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15860
Thu, 08/14/2008 - 16:08
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GAMUDA OFFERS TO TRAIN PLANT OPERATORS
SHAH ALAM, Aug 14 (Bernama) -- Gamuda Bhd is ready to help the country address the current shortage of competent and qualified heavy construction plant operators via its RM22 million Plant Operator School (GPOS).
Its executive director, Ng Kee Leen, said the construction industry nowfaced many critical issues.
"The sharp rise in cost of construction materials is one. The other is the loss of skilled workers and supervisory staff and managers to other countrieswhere the wages and opportunities are more attractive.
"It is therefore imperative that we seriously address the shortage and we look forward to working with Construction Industry Development Board, Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia and Human Resources Development Council," he said at the ceremony to mark its success in training the 25,000thstudent here Thursday.
GPOS is the largest and the only one-stop training centre for plantoperation in Malaysia.
It was set up in 1996 as an in-house training academy to provide skills, certification and statutory requirements for Gamuda staff. GPOS is now opened toMalaysians keen to become a construction plant operator.
GPOS will ensure the plant operators are properly trained and certified like those conducted in developed construction markets like Australia, Japan andEurope.
It offers a whole range of plant operation training covering all types of cranes and earth-moving plants, in particular, excavator, back hoe, wheeledloader nad bulldozer.
Each year, around 2,500 trainees graduate under the two-month training programms consisting of 80 percent practical on-site training and 20 percentclassroom theory.
Its executive director, Ng Kee Leen, said the construction industry nowfaced many critical issues.
"The sharp rise in cost of construction materials is one. The other is the loss of skilled workers and supervisory staff and managers to other countrieswhere the wages and opportunities are more attractive.
"It is therefore imperative that we seriously address the shortage and we look forward to working with Construction Industry Development Board, Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia and Human Resources Development Council," he said at the ceremony to mark its success in training the 25,000thstudent here Thursday.
GPOS is the largest and the only one-stop training centre for plantoperation in Malaysia.
It was set up in 1996 as an in-house training academy to provide skills, certification and statutory requirements for Gamuda staff. GPOS is now opened toMalaysians keen to become a construction plant operator.
GPOS will ensure the plant operators are properly trained and certified like those conducted in developed construction markets like Australia, Japan andEurope.
It offers a whole range of plant operation training covering all types of cranes and earth-moving plants, in particular, excavator, back hoe, wheeledloader nad bulldozer.
Each year, around 2,500 trainees graduate under the two-month training programms consisting of 80 percent practical on-site training and 20 percentclassroom theory.
