Advanced Diploma in Explosives Management
Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology - Manufacturing and Assembly
Purpose and Rationale
Purpose:
The Advanced Diploma in Explosives Management is designed to integrate the technical know-how of explosives with managerial skills on a tactical level. The qualification ensures that learners will comply with and manage all regulatory competence requirements set by Occupational Health and Safety and Explosives legislation. Thus, the learners will apply for certification as explosives managers or responsible persons.
The qualifying learners will have the competence to apply explosives technologies, sound safety, health and environmental principles as well as management skills. These skills are appropriate for the cost-effective management of products and processes in an explosives related environment.
Rationale:
International explosives and defence industry initiatives such as the EUExert projects (establishing common standards of explosives competence) and the SAFEX-international drive for advancing explosives safety (SAFEX comprises 250 explosives manufacturing companies) together with South African regulatory bodies (OHS Directorate of Department of Labour) and industry advisory forum of NIXT (National Institute for Explosives Technology) are continuously addressing the education and training challenges for explosives competence.
In the context of these initiatives comprehensive national surveys covering the stakeholders of the entire explosives industry were conducted (Unisa/Nixt, 2009), (Verster/NWU, 2014), (DOL/Unisa, 2015) confirming the specific industry need for technically and managerially qualified staff in the explosives manufacturing, mining, military, SAPS, and explosives user's sectors of the industry.
The needs for managerial skills in an explosives environment combined with an explosives technology background are of the utmost importance for the optimal, effective, and safe function of the explosive industry. The importance of having well-trained personnel with managerial skills who understand the material they are working with is nowhere else more important than in the explosives industry.
Learners of this qualification will manage and lead people in manufacturing, product and process development, manage quality systems, and contribute to the strategic management of the organization. The explosives and armaments manufacturing industry, as well as the various branches of the Department of Defence, employ learners from this qualification. The planning of the qualification ensures learners, once qualified, will contribute to making the industry safer and more environmentally friendly.
The qualification is further intended to prepare learners for managerial positions in the manufacturing, product and process development, and quality assurance environments in the explosives field.
Outcomes
- Apply the concepts of strategic management on all management levels to cope with environmental challenges.
- Test and evaluate explosives and explosive-filled items.
- Apply Safe, Health and Environmental (SHE) management principles when providing leadership and managing staff.
- Apply appropriate skills and knowledge to conduct a limited research project.
- Apply safe handling principles during explosives processes throughout the life cycle of explosives products and to ensure that learners can control explosives and explosives related activities safely in a practical environment.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
- Plan strategically to give direction to the enterprise in a dynamic environment.
- Implement goals and strategies successfully.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
- Apply and use the elementary explosive technologies during manufacturing processes and material handling techniques.
- Control static electricity and electrostatic discharge.
- Understand and apply the types of tests and evaluation to measure the physical and detonation properties of explosives.
- Supervise limited manufacturing processes.
- Apply quality assurance principles and solve management problems.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
- Interpret and apply related environmental requirements as well as environmental management system requirements in an explosives workplace environment.
- Interpret and apply environmental-related legal requirements in an explosives workplace environment.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
- Perform a limited research project.
- Identify a work-related problem on a tactical level.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
- Demonstrate an understanding, identify and explain Explosives Classification, to mark and Packaging Requirements.
- Explain, calculate, demonstrate and conduct inspections of Explosives Storage Legislation and Regulations.
- Identify, explain, conduct inspections and process applications for permits for Explosives Transportation Legislation and Regulations.
- Identify, explain and demonstrate an understanding of the legislation for Control of Explosives.
- Demonstrate an understanding, analyse and prepare for the Control of Explosives Tasks.
Integrated Assessment:
- Formative and summative assessment will be conducted in line with the guidelines of the institution's assessment policy.
- Formative assessments will comprise a series of compulsory assignments (not less than two) per module.
- Summative assessments will consist of at least a two-hour venue based examination.
- The learner's final mark will comprise a year mark (20%) after completing a specified number of compulsory assignments.
- A written examination in each module shall consist of 80% of the total final mark.
Qualification Details
- Type
- Advanced Diploma
- NQF Level
- 07
- Min. Credits
- 120
- SAQA Source
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