Petroleum HR sector council weighs in

Issues 148-page report on key HR issues in the petroleum industry

The Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada has released a 148-page report on key HR issues in the petroleum industry.

The study, The Decade Ahead, looks at issues that need to be addressed such as promoting careers in the industry, increasing access to non-traditional workforces, addressing skills shortages and changes, developing greater workforce mobility and adopting creative human resource practices. (The report is available online at www.petrohrsc.ca/pdf/finalreport.pdf.)

Jayne Stewart, the minister for Human Resources Development Canada — which funded the study — called it “an important step in ensuring a strong workforce throughout the petroleum industry, both today and in the future.”

The government has committed more than $1.3 million to the Petroleum Human Resources Council. In addition to creating The Decade Ahead, the money will be used for two additional projects.

The second project is infrastructure funding that allows the council to focus its efforts on identifying and responding to skills needs, representing the collective interests of industry partners and developing links with the educational system.

The third project, the Petroleum Competency Program, will help the council develop a framework for creating occupational standards across the petroleum industry and develop a strategy for assessment and certification.

According to HRDC, the council was created so that Canada would have the most skilled and professional petroleum workforce in the world. It joins business, labour and the learning system in looking at HR issues.

Sector councils are pan-Canadian organizations that bring together representatives from business, labour, education, other professional groups and government to identify and understand industry-wide problems and to implement long-term HR planning and skills development strategies for their sector. There are currently 27 national sector councils covering about 25 per cent of Canada’s labour market.

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