Training for prospective high voltage operators is essential to minimise health and safety risks and to meet the requirements of the regulation 617 of the Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022.
This Guideline sets out the minimum requirements for approval of a high voltage switching operations course.
The regulator expects the following:
- the approved course is delivered and assessed by registered training organisations (RTOs) that are registered with either:
- Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA)
- Western Australian Training Accreditation Council (TAC).
- the RTO fully complies with the legislative requirements of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) Quality Framework, especially the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2025
- the RTO includes the minimum required units of competency (UoCs) in the approved course
- course participants obtain a unique student identifier (USI)
- RTOs upload UoC attainment to the national USI record for course participants promptly
- learning delivery and competency assessment is conducted in-person.