Worker certification arrives for blown film.The Canadian Plastics Sector Council in Ottawa, a human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. organization for plastics processing Plastics processing Those methods used to convert plastics materials in the form of pellets, granules, powders, sheets, fluids, or preforms into formed shapes or parts. , released its newest Certified See certification. Plastics Practitioner Program, aimed at blown film. It's the fourteenth national standard for worker skills and follows certification programs for profile and film extrusion, injection molding injection molding n. A manufacturing process for forming objects, as of plastic or metal, by heating the molding material to a fluid state and injecting it into a mold. , and blow molding. Training standards for thermoforming, composites, rotomolding, and fabricating are being developed. Cost per test is C$20. Workers must be Canadian residents with a high-school degree or equivalent and one year of related work experience--or no degree and two years' experience. Workers download test forms from www. cpsc-ccsp.ca, fill in the self-evaluation, and send the form to three people they work with, who also rank their skills. The CPSC CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission (US) CPSC Computer Science (course) CPSC Canadian Plastics Sector Council (Ottawa, ON, Canada) CPSC Chemical Processing Safety Committee then audits the forms to determine that the evaluation is fair, and the worker either gets certified (good for three years) or sees where he or she needs more training. Tel: (888) 248-6589 * www.cpsc-ccsp.ca |
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