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APEC Guideline for High Quality Electric

Power Infrastructure
Training for O&M workers

Tokyo Electric Power Company – Fuel & Power, Inc.

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 Career paths to obtain professional O&M skills

各認定スケジュールOperation test: Level A Maintenance test: Level A

Maintenance course
(machine, electricity, control, fuel and
Simulator training Operation course law)

OJT OJT
Off-JT Off-JT
Lecture Lecture
Simulator training
Text Text

Operation test: Level B Maintenance test: Level B

Maintenance course
Simulator (machine, electricity, control, fuel and
training Operation course
law)
OJT
OJT
Off-JT
Off-JT
Lecture
Simulator Lecture
Text
training Text

Newly employed worker

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 Certification system for professional techniques and 2
skills
A system to certify a worker who meets a criterion (grade S, grade A and grade B)
set for the operation and the maintenance, respectively

Certification of operation and maintenance techniques

and skills

Grade S: Super Engineer

Grade A: 5-7 years’ experience

Grade B: 2-4 years’ experience

* Requirements for the certification are set for each grade

respectively
* Two types of exams: practical exam and written exam

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 Certification system for professional techniques and 3
skills (criteria)
Grade Criteria
S [Common to operation and maintenance]
 A worker takes responsibility for making suggestions to people within and outside a company
and technical judgements, passing on skills and techniques to younger generation, and
developing human resources in order to secure safety, enhance efficiency and improve the
quality in a specific field
A [Operation] [Maintenance]
 A worker can start and stop a unit, and judge  A worker can accomplish the following tasks
and cope with a high-level alarm action for main equipment in a special field
 A worker can cope with hard troubles of a  Routine overhaul, trial operation for
unit calculator adjustment and judgment on the outcome
 A worker can control special work in high  Emergency repairs for a minor trouble
places, oxygen-deficient places, etc.  Equipment diagnosis
 Standard supervision of construction work

B [Operation] [Maintenance]
 A worker can judge and cope with ordinary  A worker can accomplish the following tasks
handling, monitoring, operation and an alarm for auxiliary equipment in a special field
action  Routine overhaul, trial operation for
 A worker can start and stop auxiliary adjustment and judgment on the outcome
equipment  Emergency repairs for a minor trouble
 A worker can cope with simple troubles of a  Equipment diagnosis
unit calculator  Standard supervision of construction work
 A worker can control the safety and
operation for routine works

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 How to check a level of professional techniques and 4
skills (operation)
Levels required for workers engaged in the operation are classified according to the rank of workers,
varying from newly employed to senior worker, and matters the workers have to acquire are itemized for
control (self-check and check by a manager)
I Capability to
manage risks and N J
< Required levels: Grade S, Grade A crises M S

and Grade B > N (self) J (self)

Senior worker M (self) S (self)

(S)
II Response to the
Mid-level worker V Manual &
occurrence of
standards
(M) abnormality

Junior worker
(J)
Newly
employed (N)
Control of IV Work III Stable operation
control
progress data N J
(1) Patrol inspection M S

• Capability to manage risks and crises N (self) J (self)

M (self) S (self)
• Response to the occurrence of
(6) Others (2) Routine
abnormality inspection
• Work control
• Manual & standards
• Stable handling
(1) ...... (4) ...... (5) Response to (3) Normal
alarm handling
(2) ...... (5) ......
(3) ...... (6) ......
(4) Start & stoppage

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 How to check a level of professional techniques and 5
skills (maintenance)
Levels of techniques and skills required for supervision of construction work, design and estimation are
classified according to field of machinery (boiler, turbine), electricity, control and LNG, and matters the
workers have to acquire are itemized for control (self-check and check by a manager). In addition, workers
are also evaluated and controlled in terms of core techniques of machinery, electricity and control.

< Required levels: Grade S, Grade A A worker ( ) Average distribution ( )

and Grade B > Turbine facility: ...................
Core techniques
evaluation
Facilities

Introduction

Control of
• Basics for supervisors
(safety, groundbreaking,
progress data
construction, purchase, etc.)
• Supervision of a special field (main
equipment, auxiliary equipment)
• Supervision of each inspection and
maintenance work
(1) ...... (4) ...... Average distribution:
(2) ...... (5) ...... Dividing years of maintenance work
(3) ...... (6) ...... experience into some stages, and
evaluating workers according to the stage
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 Recommendation of the Guideline
[APEC Guideline for High Quality Electric Power Infrastructure: Training for O&M
workers (excerpt)]
 It is imperative to provide sufficient initial training as well as to formulate a mid to
long term training plan and develop the capability of the workers involved on a
daily basis
 It is important to prepare a training manual for O&M, train the workers based on
the manual, and prepare and create related manuals.

Off-JT OJT

Establish training system to enhance
techniques and skills, and awareness
required for operations
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Understand HRD needs from the gap between
workers’ capability and the requirements (the
level to reach), and develop human resources
systematically
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 Information
Human Resources Development Center, TEPCO Fuel ＆ Power, Incorporated accepts
trainees from abroad (Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Uzbekistan etc.)

Trainees (2016：domestic and overseas)

About 5800 participants, about 550 participants of them are
external (total annual number）

《Overseas－Acceptance of trainees》
 GTCC simulator training  Development training for
 Safety education maintenance instructors
 Development training for  Support of technique and
operation instructors skill competition

etc.

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