Addressing the skills for safety gap in Southeast Asia
Addressing the skills for safety gap in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia Skills Enhancement Programme (SEASEP)
A collaboration between Lloyd's Register Foundation and The Welding Institute (TWI).
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Duration
This project's duration was 2018 - 2025
Value of grant
£5,000,000
Partner info
TWI is one of the world’s foremost independent research and technology organisations, with expertise in materials joining and engineering processes.
Contact details
Tackling in-country skills shortages and reducing occupational fatalities by bringing engineering-related skills and education to disadvantaged and under-represented groups.
Find out more
Visit the SEASEP websiteOverview
In 2018, Lloyd's Register Foundation and The Welding Institute (TWI) collaborated on the Southeast Asia Skills Enhancement Programme (SEASEP), an initiative committed to strengthening engineering skills capacity in one of the most dangerous regions to work in the world. Training provided by SEASEP is helping improve safety standards and keeping workers safe in response to rapid urbanisation and investment in large-scale infrastructural projects throughout Southeast Asia.
Since the Foundation's grant was awarded, SEASEP has trained over 4,500 students in Indonesia, Thailand, India and the Philippines. A key aspect of this has been supporting disadvantaged and underrepresented groups entering the engineering workforce, including providing a 100% bursary for women engineers.
The programme has ambitions to train a further 6,000 engineers (taking the total number of Foundation-funded students to over 10,000) and accelerate the transition of graduates into safety-critical industries such as construction and maritime.
SEASEP training is aimed at those seeking a career in:
- Welding, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)
- Occupational Health and Safety (HSE)
- Blasting and Painting
- Plant Inspection
For more information on the courses available, please visit the SEASEP website.
Funding from Lloyd’s Register Foundation has certainly helped to change the lives of many students in the territories where the training is taking place. Phase two of the programme will build on lessons learned from the first four years and work with industry, government ministries and educational establishments to upskill SEASEP graduates, provide career development opportunities and ultimately reduce the number of occupational fatalities in a region where they have had such a profoundly negative impact.
Stephen Wisniewski Project Manager, SEASEP programme, TWI Ltd
