and wastewater treatment operators from four participating RAPAD Water & Sewage Alliance councils: Barcaldine, Barcoo, Blackall-Tambo and Longreach. Learners are drawn from treatment systems at Alpha, Aramac, Muttaburra, Barcaldine, Stonehenge, Jundah, Windorah, Blackall, and Ilfracombe.

By delivering training on location at each of these sites, Simmonds & Bristow have been able to tailor a customised training plan relevant to the particular treatment technologies each learner operates.

The program is around the halfway mark, with the majority of learners having completed their first blocks of training and assessment activities on location at Longreach, Ilfracombe, Blackall, Aramac, Barcaldine and Windorah. The training will continue in September with the next component of the program being in Jundah & Windorah.

This onsite training has been made possible with the facilitation of Remote Area Planning & Development Board – Water and Sewage Alliance (RAPAD WSA), which has seven local government members: Barcaldine Regional Council, Barcoo Shire Council, Blackall-Tambo Regional Council, Boulia Shire Council, Diamantina Shire Council, Longreach Regional and Winton Shire Council and three (3) non-local government members: the Department of Energy and Water Supply (DEWS), Queensland Water Directorate (qldwater) and the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ). Additional support for the program also comes from Department of Employment, Small Business and Training (DESBT) through the User Choice funding they provide to eligible learners.

Simmonds & Bristow would like to thank the CEO & the Director of Works at Barcaldine, who made time to come down to the Barcaldine STP to talk through the upgrade currently under construction with the group studying trickle filters and sedimentation.

It has been fantastic for these regional operators to have a forum to network, share problems and solutions, plus up-skill themselves with our trainers guidance, to ensure community and environmental health is maintained.