- Encourage and assist in the continuous improvement of education and training
- Develop industry traineeships through:
- Promoting the industry to students undertaking secondary and tertiary education as a vocational path
- Encouraging businesses to support, and employees to participate in traineeship training
- Fostering a culture in which employees request vocational training as part of their employment opportunities
- Encouraging businesses to use traineeships as a means of introducing younger people into what is an ageing workforce
- Establishing and supporting networks within the Association that develop a businesses’ understanding of the vocational training options
- Support Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and the state training authority by:
- Encouraging and fostering quality training and assessment
- Assisting the State Training Authority with auditing and registration of industry RTOs
- Addressing the literacy needs of employees within the industry through continual access to WELL funding
- Actively seek funding for both private and public RTOs
