Sustainability Strategy Commitments

UKOOA Sustainability Strategy 2002 - First Report 2. Social Sustainability 2.4 Managing structural change ahead   Commitment No. 35 - Addressing industry uncertainties on skill needs The Foresight Report underlined the difficulty of planning future skills and manpower requirements, because of the constantly changing and reactive nature of our industry to external factors.  We actively support OPITO's initiative to develop a mapping process to capture data on disciplines and sectoral employment.  Aligned with the government-led Workforce Development Plan, it will help all industry sectors to plan staff and skills needs for the future. Progress to date : achievements and difficulties encountered As mentioned in Commitment No.24, Skills Foresight 2 is due to be published later this year.  cogent is one of the new trail-blazer Sector Skills Councils, appointed by government, and its responsibilities have been widened to encompass those previously undertaken by OPITO (upstream) and two downstream national training organisations, PINTO and CMPNTO, with whom we share many skills and core competences.  An implementation plan is due to be agreed later in 2002. (Note:  PINTO = Petroleum Industry National Training Organisation covering the refining and production of petroleum products  and  CMPNTO = Chemicals Manufacturing and Processing NTO covering the production of chemicals.)   Website References cogent : www.cogent-ssc.com PINTO - Petroleum Industry National Training Organisation : www.pinto.co.uk CMPNTO - Chemicals Manufacturing and Processing NTO : www.cia.org.uk Next commitment [36. Understanding long term social issues with stakeholders] Previous commitment [34. Relations with fishermen: FishSafe] Commitment listing

Sustainability Strategy Commitments