PETRONAS, OPITO Cooperate on Oil, Gas Skills Development in Malaysia

“Through the visionary leadership of PETRONAS, Malaysia has now established the finest technical training facility I have ever seen. We are proud of our relationship and association with PETRONAS and look forward to continuing to work together to develop the skills of the Malaysian people.”

PETRONAS and OPITO have also been working to ensure that every worker gains Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training (BOSIET) before going offshore as a mandatory requirement in the same way as it is compulsory in the North Sea. Seven training providers in Southeast Asia have now been accredited by OPITO to deliver this training which makes sure an individual knows how to get to work safely, carry out their work offshore safely and return home safely.

Doig added: “We are immensely proud of the results achieved by this partnership between OPITO, Petronas and INSTEP together with the seven training providers. In a short space of time, we have designed appropriate, industry-specific, valued nationally and globally recognised training that will result in a safe and competent workforce 

“Being invited by PETRONAS to design a framework that ensures local workforces are suitably trained and qualified to work in the oil and gas industry is an honor and underlines the esteem in which OPITO Is held globally.”

As a not for profit organization, owned by the industry, OPITO will reinvest the revenues generated by these accreditations and standard in the continuous development of educational products and services for the benefit of the industry.

OPITO has a proven track-record in responding to the global oil and gas industry’s training needs. Having successfully designed and monitored safety training standards in the North Sea for many years, OPITO created an international organizational structure to support the move by the industry to adopt common global standards in emergency response and hazardous activities. Over 300,000 people around the world were trained to those standards in 2014, helping prevent incidents through greater safety and competence.