Year 2010 E-Newsletter ● ASPRI ● UEN : S97SS0046G Official Opening of IPI Official Opening of IPI ASPRI’s training arm, Institute of Proc- ess Industry (IPI) was officially opened on 30 November 2010 by Minister of State for Manpower and Trade and In- dustry, Mr. Lee Yi Shyan at Suntec Sin- gapore. IPI, a collaborative effort be- tween ASPRI and the Singapore Work- force Development Agency (WDA), is a Continuing Education Training Centre (CET) to provide competency-based training and assessment programmes for the Process Industry. Leveraging on the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifi- cations (WSQ), IPI offers industry- relevant WSQ courses to upgrade and upskill the local workforce. It currently offers 5 WSQ courses* for the industry. To date, IPI has trained more than 2,000 PMETs and craftsmen (local and foreign workers) from all levels since its inception in December 2008. *See page 6 to find out more about the WSQ courses offered by IPI. JANUARY—DECEMBER 2010 From Left : Mr. Mok Twang Kiow, General Manager of SWTS Pte Ltd; Mr. Thomas Chong, General Manager of Shao Fook Engineering Pte Ltd; Ms. Cheng Li Chen, Executive Director of Hai Leck Engineering (Pte) Ltd; Mr. John Lim, Senior Director — Business Development & Corpo- rate Services of PEC Ltd; Mr. William Chia, Executive Director of Rotary Engineering Ltd; Mr. Chan Heng Kee, Chief Executive of WDA; Mr. Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Manpower and Trade and Industry; Mr. James Goh, President of ASPRI; Mr. Charles Quek, Executive Director of HSL Constructor Pte Ltd; Mr. Loh Lock Mun, Executive Director of FRP Products Company Pte Ltd; Mr. Dennis Thomas, Executive Director of Industrial Services Pte Ltd; Ms Cheng Woei Fen, Executive Chairman of Mun Siong Engineering Ltd, Mr. Poh Soon Keng, Managing Director of Aedge Technologies Pte Ltd and Mr. Tan Chee Hua, Managing Director of Sinmado Engineering Services Pte Ltd Member-companies who pledged to send their workers for the WSQ courses at IPI.
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Y e a r 2 0 1 0 E - N e w s l e t t e r ● A S P R I ● U E N : S 9 7 S S 0 0 4 6 G
Official Opening of IPIOfficial Opening of IPI
ASPRI’s training arm, Institute of Proc-ess Industry (IPI) was officially opened on 30 November 2010 by Minister of State for Manpower and Trade and In-dustry, Mr. Lee Yi Shyan at Suntec Sin-gapore. IPI, a collaborative effort be-tween ASPRI and the Singapore Work-force Development Agency (WDA), is a Continuing Education Training Centre (CET) to provide competency-based training and assessment programmes for the Process Industry. Leveraging on
the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifi-cations (WSQ), IPI offers industry-relevant WSQ courses to upgrade and upskill the local workforce. It currently offers 5 WSQ courses* for the industry. To date, IPI has trained more than 2,000 PMETs and craftsmen (local and foreign workers) from all levels since its inception in December 2008. *See page 6 to find out more about the WSQ courses offered by IPI.
JANUARY—DECEMBER 2010
From Left: Mr. Mok Twang Kiow, General Manager of SWTS Pte Ltd; Mr. Thomas Chong, General Manager of Shao Fook Engineering Pte Ltd; Ms. Cheng Li Chen, Executive Director of Hai Leck Engineering (Pte) Ltd; Mr. John Lim, Senior Director — Business Development & Corpo-rate Services of PEC Ltd; Mr. William Chia, Executive Director of Rotary Engineering Ltd; Mr. Chan Heng Kee, Chief Executive of WDA; Mr. Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Manpower and Trade and Industry; Mr. James Goh, President of ASPRI; Mr. Charles Quek, Executive Director of HSL Constructor Pte Ltd; Mr. Loh Lock Mun, Executive Director of FRP Products Company Pte Ltd; Mr. Dennis Thomas, Executive Director of Industrial Services Pte Ltd; Ms Cheng Woei Fen, Executive Chairman of Mun Siong Engineering Ltd, Mr. Poh Soon Keng, Managing Director of Aedge Technologies Pte Ltd and Mr. Tan Chee Hua, Managing Director of Sinmado Engineering Services Pte Ltd
Member-companies who pledged to send their workers for the WSQ courses at IPI.
Editor’s Message
The association remains busy as it embarked on more
efforts to bring its members overseas, in addition to
rolling out new as well as existing initiatives and ac-
tivities for its members. 2010 has also been a good year
for most of its members as the two mega Shell and
ExxonMobil projects and other investments in the
chemical and pharmaceutical sectors helped to keep
them busy. This e-newsletter is slightly different from
last year’s as we have combined all 4 quarters together
in this edition. You will find some events highlight,
new training courses, new committees, updates of gov-
ernment policies and etc. Enjoy!
