Pursuant to section 5 of the Industry Training Act 1992,
full recognition is given to the New Zealand Extractive Industries Training Organisation Incorporated to set standards on the National Qualification’s Framework at Levels 1 to 8 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 14th day of February 2006.
MICHAEL CULLEN, Minister for Tertiary Education.