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Meeting your training obligations

Permittees are responsible for ensuring all operators (including subcontractors) have completed mandatory training. Use the resources on this page to help your business stay on the right side of the regulations.

Support your workforce, protect your business

Apply this to everyone

Permittees are responsible for ensuring all workers, including permanent and casual staff and subcontractors, have completed mandatory training.

Know what’s required

While training might be a TAFE-run course, often it's simply a Toolbox Talk that permittees need to share. Explore the training resources across this site.

Keep training records

Keep a log of training completion for each worker (including permanent and casual staff, and subcontractors).

  

Check back for updates

As legislation changes, so too will training needs.

Revisit this website for updates

 

Mandatory training
What you need to know

View a list of mandatory training for permittees and operators working on state-owned native forestry in Queensland.

Please note, this list is current as of the time of production - see document footer for date.

Training Information

Training Information

  • Prosaw Australia delivers a range of forest industry qualifications

  • ForestFit delivers a training program and certification system

  • Training Australia is a joint initiative of Australian state and Territory governments, showing all nationally recognised training (NRT) and registered training organisations (RTOs)

  • Forest and Wood Products Training Package details all of Nationally Endorsed units of competency, skill sets and qualifications for the forest and timber industry

  • Skills Impact collaborates with industry, government and training partners to track trends in sectors such as forestry. They will be establishing a Jobs and Skills Council, Skills Insight that will deliver outcomes to support a responsive VET system and a skilled workforce

  • ForestWorks is an industry owned not-for-profit organisation offering services to suppor the skills development of the forest, wood, paper, timber and furnishing industries

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ABOUT US >>

The Queensland Native Forestry website has been created as part of the Native Forest Operations Capacity Building Project, delivered by Timber Queensland (TQ) with the support of the Queensland Government's Department of Primary Industries [DPI].

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By helping sales permittees, operators and contractors to understand what they need to know, our goal is to support industry in complying with native forest legislative and regulatory requirements. This website aims to support the future of the forestry industry, and the forests we work in. 
 

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