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editorial Advisory Mr. James Goh, President Mr. Lim Jit Say, Executive Di-rector
Editors
Ms. Chantal Quek
Ms. Adeline Tan
We want to hear from
you We are always seeking ways to im-
prove this publication. We welcome contributions of news related to the process supporting industry.
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Inside this issue
Official Opening of IPI Page 1
Editor’s Message Page 2
Editorial Board
ASPRI Events for the Past Year Page 3
Presentation to MOGSC Page 4
Meaningful Events Introduced to Members Page 5
Meaningful Initiatives Introduced to Mem- Page 5
New Training Courses Conducted by ASPRI & IPI
Page 6
Forming of New Committee Page 7
Upcoming Events Page 7
Secretariat Notice Board Page 7
Important Updates on Government Policies Page 7
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ProcessCEM Asia 2010 - Opening on 5 Oct ‘10
Conference of ProcessCEM Asia on 5 Oct ‘10
Seminar on Business Opportunities with VINACHEM
ASPRI-IE–SCIC Mission to Vietnam
ASPRI HR Breakfast Seminar on Branding
Prosperity Lohei and Annual Dinner
CIPPE 2010 at Beijing
ASPRI - EIC Business Net-working Semiwith Samsung nar C&T and Gazprom
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ASPRI Events in the Past YearASPRI Events in the Past Year Trade Missions and Exhibition
The 11th China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibi-tion (cippe 2011) - 22 to 24 March 2010
ASPRI-IE SCIC Mission to Vietnam - 26 to 29 April 2010
Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) 2010 - 28 June to 2 July 2010
ProcessCEM Asia 2010 - 5 to 7 October 2010
Seminar
Materials Familiarisation Training (MFT) for HR Capability Package - 24 to 25 March 2010
Seminar on Petrochemicals Industry - 24 March 2010
ASPRI HR Breakfast Seminar on Branding Innovation - 23 April 2010
Networking Lunch Seminar on Business Opportunities with VINACHEM - 25 June 2010
ASPRI-EIC Business Networking Seminar with Samsung C & T Corporation and Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T) - 13 August 2010
Networking Events
ASPRI Annual Prosperity Lohei Dinner 2010 - 26 February 2010
ASPRI Golf Tournament cum Dinner at Sentosa Golf Club - 1 April 2010
ASPRI Annual General Meeting - 22 July 2010
ASPRI 7th Lunar Month Festival Celebration - 20 August 2010
Promoting Internationalisation
Networking
Annual Golf Tournament and Dinner 2010
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Presentation to Presentation to Malaysian Oil Malaysian Oil
and Gas Service Council (MOGSC) and Gas Service Council (MOGSC)
In its concerted efforts to form an ASEAN Federation, ASPRI visited the MOGSC at its office in Kuala Lumpur on 26 October 2010. Similar to ASPRI, the MOGSC promotes the interests of Malaysian oil and gas service providers to make Malaysia a principal player for products, services and resources for the global oil & gas industry. Both Mr. Lim Fung Suan, Assistant Treasurer and Mr. Thomas Chong, Committee Member of ASPRI 8th Executive Council went into an interactive discussion with the MOGSC team. Mr. Lim also gave a thorough presentation of ASPRI and the pro-posal of the ASEAN Federation.
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ASPRI-NTU Bursary To encourage more local graduates to join the process workforce, ASPRI contributed $68,050 to Nanyang Technical University (NTU) in the form of bursary which is tenable for only 1 (one) aca-demic year; is an amount of $65,000, combined with 1-1 government matching of $65,000 to fund 1 bursary of $5,000 annually and in perpetuity from AY 2011 onwards. The bursary will be open to any Singapore Citizen or Singapore Permanent Resident who show sound academic re-sults and experience financial difficulties when pursuing his/her second year undergraduate stud-ies at either the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering or School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, NTU.
Meaningful Initiatives Introduced to MembersMeaningful Initiatives Introduced to Members
Meaningful Events Introduced to MembersMeaningful Events Introduced to Members
ASPRI Special Medical Rates at West Point Hospital ASPRI & its 2nd HR Working Committee have negotiated special medical rates and privileges for Work Permit Medical Checkup (new and renewal), Outpatient Consultation, Audiometry and other medical services at West Point Hospital for ASPRI members for one year w.e.f. 1 May 2010 to 30 April 2011. To enjoy the special rates and privileges, please register (application is complimentary) as corporate member of West Point Hospital before 30 April 2011!
