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Course in Explosive Product Assurance

Qualification code: 76833
Duration: 6 Months
Language medium: English

Target group:

The explosives and armaments industry (including commercial, arms manufacturing, military, police, mining, structural engineering and explosives regulatory sectors)

''All students wishing to register for the Short Learning Programmes in Explosives have to be employed in the explosives industry''

Course leader details:

Mrs Magdel van Heerden
Department of Business Management
Tel: 012 429 4370
E-mail: legrams@unisa.ac.za

Mrs Rachelle Reeler
Department of Business Management
Tel: 012 429 2057
E-mail: deysert@unisa.ac.za

Programme administrator:

Admin Officer: Lyndsey Lourie
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
Christiaan De Wet Drive, Florida, Johannesburg
Tswelopele Building 3rd floor Room 15
Tel: 011 471 2747
Email address: lourilc@unisa.ac.za

Purpose statement:

To apply elementary explosives product assurance during processes throughout the life cycle of explosives products and to ensure students are able to execute product assurance plans, apply principles of business improvement processes and solve management problems in the explosives industry.

Modules:

CICMADP - Measurement and Analysis of Data for Process Improvement

Content: Populations and samples. Variation Sampling distributions Data analysis Measure and calculate improvement

CIMIPDL - Managing Improvements Projects During the Life Cycle of Explosives Products

Content: This module covers the practical skills required to operate, maintain and manage the following: Planning, implementation and management of complaints handling processes. Planning implementation and management of product improvement processes. The use of root cause analysis in investigating explosives related problems over the product life cycle. The use of different tools for continual improvement in the explosives industry.

CITMRER - The Management of Risk in Explosives Related Processes and Projects

Content: The use of different risk assessment procedures in explosives related processes. The steps to a comprehensive mitigation analysis and implementation. Good explosives practice