Training Packages

Industry Training Packages represent national industry benchmarks for nationally recognised job outcomes in the vocational education and training system. They are an integrated set of nationally endorsed Competency Standards, Assessment Guidelines and Australian Qualifications Framework qualifications for a specific industry, industry sector or enterprise.

Training packages comprise:

Competency Standards: define the requirements for workplace performance. They are expressed in outcome terms (e.g. prepare a tender bid) and specify the knowledge, skill and application of same to the standards of performance require the workplace.

Assessment Guidelines: provide a quality assurance framework for accurate, reliable and valid assessment of the competency standards, ensuring that assessments are thorough, consistent and valid.

Qualifications: formal certification recognising that a person has achieved learning outcomes or competencies that provide a meaningful outcome at an industry or enterprise level. Qualifications generally comprise a number of core and elective units that industry consider workers require to perform a particular job.

Vocational competency can be achieved in many ways, and Training Packages acknowledge this by emphasising (via units of competency) what a learner can do - not how or where they learned to do it. For example, some experienced workers might be able to demonstrate competency against the standards and gain a qualification without completing a formal training course (skills recognition or recognition of prior learning).

Training Packages servicing the Financial, Administrative and Professional Services Sectors:

Business Services Training Package – BSB07

The Business Services Training Package (BSB07) details qualifications and competency standards that are recognised nationally by industry and training regulators.

Overview of the Business Services Training Package
Endorsed date: December 2007
Status: Version 2.0 released 10th March 2009

Number of competency standards: 583 (Includes 52 units imported from other Training Packages)
Number of qualifications: 66
Number of Skill Sets: 21

Further information on the Business Services Training Package can be found on the Innovation and Business Skills Australia Website http://www.ibsa.org.au/.

Financial Services Training Package (FNS10)

The FNS10 Financial Services Training Package was developed after a full review of the FNS04 Financial Services Training Package which had its primary release as Version 1 in 22 November 2004. FNS10 superceedes FNS04 as the national Training Package which is recognised by industry, training and financial regulator.

The FNS10 Financial Services Training Package rationalises the units of competency and includes more imported units to reduce duplication. FNS10 qualifications increase to 51 to cover new industry specialisations and better reflect career and learning pathways.

Overview of Financial Services Training Package
Endorsed date: 4 July 2010 Version 1,
Status: Version 1 of FNS10 is now current.

Number of competency standards: 342 (plus 133 units imported from other Training Packages)
Number of qualifications: 51
Number of Skill Sets: 2

The Financial Services Training Package (FNS04) contains skills standards that apply to enterprises and individuals and to people working within the financial services industry. The finance industry is a major driver of Australia's strong economy, with more than $18 billion net flowing through the sector annually.

Further information on the Financial Services Training Package can be found on the Innovation and Business Skills Australia Website http://www.ibsa.org.au/.

Property Services Training Package (CPP07)

CPP07 represents a significant phase in the development of Training Packages for the Property Services Industry, covering the skills needs of people within the Security, Property Development, Sales and Management (PDSM), Spatial Information Services (SIS), and Access Consulting Sectors.

The qualifications framework and units of competency for the various sectors of the Property Services Industry have been traditionally presented in three separate Training Packages (Asset Maintenance, Asset Security and Property Development and Management). The formation of the CPP07 Training Package began a process of consolidating those three Training Packages into a distinctive Property Services Training Package.

The process commenced with the redevelopment of the industry sectors covered by the former PRD01 Property Development and Management Training Package, and the subsequent inclusion of the former PRS03 Asset Security Training Package.

The CPP07 Property Services Training Package now includes the redeveloped qualifications framework and units of competency for the following sectors:

Property Development, Sales and Management (including business broking, property operations and development, real estate and stock and station agency sectors from the former PRD01 Training Package)
Spatial Information Services (including spatial information services from the former PRD01 Training Package)
Security (including security operations, technical security, investigative services, biometrics, and security and risk management sectors from the former PRS03 Training Package)
Access Consulting (including access consulting from the former PRD01 Training Package

The Asset Maintenance Training Package is currently being reviewed for incorporation as a sector of CPP07.

Overview of Property Services Training Package
Endorsed date: 28 August 2007 Version 1, 7 may 2008 Version 2, 8 September 2008 Version 3, 25 September 2008 Version 4, 30 March 2009 Version 5
Status: Version 5 of CPP07 is now current

Further information on the Property Services Training Package can be found on the Construction and Property Services Industry Skills Council website http://www.cpsisc.com.au/.

Asset Maintenance Training Package (PRM04) (Carpet Cleaning, Cleaning Operations, Fire Protection Equipment, Fire Safety Systems, Pest Management & Waste Management)

The Asset Maintenance Training Package (PRM04) was endorsed in February 2004. It was a fully reviewed and revised version of the original PRM98 Training Package and includes cleaning, carpet cleaning, fire protection equipment and fire safety systems inspection, pest management and waste management.

Overview of Asset Maintenance Training Package

Endorsed date: 19 March 2004 Version 1, 30 March 2009 Version 2, 30th March 2009 Version 3
Status: Version 3 of PRM04 is now current, however it is currently being reviewed for incorporation as a sector of Property Service Training Package CPP07.

Further information on the current review of the Asset Maintenance Training Package can be found on the Construction and Property Services Industry Skills Council website http://www.cpsisc.com.au/.

To purchase a copy of the training package please contact the following suppliers:

Australian Training Products
http://www.atpl.net.au/
Ph: (03) 9655 0600

Innovation & Business Skills Australia Ltd (IBSA)
http://www.ibsa.org.au/index.jsp
Ph: (03) 9815 7000

How can I Get More Information?

Visit the National Training Information Service website or contact the relevant Industry Skills Council:

Construction & Property Services Industry Skills Council
http://www.cpsisc.com.au/
Ph: (02) 6230 2907

Innovation & Business Skills Australia Ltd (IBSA)
http://www.ibsa.org.au/index.jsp
Ph: (03) 9815 7000

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