Standards & Certification
Skill Standards
The Skills for the Future Project was designed to develop skill standards and profiles for key occupations within the main production areas that comprise the printing process: prepress, press, bindery and finishing.
In each process area, three types of skill standards were developed: basic skills, core skills and operational skills.
Basic skills are essential to all occupations. They include: reading, writing, mathematical skills, interactive communication, planning and organizing, problem solving, decision making and computer literacy. Basic skills will likely be consistent for all process areas.
Core skills cover those elements that comprise a broad-based knowledge of the industry. For the most part, some core skills will cut across process areas, although some may be more relevant to a particular process area. Core skills include: teamwork, health and safety, printing processes, workflow process and control, quality assurance and client service.
Operating skills relate to specific operating functions within a process area. A function is defined as a set of related work activities organized in either chronological or operational order that often cut across occupations. In other words, functions are not highly specific job tasks, but groups of related activities that often cut across job titles. As an example, for the press process area, operating skills include such basic operations as preparing ink and inking systems, monitoring colour quality and performing wash-up, as well as operating skills that pertain to a particular type of printing such as sheetfed, web, flexographic or digital.
In addition to the Skill Standards, profiles of key occupations were also developed that outline what is required of the worker in a specific job, the availability of similar jobs in Canada and the kind of education and personal attributes that best contribute to success in that occupation.
SKILL STANDARDS
Prepress : Fit to Print: Your guide to National Prepress Skill Standards. Download
Colour Specialist: Fit to Print: Your guide to National Skill Standard Download
Output Specialist: Fit to Print: Your guide to National Skill Standards Download
Bindery: Fit to Print: Your guide to National Bindery Skill Standards. Download
Finishing: Fit to Print: Your Guide to National Finishing Skill Standards Download
Press: Fit To Print: Your Guide to National Press Skill Standards. Download
Executive Summary - Fit To Print: Your Guide to National Press Skill Standards.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILES
Prepress Operator
Colour Specialist
Output Specialist
Sheetfed Press Operator
Web Offset Press Operator
Flexo Press Operator
Digital Press Operator
Bindery Operator
Finishing Operator
To order print copies of the National Skill Documents or Occupation Profiles, please print and return the order form.
