Chile. A total of 91 new workers in the refrigeration and air conditioning sector were recently certified at the southern headquarters of INACAP, after the certification ceremony of labor skills with ChileValora standard.
The workers were specifically certified in the profiles of Installer and Maintainer of Commercial Air Conditioning Systems; Installer and Maintainer of Industrial Air Conditioning Systems; Installer and Maintainer of Commercial Refrigeration Systems; and Installer and Maintainer of Industrial Refrigeration Systems.
The activity was attended by Paloma Toranzos, Head of the Governance and Sustainable Development Program of UNDP in Chile; Claudia Marabolí, Coordinator of the Ozone Unit of the Ministry of the Environment; Claudia Álvarez, Assistant of the Ozone Unit of the Ministry of the Environment; Juan Ricardo Abara, Executive Secretary of the Chilean Chamber of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning; Klaus-Peter Schmidt, Director of the Chilean Chamber of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning; among others.
The development of this evaluation and certification process was possible thanks to the tripartite dialogue that integrates the visions of workers, employers and State agencies, for the strengthening of the capacities of the sector's workforce, an unavoidable factor to enhance the productivity of companies and labor mobility.
In the activity, the Executive Secretary of the CChRyC, Juan Ricardo Abara, stressed that "this certification gives them a differentiating curricular weight, which found in the certification the opportunity to give a legal framework to their knowledge and skills, in addition to delivering a true contribution to the productivity of the refrigeration and air conditioning sector".
It should be noted that the CChRyC together with ChileValora promote and actively work to standardize the skills that those who work in the sector must possess; at the same time to develop a skills framework relevant to the reality of the labour market. Always with the view that one of the challenges of the CChCyR is that in the coming years the regulations and certification will be mandatory.
Paloma Toranzos, head of UNDP's Governance and Sustainable Development Program in Chile, congratulated the recent certificates emphasizing that "with this certification they become an example of how Chile moves towards a more sustainable and inclusive country."
