Electrical Connection Winter 2015

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INDUSTRY NEWS
FREE TRAINING APP FOR QLD TRADIES
Construction Skills Queensland (CSQ) has launched myCSQ, a new app which lets
Queensland tradies keep track of their careers and work experience from their phones.
The myCSQ App is
available for free download
from iTunes and Android stores, and
offers a range of features to help
Tradies track their training and build
their resumes using their phone.
The App means tradies and
apprentices can capture their work
experience on the go, recording
details from each job site straight to
their phone.
With the touch of a button,
they can send a resume to
prospective employers, request an
endorsement and tag their status,
skills and location.
In addition to career management
tools, myCSQ allows Tradies to share
information and connect with each other.
The App’s news feed and events calendar
will help keep building and construction workers up
to date with the latest industry developments and trends.
For more information about the myCSQ app visit www.csq.
or call 1800 798 488.
NEW STANDARD FOR
PATIENT AREAS
A new amendment for AS/NZS
3003:2011 Electrical installations –
Patient areas has been released.
The purpose of this Standard is
to specify special requirements for
electrical installations in patient areas.
These requirements are additional to
those specified in AS/NZS 3000.
It sets out requirements for new
electrical installations and for
alterations, additions and repairs
of existing electrical installations in
patient areas.
To download a free copy of the
Standard, visit
CORNING COMPLETES
ACQUISITION OF
SAMSUNG’S FIBRE
OPTICS BUSINESS
Corning Incorporated has announced
that it has completed the previously
announced acquisition of Samsung
Electronics’ fibre optics business.
Corning will integrate Samsung’s fibre
optics business, with manufacturing
facilities in Gumi, South Korea and
Hainan, China, into the Corning Optical
Communications business segment.
The acquisition augments Corning’s
market access and enhances its broad
portfolio of optical communications
products in Asia.
AFL ACQUIRES AFC
AFL has announced it’s acquisition of
AFC Group, a manufacturer, designer
and integrator of fibre optic and copper
communication solutions with operations
in Australia, NZ and Hong Kong. AFC
will join the AFL family, expanding the
company’s global offering of solutions to
the telecommunications, infrastructure,
enterprise and industrial markets.
AFL’s product portfolio includes
fibre optic cable, transmission and
substation accessories, outside plant
equipment, connectors, fusion splicers,
test equipment and training. AFL has
operations in the US, Mexico, Canada,
Europe, Asia and Australia. The company
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujikura
Ltd of Japan.
MATTHEW TOPS
THE STATE
Matthew Skelton, a specialist
technician with Snowy Hydro, has
received the Theo Baitch Memorial
Prize Fund Award as the top
performing Diploma of Electrical
Engineering student across TAFE
NSW. He was also announced as
the winner of the Riverina Institute
Electrotechnology Excellence Award.
Beginning a Certificate IV in Electrical
– Instrumentation in 2011, Matthew,
then a Hydro Maintainer-Electrical, was
assisting in the modernisation of plant
controls built in the mid-1960s.
“New instrumentation was being
installed and I wanted to gain a
greater understanding of how it
worked,” he says.
“Many of the subjects in the
Certificate IV counted towards the
Diploma, which I subsequently
enrolled in to build on my learnings
and this helped me into the role of
specialist technician.”