The results of the Russian National Professional Skills Contest among chemical laboratory assistants are announced. The event took place from April 11 to April 15 in Moscow.
8 Russian fuel, energy, and metallurgical companies participated in the contest.
It aims to find the best professionals, promote best practices and techniques, train professional skills and share experience and expertise.
Vladimir Korchagin (Zavod RETO JSC) took the 1st place in the nomination “The Best Specialist of Chemical Laboratory for Quality Control Of Oils 2022” with 214,7 points. 2nd place went to Andrey Ermakov (Kurgan Power Grid branch of SUENKO JSC) with 213.5 points. Yelena Bezrodnykh, a chemical analysis assistant of the fuel and oil analysis group at the chemical laboratory of the Shaturskaya GRES branch of Unipro PJSC, rounded out the top three. She had a perfect score of 213.1.
The challenge comprised three stages, where participants competed in the knowledge of the requirements of regulatory and technical documents, trained in practical skills of routine operations, first aid skills for the injured in an accident, as well as tried to reveal their proficiency and creativity as much as possible.
“This was my first time participating in an event of this kind, so the contest impressed me a lot. All the participants are high-level professionals. During the competition we were able to communicate and share professional experiences,” said Elena.