This project will look at updating occupational skill standards ensuring that racing integrity and animal welfare skills and knowledge critical to the industry are reflected in training.

Training Package Projects are established only when a Case For Change has been approved by the Australian Industry Skills Committee (AISC), in line with the National Schedule. Following this approval, Skills Impact and the IRC take the Training Package Project through a process that adheres to the 2012 Standards for Training Package Development.

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Project Scope

This project reviews relevant greyhound racing components of the RGR08 Racing Training Package to ensure it is able to support the industry in ensuring the industry has access to best practice occupational skills standards that will assist in addressing issues related to the management of animal welfare and racing integrity. The industry’s ability to demonstrate high levels of compliance and participant behaviour needs to be improved, as a failure to do so could result in potential industry closures as recently occurred in NSW. The NSW government reversed this decision following industry’s commitment to improve its ability to demonstrate participant behaviour acceptable to current community standards.[1]

The proposed components that require improvement to ensure the training package can be used to benchmark participant occupational performance comprise of the following;

• 2 qualifications
• 25 units of competency (23 existing and 2 new)
• 12 skill sets

[1] https://www.nsw.gov.au/news/greyhound-racing-continue-under-strict-regulations

Thank you to those who provided feedback on the draft units of competency, qualifications and skill sets.

The feedback will inform the work on the final draft of units, qualifications and skill sets which will be available for industry validation the last week of May.

The drafts that are under review are listed below.

Thank you to those who participated in the validation process for the final draft units of competency, skill sets and qualifications. The consultation period for this Validation stage of the project is now closed.

The final drafts have been forwarded to the Racing Industry Reference Committee (IRC) for sign off. After final quality assurance of the drafts, they will be submitted to the Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC) to consider and approve for publication on training.gov.au.

Validation means checking or proving that something is logically and factually accurate. Industry views were sought on whether current racing integrity and animal welfare for greyhounds has been incorporated into the following units of competency, skill sets and qualifications. The final draft units, skill sets and qualifications that were available for industry validation are listed below.

The Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC) has approved the Case for Endorsement for the updated and revised qualifications, skill sets and units of competency for Greyhounds, along with a Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

The revised qualifications, skill sets and units for Greyhounds will be released on training.gov.au in December 2017. (The greyhound qualifications relied upon units that were being updated as part of the Equine Safety in Training Project and contained within the ACM Animal Care and Management Training Package, which has just been endorsed by the AISC).

Once published on training.gov.au, registered training organisations (RTOs) can apply to deliver these qualifications, skill sets and units. The courses will be available to any person in industry who wishes to undertake nationally recognised training.

The Companion Volume Implementation Guide contains key information to help training providers implement the units, skill sets and qualifications, including the key work and training requirements in the industry; regulation and licensing implications for implementation; pathways advice; industry sectors and occupational outcomes of qualifications; and advice on workplace health and safety implications.

Please find below copies of the final documents that were endorsed by the AISC.