PRESS RELEASES
Dubai, June 2008
Course aims at upgrading the skills of process operators at DUGAS to help them better understand the work challenges and its environment
Dubai Industrial academy (DIA), a division of Dubai Industrial City, a member of Tatweer, has entered into an agreement to train Dubai Natural Gas Company process operators on Troubleshooting and Fault Diagnosis from its gas plant sites.
The five day programme will focus on helping process operators across DUGAS gas plant think more analytically about the tasks they are doing while giving them a wider understanding of their plant and its processes, as well as ways to deal with troubleshooting and fault diagnosis.
Rashed Al Ansari, Vice President of Dubai Industrial City,explained that the course focuses on one the key important areas for Dubai Industrial City and the industrial community of the UAE.
"We are focused, through the training programmes of our academy, to increase the competence level of the operational staff and upgrade their working skills especially that they are working in a high risk gas industry. This programnme reflects our objective of supporting the industrial sector by upgrading and training the professionals working in Dubai and across the region."
He added that the staff will be trained using plant manuals and plant pipe and instruments drawings (P&ID’s) to ensure the training relates directly to the operators place of work, the challenges they might face at work and ways to resolve them.
Rashed noted that the academy has already trained two shifts of DUGAS process operators out of six DUGAS shifts, each consisting of 12 process operators.
"The trainer of this course commands extensive experience in process operations and he will spend two days on site in DUGAS plant collecting information and data before starting the training programme to ensure that the programme directly relates to their work," he explained.
Rashed added: "The academy plans to offer the industrial sector in excess of 250 courses covering nine industrial fields of Quality, Health, Safety and the Environment (QHSE), Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Power Engineering, Instrumentation & Process Control, Chemical Process and laboratory Operations, Oil and gas, Construction, Logistics & Transport, as well as Technical and supervisory development."
Dubai Industrial Academy, the first of its kind in the UAE, is a dedicated vocational training centre set up by Dubai Industrial City, with a focus on providing a wide range of training solutions to serve the growing needs of the industrial sector in the UAE and the region.
All the courses offered are approved by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority of Dubai (KHDA) and will primarily serve six major industrial sectors - food and beverage, base metal, mineral products, chemicals, transport equipment and parts, and machinery and mechanical equipment industries - the same six zones that Dubai Industrial City focuses on.
The academy's courses are also approved by City & Guilds in the UK and it has been set up by Dubai Industrial City in partnership with the UK-based Technical Training Group (TTE) recognized as a ‘Centre of Vocational Excellence’ from the UK Government.