ASPRI Special Premiums for Foreign Workers Medical Insurance & Security Bond ASPRI & its 2nd HR Working Committee have negotiated special premiums for Foreign Worker Medical Insurance (without deductibles) (valid for one year) and Foreign Worker Security Bond Insurance (valid for two years) exclusively for ASPRI members! For more information, contact E. Tay Trading Company at Tel: 62946996 Fax : 62969377.
bizSAFE Convention and WSH Awards 2010
Feb 2010 JETRO, IE Singapore and CII co-organised - Invest in India Seminar
WSHC Safety Symposium 2010
Process Safety Excellence Conference April 2010
ASPRI-SBF-SICC jointly organised Seminar on “ Enhancing Your Business Resil-ience and Sustainability via Business Continuity Management (BCM)” August
2010 SCIC Golf Tournament 2010
International Business Fellowship (iBF) Executive Programme on Vietnam (jointly organised by IE Singapore and SBF)
Sept 2010
EIC Singapore Business Presentation - KBC Advanced Technology and Worley-Parsons
Oct 2010
BlueSky Festival 2010 - Embracing Innovation, Redefining Your Enterprise Nov 2010
Sixth 'SICCI Champions-of-Industry Dialogue Session': Succeeding in Family-run Businesses: The “Dos” and the “Don’ts” Dec 2010
Invitation to the Forum on Malaysia's Economic Transformation Programme (ETP)
New Training Courses Conducted By New Training Courses Conducted By
ASPRI & IPIASPRI & IPI Being both a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) accredited training provider and WSQ CET Centre, ASPRI and its training division, Institute of Process Industry (IPI) have been extremely busy conducting various training courses all year round and developing new training courses to meet the in-dustry’s increasing requirements. To benefit the industry so as to pro-vide cost-saving funding support for Singaporeans & Permanent Resi-dents, ASPRI has obtained Skills Pro-gramme for Upgrading & Resilience (SPUR) funding for three of its most prevalent industry courses as at Janu-ary 2010:- 1) Oil/Petrochemical Safety Orien-tation Course (OPSOC) 2) Oil/ Petrochemical Industry
Safety Course for Supervisors
(OPISCS)
3) Confined Space Safety Assessor Course (CSSAC)
Since September 2009, ASPRI has collaborated with Exxon-Mobil to con-duct the plant’s in-house safety train-ings for their resident contractors (mostly members of ASPRI) at ASPRI’s premise:
1) Contractors’ Supervisor Safety Workshop (CSSW)
2) Working at Height
3) Lifting Management System
More than 1,500 supervisors and workers has been trained as at Nov 2010.
Working at Height & Lifting Management System (LMS)
IPI, which was set up in December 2008 by ASPRI and WDA as a CET Centre of the Process Industry in Singapore, has trained close to 2,000 workers from 35 companies as at Nov 2010. WDA has awarded close to 5,000 WSQ State-ments of Attainment (SOAs) to success-ful trainees for the three following WSQ courses to train adult workers with spe-cialised skills to help enhance the overall competitiveness and productivity in the industry:- 1) WSQ Certificate in Generic Manu-facturing Skills (Process)** – a course developed to help workers enter the process industry by providing a set of generic skills based on the competencies needed by the industry. 2) Certified Operations Specialist (COS) – with certification awarded by the WDA to enhance the professionalism and capability of workers in the manufac-turing industry.
3) Certified Operations Professional (COP) – with certification awarded by the WDA to enhance the professionalism and capability of supervisors and manag-ers in the manufacturing industry. Upcoming Course:- Special ist Courses 1) WSQ Certificate in Proc-ess Technology (Engineering Ser-vices) 2) WSQ Higher Certificate in Process Technology (Engineering Services) 3) Certified Process Indus-try Supervisor Course and Productiv-ity Improvement & Innovation Courses **Upon completion of the Integrated As-sessment Pathway (IAP), foreign workers are eligible to upgrade their current R2 Work Permit to R1 Work Permit.
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Forming of Forming of
New CommitteeNew Committee
Productivity Improvement Committee
Responding to the government’s call on Pro-ductivity Improvement, ASPRI joins in the na-tional effort to raise productivity among its members’ companies by forming the Produc-tivity Improvement Committee in May 2010. Headed by Mr. Francis Tay; Committee Member of ASPRI 8th Executive Council and Chairman of Manpower Capability Develop-ment Committee; it sets out to identify areas to improve productivity, upgrade capabilities and roll out viable initiatives with the help of relevant government agencies like SPRING and WDA. A consultant who has rich experi-ence in productivity improvement was en-gaged in the first discussion to brainstorm innovative initiatives for the industry.
Important Important Updates on Updates on
Government Government PoliciesPolicies
1) Dependency Ratio for Process Industry remains at 87.5% (1 local full-time worker: 7 foreign workers). 2) Man-Year Entitlement (MYE) (which refers to the total num-
ber of foreign workers a main contractor is entitled to employ, based on the
value of projects/contracts awarded by developers/owners) would be re-duced by 25% over 3 phases:- (a) by 5% w.e.f. 1 July 2010 (b) by 10% w.e.f. 1 July 2011 (c) by 10% w.e.f 1 July 2012 3) Levy Rates would be adjusted to: (a) $180 (Skilled Work Permit (WP) workers), $300
(Unskilled WP workers), $330 (Skilled WP work-ers - MYE Waiver) and $380 (Unskilled WP work-ers - MYE Waiver) w.e.f. 1 July 2011
(b) $200 (Skilled WP workers); $300 (Unskilled WP workers), $350 (Skilled WP workers - MYE Waiver) and $450 (Unskilled WP workers - MYE Waiver) w.e.f. 1 July 2012
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