Top levels of industry wanted better training for its frontline workers! With a journeyman certificate or a record book, you can easily communicate your skills and experience with new supervisors or potential employers. The Rig Tech trade will:
  • improve safety through better training.
  • improve industry's ability to attract new employees.
  • establish a standard method for assessing competency.
  • ensure employees of all companies are provided with equal training.
  • ensure industry training keeps pace with technology.
  • ensure all companies adhere to a training standard, regardless of industry's cycles.


 Industry traditionally relied on informal on-the-job training, with brief safety training courses to pass on skills to junior employees. But there were drawbacks to this approach. As long as industry used an informal training structure, the public misunderstood just how much knowledge and skill drillers, derrickhands and motorhands need to get this job done. There was a perception that the best career a drilling rig offered was one of continuous unskilled labour.

Because of trade designation, industry can raise its profile as a career of choice to the next generation of tradespeople.