The aim of this guideline is to promote recognition of qualifications, competencies, authorisations, refresher training and work skills across jurisdictional boundaries.

Providing a greater opportunity for gas workers and flexibility for gas network operators, the guideline seeks to facilitate national consistency and mobility of personnel across boundaries within the gas supply industry.

These guidelines and administrative principles also support the targeted outcomes of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Skills Taskforce formed in 2005, which operates under the auspices of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

The objective of these guidelines and administrative principles are to:

- Support the management of safety in the gas supply industry. - Promote the safety of workers engaged to work on a gas network. - Encourage and recognise nationally consistent practices that: - Promote ongoing development of the gas supply industry training and skills structure, in line with industry needs. - Encourage a drive towards commonalities in training standards for qualifications, competencies, refresher training and authorisations including that which may not be covered by national training packages. - Provide a consistent method for maintenance of a worker’s records. - Provide a mechanism to readily identify the skills of workers. - Provide a mechanism for determining currency of refresher training during field audits. - Provide a mechanism to record the currency of competence for a person to work on gas networks. - Encourage individuals to be responsible for ensuring the currency and validity of their qualifications, competencies, refresher training and authorisations. - Provide transportability of individuals' qualifications, competencies, refresher training and authorisations between network operators and their contractors across jurisdictions.

ENA plans to monitor the use and impact of the guidelines and administrative principles and subsequently may seek to review and make amendments as may be appropriate from time to time.

ENA DOC 020 - 2007 National Gas Supply Industry Passport is available as a PDF and is linked from the ENA homepage: www.ena.asn.au