Pursuant to section 8 of the Industry Training Act 1992, provisional recognition for the NZ Extractive Industries Training Organisation (Incorporated) as an industry training organisation has been granted for a period of one year, with effect from 19 February 2011 until 19 February 2012, to set standards at Levels 1-8 on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework for the following industries:
Coal mining (opencast and underground), alluvial pit (gravel, sand and opencast), quarry and aggregates (hardrock and opencast), dredging for minerals (civil works excluded), tunnelling, and drilling (hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon); gas engineering, pipeline mechanical inspection, gas metering, governor fitting, gas measuring, appliance servicing, mains and service laying, leakage surveying, specialist meter reading, plant/process operations in the exploration/production, hydrocarbon refining and petrochemical processing sectors of the petrochemical industry and petrochemical industry specific skills, geoscientists, engineers (chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical and process), mechanical instrumentation and electrical tradespersons, metering and telemetry technicians, cathodic technicians,
abrasive blasting covering; abrasive blasting, blasting coating operations and protective coating industry; gas distribution, reticulation, sales, repair and maintenance, petrochemical and abrasive blasting industries; and
areas of scrap metal recovery, resource recovery,
waste management (excluding water), recycling and
zero waste.
Dated at Wellington this 17th day of February 2011.
HON STEVEN JOYCE, Minister for Tertiary Education.