Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 839 - BUREAU OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES › Division 11 - APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING COUNCIL › Section 839-011-0084 - Approval of New Committees and Standards

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) Additional committees or standards in an
			 area already served by an existing committee in the same trade, craft or
			 occupation shall be established in the same manner as any other local
			 committee.
(2) All employers and
			 their qualified employees shall be afforded the opportunity to participate, on
			 a non-discriminatory basis, in existing programs.
(3) The Council and the Apprenticeship and
			 Training Division of the Bureau of Labor and Industries will approve the
			 creation of a new local committee or new standards for an existing committee
			 only if the applicant for the new program or new standards can first
			 demonstrate to the Council and the Division, by a preponderance of evidence,
			 that the application is in conformity with the following requirements:
(a) The applicant shall submit documentation
			 showing committee composition pursuant to ORS chapter 660.135, .145.
(b) The applicant shall submit standards in a
			 format approved by the Council that meet or exceed any existing statewide
			 minimum guideline standards for the occupation. Where no state guideline
			 standards exist, proposed standards shall meet or exceed national guideline
			 standards approved by the federal Office of Apprenticeship. Where no state or
			 national guideline standards exist, standards will be approved at the
			 discretion of the Council and the Division when the proposed occupation is
			 clearly identified and commonly recognized throughout an industry.
(A) The term of apprenticeship for an
			 individual apprentice may be measured through the completion of the industry
			 standard for on-the-job learning (at least two thousand hours) (time-based
			 approach), the attainment of competency (competency-based approach), or a blend
			 of the time-based and competency-based approaches (hybrid approach).
(B) A statement of the number of hours to be
			 spent by the apprentice in work and the number of hours to be spent in
			 related/supplemental instruction. For competency based and hybrid models, the
			 program standards must specifically address how on-the-job learning will be
			 integrated into the program, describe competencies and how such competencies
			 will be measured, and identify an appropriate means of testing and evaluation
			 for such competencies.
(C) The
			 time-based approach measures skill acquisition through the individual
			 apprentice's completion of at least two thousand hours of on-the-job learning
			 as described in a work process schedule.
(D) The competency-based approach measures
			 skill acquisition through the individual apprentice's successful demonstration
			 of acquired skills and knowledge, as verified by the program. Programs
			 utilizing this approach must still require apprentices to complete an
			 on-the-job learning component of registered apprenticeship. The program
			 standards must address how on-the-job learning will be integrated into the
			 program, describe competencies, and identify an appropriate means of testing
			 and evaluation for such competencies.
(E) The hybrid approach measures the
			 individual apprentice's skill acquisition through a combination of specified
			 minimum number of hours of on-the-job learning and the successful demonstration
			 of competency as described in a work process schedule.
(c) The applicant shall submit an
			 administration plan that includes:
(A)
			 Written designation of the program administrator;
(B) Documented assurances that the committee
			 will be adequately funded to support its administration and the presentation of
			 related instruction;
(C) A written
			 statement that details all costs to apprentices (including instruction, books,
			 tuition); and
(D) Assurances that
			 training agents and prospective training agents will be provided with a written
			 statement of costs for program participation.
(d) The applicant must demonstrate the
			 ability to track required on-the-job training, related and supplemental
			 training and affirmative action information (i.e., work progress reports,
			 apprentice/trainee rotation system, employer's apprentice/trainee evaluation
			 forms, grading sheets, applicant logs) and provide the Council with copies of
			 the forms and documents that will be used to track such information.
(e) The applicant shall submit a plan
			 detailing how the committee will ensure that participating employers will
			 provide work in all areas covered by the program standards (ORS chapter
			 660.137(5)), including:
(A) Training in all
			 counties listed in proposed geographical area;
(B) Training in all work processes set forth
			 in the standards;
(C) Committee
			 expectations of supervising journey workers and a plan for the supervision of
			 apprentices/trainees in the ratio set forth in the standards (ORS chapter
			 660.126(1)(c), (f));
(D) Training
			 agent qualifications and duties (ORS Chapter 660.137(5)); and
(E) A plan for training participating
			 employers on their duties and responsibilities.
(f) The applicant shall submit a complete
			 related training curriculum, including instructor qualifications, class
			 outlines and expected competencies, grading procedures and completion criteria.
			 This submission shall include:
(A) An
			 explanation of the curriculum delivery method and a description of the related
			 training facilities;
(B)
			 Certification of the curriculum and instructional delivery plan by either a
			 state education certifying authority or nationally recognized industry
			 association (ORS Chapter 660.137(2)(c), .126(1)(j), .157); and
(C) Assurances that classroom and related
			 instruction can be delivered throughout the geographic area. The applicant must
			 submit a contract or other documentation demonstrating that actual
			 instructional resources are in place. The committee's geographic area must be
			 one that can be reasonably served by the committee with respect to employers
			 and the location of the related training services (ORS Chapter 660.126(1)(a)).
(D) Assurances that instructors
			 meet the Oregon Department of Education or Office of Community Colleges and
			 Workforce Development requirements for vocational-technical instructors or are
			 subject matter experts, defined as an individual, such as a journey worker, who
			 is recognized within an industry as having expertise in a specific occupation.
			 If the instructor is a subject matter expert, the submission must include
			 assurances that the instructor has or will have had training in teaching
			 techniques and adult learning styles, which may occur before or within nine (9)
			 months after the apprenticeship instructor has started to provide the related
			 technical instruction.
(g) The applicant must submit operating
			 policies and procedures and assurances that the program will be operated in
			 accordance with the same; and
(h)
			 The applicant shall submit a plan to recruit, evaluate and select
			 apprentice/trainee applicants throughout the proposed geographic area,
			 including an application form that meets Council requirements.