Periodic Needs and Job Analysis Updating

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of poor or improper performance of tasks. Facility personnel who

should be involved in analysis include experienced SMEs,

supervisors, management, qualified training staff, and as necessary,

facility engineering, safety, and other technical support staff. The

technical support staff can be especially helpful when new systems or

procedures are involved. Facility personnel involvement in analysis

helps ensure training decisions belong to facility personnel since the

results of analysis are used to design training that meets the needs of

the job incumbents and line management. The job incumbent should

be viewed as the customer and the analysis process as a method for

meeting customer requirements.

2.7.2 Periodic Needs and Job Analysis Updating

Task lists serve as the foundation for initial and continuing training

programs and must be kept up to date. The frequency of the update

can vary from as-needed to every two years, depending on the

number of changes that impact training (expected or actual) and

training organization procedures. Program-level needs analyses can

also be conducted on a periodic basis as part of program evaluation to

detect performance deficiencies before they lead to personnel errors.

2.7.3 Transition to Design Activities

The practices described in DOE/EP-0095, Guidelines for Job and Task

Analysis for DOE Nuclear Facilities, encourage the completion of task

analysis prior to starting the design phase. An alternative approach

that combines task analysis with the design and development of

training materials has also been found to be successful and efficient.

The time and expense of completing the task analysis before design

and development is avoided and training material can be developed

and ready for use sooner (and therefore more economically).

Accordingly, combining task analysis activities with design and

development activities is strongly encouraged whenever feasible.

2.8

Documentation

Documentation should be maintained that describes the activities of the

analysis phase. Written procedures and forms that support this