1. PROCESS INDUSTRIES Personal Care Biofuels Personal Care Composites Retaining and Improving Skills in the Polymer Sector ---------------- Flexible Foam Group Meeting ---------------- 11th November 2010

2. National Skills Academies – a reminder of their function Launched in 2006 Employer-led centres of training excellence. Operating in all key sectors of the economy, from process industry to creative & cultural to retail to nuclear to construction. Business leaders have taken control of the design and delivery of learning in their industry. Accreditation of training providers to supply world-class programmes. In the current economic climate, National Skills Academies are enabling industry to develop people and industry ready for the upturn.

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4. Industry Sectors Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Polymers

5. National Skills Academy for the Process Industries What have we achieved to date? 1. Employer Engagement 2. Training Providers 3. Products & Services 4. Expansion of the Academy Foot-print

6. 1. Employer Engagement Management Board with 12 senior industrialists – including Ineos, GSK, SABIC, LINPAC, Contract Chemicals, Pentagon. Regional Skills Boards with 60 senior industrialists. Business Partnerships with many small and medium sized companies. Corporate Partnerships with large global companies. Individual Memberships aimed at attracting 600,000 employees. 6

7. The Academy Board Employer led organisation A head office in Darlington Regional focus through Regional Skills Boards Chris Horton Linpac Paul Booth SABIC Allan Laing Pentagon Joanna Woolf Cogent

8. 2. Provider Network The building of a training provider network with specialised training for the UK Process Industry. The Academy has established a strong track record of accreditation of providers which involves detailed inspection and grading of facilities, quality training standards and staff. 32 training providers accredited by the Academy. 42 more training providers are in the ‘accreditation pipeline’ with Expressions of Interest under review. Regular training provider events and workshops are held to share best practice. 8

9. Referrals 9 Employers Academy Referral ProvidersEmployers Academy Referral Providers Identified Training Need Training Offer or Funding £2.5m training requirement £m’s Funding and Provider offers

10. 3. World Class Products and Services 10......a skills benchmark for world-class performance. Assessment System for Employer Training developed to measure employer-delivered training compared to the competence requirements expressed in the Gold Standard for a given role. The Skills Passport provides employers and employees with a user-friendly, online record of their accredited and non accredited training and qualifications, creating a full skills profile of the learner.

11. World Class Products and Services 11 Productivity & Competitiveness – a tool box aimed at increasing efficiency through better training and competence, which really delivers bottom line results. Deliver improved performance through a competent workforce NEBOSH ‘Gold Standard’ Workplace Health & Safety. Affordable e-learning resources now available online Skills Assurance E-Learning

12. Skills Assurance Delivering improved business performance through a competent workforce Process Safety Management Organisational Competence Gap analysis Training needs assessment Identification of training solution Delivery through accredited provision Record your training on the Skills Passport

13. 13 E-Learning Award in Safety, Health and Environment for the Process Industry Unit 1 Workplace Safety Foundations Unit 2 Risk Assessment Unit 3 Process Safety Unit 4 Management and Control of Environmental Hazards Multiple choice examination Offline assignment (within 14 days of Unit 1 examination) Multiple choice examination Offline assignment Foundations of H & S Responsibility for H & S H & S Risk assessment and control Work equipment H & S Transport safety Electrical safety Fire safety H & S during manual handling and repetitive activities Hazardous substances

14. Further benefits On hand Skills Advise. Advice on National and Industry Specific funding Influencing qualification development and training provision Products & Services – bespoke solutions for your business that demonstrate competence in training and workforce standards

15. The Process Industries – Emerging Technologies Biotechnology Composites

16. The Emerging Technologies – Biotechnology Academy The industry is very diverse: Biofuels - Bioethanol, Biodiesel Marine Biotechnology Biomaterials - Chemicals - Pharmaceuticals - Polymers and composites Biofood applications 16

17. The Emerging Technologies – Composites Academy This emerging industry already has a turnover of £1bn It has a global growth rate of up to 16% p.a. Broad application rage, from aerospace to medical devices Significant export market

18. But don’t just take our word..................... “The Industry Gold Standard is absolutely essential if this vital and value-adding sector is to realise its ambitions in an aggressive global market. Without such a standard, there is a danger our industry will lag in productivity terms”. Steve Westhead, Managing Director, Solutia Inc. Newport. “We are a highly capital-intensive industry that needs the people to realise a prosperous future. At Ineos we have also had to make cutbacks in the current climate, but people development has not been one of them. You can’t stop and start Apprenticeship schemes or stop maintaining graduate programmes. We must be trained and ready for growth when the upturn arrives, and the National Skills Academy for the Process Industries is ideally placed to help in this”. Tom Crotty, Chief Executive Officer, INEOS Olefins and Polymers Europe.

19. Questions ? Thank you for your attention !