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IRCA established alliance Down Under

IRCA (International Risk Control Africa) of South Africa has established a worldwide training alliance with the Box Hill Institute of TAFE (technical and further education) in Melbourne, Australia.

Box Hill Institute is one of the largest polytechnic institutes in Australia and provides vocational training and bridging courses into university for students worldwide. Box Hill Institute will provide IRCA with accreditation, assessment delivery and multimedia support for safety, health, environmental and quality (SHEQ) risk management training/development programmes internationally, including South Africa both for its short-term programs and for in depth competency achievement company specific requirements, in line with the online type graduate diploma level programmes running through the Web.

After due diligence assessments, Box Hill Institute has fully accredited the IRCA developed training programmes to promote and deliver internationally recognised diploma courses in SHEQ risk management.

From l to r: Carel Labuschagne MD of IRCA with the centre manager for Box Hill Institute’s International Risk Control Academy, David Gaulke and the programme co-ordinator, Larry Arnost, attended the recent launch in South Africa, of the new training alliance with IRCA.

"Education in Australia is competency-based in line with our National Quality Framework and this fits right in with our fundamental approach, one towards which South Africa will increasingly be obliged to move to stay world competitive," says Carel Labuschagne, MD of IRCA.

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