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Tuesday, January 30, 1973
MACHINE SHOP AND METAL WORKING TRADES
Manual On Minimum Job Standards Published
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A manual setting out the minimum job standards and specifications
for 22 principal jobs in the machine shop and metal working trades has been
published and is now on sale at the Government Publications Centre,
Ferry Concourse, Hong Kong.
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This important publication, in English and Chinese, was prepared by
the Machine Shop and Metal Working Industrial Committee of the Industrial
Training Advisory Committee.
"The manual should play an important role in improving the quality
of our future skilled manpower," a spokesman for the Committee said.
Generally the job standards aim at -
(i) establishing generally acceptable skill standards
for the principal jobs in the trades;
(ii) providing guidelines for courses at technical
institutions or vocational training centres;
(iii) helping managements in devising in-plant training programmes for apprentices and in determining the competency of a person, either a new or existing worker, for a particular job; and
(iv) standardising the nomenclature already used in
the trades.
Specifically the job standards indicate the skills and knowledge
which competent workers in the principal jobs should have. They also indicate
the type of training and technical courses as well as the necessary educational
background for entry into training if the workers are to be equipped with such
skills and knowledge.
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