ISO 9606 ‘TRAIN THE TRAINER’ AT FEDERATION TAFE IN BALLARAT Joe Sandor (Welding Technology Trainer, Weld Australia) recently completed ‘Train the Trainer’ training in ISO 9606 Qualification testing of welders - Fusion welding at Federation TAFE in Ballarat. The training was delivered to teachers from both Federation TAFE and Corrections Victoria. According to Joe, “The training encompassed multiple welding processes, as well as multiple Welding Procedure Specification (WPS) that were all certified to ISO 9606. The training was delivered over the course of one week and went really well.”
CSIRO GENERATION STEM #WITHSTEMYOUCAN CAREERS EXPO Weld Australia recently had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the CSIRO Generation STEM #WithSTEMYouCan Careers Expo alongside S&L Steel. There is a clear current and future need for STEMskilled talent. STEM skills are already in high demand, growing 1.5 times faster than demand for other jobs. The New South Wales Government has made a ten-year $25 million endowment to the Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) to establish the Generation STEM initiative to attract, support, retain and train NSW students in STEM and school, into further education and into employment. Generation STEM will deliver programs that attract more diverse, high‐potential high school students into NSW‐based STEM educational pathways (higher education and vocational education and training) and retain top performers in NSW‐based STEM employment and/or further education. It was so great to see so many enthusiastic students at our stand trying their hand at welding using our Soldamatic augmented reality welding simulator. It is safe to say that there was a healthy amount of competition amongst students and their peers.
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Weld Connect | July 2022
L to R: Nathan Kilbourne, Damon Blackwell, Andrew Glisson, Ricky Bethune.
