Industry Training At Work Day

The range and depth of industry training was on show as part of Industry Training at Work Day on Thursday 1 May.

Politicians and other community leaders visited workplaces that work with their Industry Training Organisation to arrange training for staff.

“We’re extremely proud of our sector and what it achieves and it has been great to showcase that around the country,” Industry Training Federation Executive Director Jeremy Baker said.

Feedback from Industry Training at Work Day has been hugely positive, with visitors appreciating the chance to meet the people at the grassroots of industry training.

“ITO staff have been really impressed with the interest shown and the questions that have been asked. To go to a workplace and meet first hand the people doing the training and their bosses is invaluable to increasing understanding – much more so than reading about it in a policy paper!

“Each year 180,000 New Zealanders from 35,000 businesses and organisations take part in some form of industry training. I hope that Industry Training at Work Day has given those who took part a greater understanding of who these people and businesses are and what they are achieving.”

Photos of the Day

NZ First MP Ron Mark and Labour Candidate Chris Hipkins learn on the job from Print Apprentice Anthony Faifai. Anthony, who showed the two politicians around NCI Packaging in Upper Hutt, is completing his National Certificate in Printing: Formed Shapes (Level 4). (PrintNZ Training)

Associate Tertiary Education Minister Hon Maryan Street meets trainees at Crown Flooring in New Lynn, Auckland who work with the Flooring ITO.

Modern Apprentice Heke Blackbee shows National Party Education Spokesperson Anne Tolley how to operate a digger at Fulton Hogan in Gisborne. Watching the lesson is Modern Apprentice Richard Haraki (left) and site supervisor Joshua Taylor. (InfraTrain)

Mana MP Hon Winnie Laban gets some tips on water safety at the Porirua Aquatic Centre from assessor Janine Waters. (Sport, Fitness and Recreation ITO)

Palmerston North Mayor Jono Naylor and Labour's Palmerston North candidate Iain Lees Galloway learn the ins and outs of building from Gregory Chawynski, General Manager Mc Millan and Lockwood Ltd Palmerston North. (BCITO)

Newtown McDonalds Operations Manager Jonty Barker shows the workplace's clear tracking system for training, which involves all its staff. (Hospitality Standards Institute)

Industry Training Federation Executive Director Jeremy Baker is taught how to paint properly from one of Paul Reddish Decorators' apprentices. (Creative Trades ITO)

ACC’s Contact Centre Staff were glowing in their praise of the benefits they get from working with the ETITO – the electrotechnology ITO. They liked the quality of the work and materials they received and emphasised the distinct advantages of the industry training approach, like the use of ‘real’ materials for evidence in assessments.

Paul Blades, Service Manager at Kiwikill Environmental Services, gives National's Mana Candidate Hekia Parata a run down on pest eradication during a warehouse visit in Porirua. (Building Service Contractors ITO)

Labour's Wellington Central Candidate Grant Robertson gets a haircut from apprentice hairdresser Reemon Youkhana at Cathy Davys Hair Design. Looking on is Hairdressing ITO Chief Executive Erica Cumming.

As part of Industry Training at Work Day Hauraki Mayor Hauraki Mayor John Tregidga presented modern apprentice Daniel Mudgway with his National Certificate in Extractive Industries (Introductory Skills) Surface Extraction Level 2 and modern apprentice Dion Leach, with his National Certificate in Extractive Industries (Operations) Surface Extraction Level 3. (Extractives ITO)

National Party MP Chris Finlayson with one of Goldmarks six Joinery apprentices Auvasa Fiu at their main workshop in Kilbirnie Wellington. (Joinery ITO)

Conservation Minister Hon Steve Chadwick gets a hands on experience at the Fire Training Centre in Rotorua with the Fire and Rescue Services ITO

National Party Industry Training Spokesperson Colin King learns first hand about aircraft maintenance from Joseph Cox, a first year Aeronautical Engineering Trainee at Air NZ Aircraft Maintenance facility at Christchurch Airport. (ATTTO)

Bad weather may have forced them inside but that didn't prevent Rangitikei Mayor Chalky Leary and Labour's Te Tai Hauauru candidate Errol Mason from finding out about industry training at Downer EDI Works in Marton. Here they're with trainees Andrew Desmond and Richie Graham. (InfraTrain)

MITO apprentice Steve Shaw shows Phil O'Reilly (Business NZ) and Jeremy Baker (ITF) how to use a diagnostic tool. Steve is employed by GT Motors in Wellington and is currently working towards completing the National Certificate in Automotive Engineering (Level 4).

Labour MP Moana Mackey was a guest at Naturally Native Nursery in Whakatane, which organises its training through the Horticulture ITO. Apprentices Michelle Saville and Monique Vanstone showed her through the nursery.

Kaitaia's Te Houtaewa Trust was host to Te Taitokerau's Maori Party MP Hone Harawira and Labour MP Hon Shane Jones.  The Sport, Fitness and Recreation ITO  is working with the Trust on a pilot project based on Māori Events Management applying the training in the context of coordinating Te Houtaewa Challenge, which the trust has been co-ordinating for 16 years.

National MP Hon Tau Henare visited Continental Car Services in Auckland to learn more about apprenticeships. With him are Graham Doggett (MITO Customer Services Manager), and Duane Jarrett (Continental Car Services After Sales Manager) MITO

National MP Dr Hon Lockwood Smith checks out progress on the Northern Gateway Alliance ALPURT B2 project. With him are project trainees Haydn Rutherford, Tom Brand and Rory Pole. InfraTrain