Oil and Gas training for Western Cape province’s artisans
By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa
Around the September month, Dormac’s first group of learner artisans commenced with their institutional training at Saldanha’s West Coast College, Western Cape province.
The training forms part of the Accelerated Artisan Training Programme (AATP) in welding and concludes with the National Trade Test which, if successfully completed, will result in a trade qualification that is registered and quality assured by merSETA and the Department of Labour.
This AATP programme is part of a strategy put in place by National government to maintain the number of skilled artisans in the country.
Dormac says it has been involved in this project for some time and is one of the top three companies in South Africa with regards to training initiatives having developed 650 a...