PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING

Rapra Limited has long recognised the challenges that member companies face competing in a global market. One of the comments we hear regularly is that is so difficult to recruit staff with the appropriate skills and knowledge. Well trained and educated workforce is essential for maintaining the capability to produce the highest quality products and services….. to remain competitive.

Rapra Limited has been working on your behalf with Cogent, the UK Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the Polymer, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Oil and Gas, Nuclear and Petroleum Industries, for some time to help ensure that your future workforce needs are met.

Cogent is licensed by the UK Government to provide employers in our sector with the opportunity for coherent leadership and strategic action to meet their skills needs.

You can join Rapra Limited contributing directly to the activities of Cogent and it’s associated National Skills Academy Process Industries by sitting on your local Regional Skills Board (RSB), please contact them directly by clicking here, or speak to us about your priorities.
You may wish to learn more about the range of career pathways for our industry that have been identified and the Gold Standard continuous professional development programme which is being introduced.

By 2022 Cogent predicts there will be a shortfall of around 40,000 core workers (technicians and operators) in the industries it represents.

As the current group with the greatest number employees in the Cogent industries sector, companies like yours are likely to suffer serious effects if this were to happen.

It’s your future – we’ll work with you to make it safe.