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DIRECTORY OF SINGAPORE PROCESS & CHEMICALS INDUSTRIES 2021/2022
IPI Connect tops Google
ranking
On 9 June 2020, IPI connect ranked #1 in Top Free apps – Trending, in business category, and #4 in Top Free apps – Trending, on Google’s Android Playstore.
This reflects the popularity of the app with our process migrant workers in Singapore and how frequently they use the app.
ASPRI continues
investing in e-learning
ASPRI has invested over $70,000 in new e-learning infrastructure to support continuous learning during Circuit Breaker.
• 42 E-courses rolled out through partnership with Bolster Safety, Swagelok Singapore, Nordic Flow Control and EDB.
• Benefitted more than 25,000 unique workers with over 70,000 e-training places.
• Clocked over 199,000 e-training hours.
How ASPRI Members
have benefitted
• More than 22,000 e-training places of Free COVID Awareness course administered. Direct saving for the PCM sector is equivalent to $1.65million.
• More than 10,000 e-training places of Free COVID Safe Management Officer course administered. Direct saving for the PCM sector is equivalent to $650,000.
• More than 800 e-training places of Free COVID Incident Response Management Plan course administered. Direct saving for the PCM sector is equivalent to $40,000.
Members have benefitted immensely from the free ASPRI-IPI COVID e-series, which has provided them with an equivalent of $2.34million worth of e-training for their workers.
ASPRI ManpowerConnect
About 200 users have tapped the ASPRI ManpowerConnect portal to look for Work Permit holders (WPHs) in the Process Sector since it was launched in the second half of 2020.
The portal, developed by ASPRI-IPI with the support of the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), has been designed to help facilitate matching of Work Permit holders within the Process Sector with potential employers, in view of extensive border and travel restrictions due to COVID-19. By using this free service, companies recruiting additional workers can save on search and recruitment expenses.
Employers may also make available on the portal any excess Process Sector WPHs that they wish to release to other companies that are experiencing a shortage of manpower.
By using the portal, they can transfer workers to other companies more quickly and save on repatriation costs, while giving the WPHs the opportunity to continue working in Singapore
Since 11 Aug 2020, ASPRI has partnered with MOM in a temporary scheme to help Process Sector companies hire existing PCM Work Permit holders (WPHs) who are in Singapore with the agreement of their current employers.
Furthermore, in April 2021 ASPRI expanded the scheme to allow member companies to recruit local workers from a posted list of candidates. The search is made easier as the postings are sort by categories, such as past industry work experience, qualification, skill set and expected salary, in line with the expectations of process sector employers.
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