BAC TRAINING
an enormous government investment in training is required

BAC Training is a relatively recent BAC initiative. It was created in April 2003 to specifically coordinate and administer a large two year STEP (Structured Training and Employment Project) and subsequently became responsible for the organisation's broader training needs. When outside funding ceased with the completion of the STEP contract, the department was reduced to one half time position resourced entirely by BAC.

DEWR requires Bawinanga to move 60 CDEP staff into non CDEP jobs in the 2006/07 financial year. This in turn requires an enormous government investment in training over the long term. Currently most CDEP workers have poor levels of literacy and lack many specific workplace skills.

The following structured training programs have taken place during the year: a firearm safety course to enable the rangers to apply for a shooter's licence; computer courses - basic computer operations for CDEP staff and Excel for all staff; tourism training for outstation traditional owners so they can better understand the requirements of the tourism industry; accredited land management units delivered through junior ranger camps, a joint school and ranger project; a two day management course for all BAC managers delivered by the Australian Institute of Management; training to tag and monitor the movements of crocodiles; and training to obtain a restricted coxswain's.