Fencing and Gate Industry

The intention of this project is to develop training products to support fencing and gate workers across the key areas of operation, such as commercial, residential, rural and security fencing.

Technical Committee Technical Committee members will provide expert advice, based on evidence, across educational and/or technical knowledge to advise Build Skills on any impact on learners and possible implementation issues.

We are now inviting applications to be a member of the Technical Committee for the Fencing and Gate Industry Project. Please complete the following form.

Applications for the Technical Committee close on Friday 10 July 2026.

The Terms of Reference for this project can be found here.

Application for Technical Committee Membership can be found here.

The first Technical Committee meeting will be held in July 26. In the Training Product Development phase, there could be up to 4 Technical Committee meetings. Meetings will be for a duration of 2-4 hours and will be held through a combination of face-to-face and online formats.

The first draft training products will be published on our website for public consultation in May 27, and feedback. Further to this, there will be two (2) online public consultations.

From July 27 the Technical Committee will be required to meet again, and conduct further revisions to the draft training products, based on the feedback received through public consultation.

The final draft training products will be sent to Commonwealth and State/Territory Senior Responsible Officers in September 27.

The finalisation and submission of the training products to the Assurance Body is proposed to be made in October 27. Subsequently, implementation and promotion of the new training products will commence in February 28.

Please note these dates may be subject to change throughout the project.

BuildSkills has established a consultation strategy that identifies key stakeholders and outlines mechanisms for engaging with them during the drafting of training products. This strategy includes the management of public consultations on the drafted products and the processing of feedback received.

The consultation methods employed by BuildSkills consist of in-person and virtual meetings, online surveys, focus groups, industry workshops, and feedback submitted through the website, or via email.

BuildSkills will engage the following stakeholders throughout the training product development process.

Please refer to the Project Overview & Consultation Strategy document for more information on our approach to consultation. Our strategy may be amended as per direction provided by the Technical Committee at the first Technical Committee meeting in July 2026.

We have commenced engagement with our industry to develop draft training products that are now ready for feedback.

The impacted training products include:

Through this process a new draft qualification, skill sets, and new units of competency to replace the units above and meet the current and emerging skills of insulation installation and inspection. We are seeking your feedback and advice on the approach taken and in particular the development of training products.

This summary details the changes made to the training products, outlining the reasons for these changes and provides the mapping information.

BuildSkills concluded a series of webinars aimed at keeping industry stakeholders informed about the proposed amendments to our training products. During these sessions, we provided an overview of the changes and outlined how participants could submit their feedback through our consultation channels.

We thank everyone who participated. We are currently assessing the valuable feedback received and compiling insights to guide our next steps. Your input is invaluable as we work towards improving our training products.

BuildSkills has reviewed the feedback received.

The feedback we received has been invaluable in guiding our next steps. We appreciate your insights and have made adjustments to ensure that the final products reflect the broad consensus of our stakeholders.

The Summary of Change document has been updated to reflect the modifications made. The updated document can be downloaded here.

The Consultation log has been updated reflect the feedback received and to include a high-level summary. The Log can be downloaded here.

The following documents have been provided to the Training Package Assurance Body.

The Training Package Assurance Body is evaluating these training package products to ensure they comply with the Training Package Organising Framework (TPOF). Once they are satisfied with the assessment, the Training Package Assurance Body will recommend that the draft training products for this project be endorsed by the Skills Ministers.