Administration of Training Activities

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5.0 ADMINISTRATION OF TRAINING ACTIVITIES

Qualified personnel are vital to facility safety and reliability. To develop qualified personnel, the training

staff should emphasize analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of

training and qualification activities for facility personnel. Facilities should periodically evaluate and

revise training programs due to changes in standards, technology, procedures, requirements, job

assignments, and qualifications of new personnel.

5.1 Training Mission, Goals, and Objectives

The training organization should have a mission with clearly-written goals and supporting objectives that

establish the required elements of the training system. The training mission and philosophy should be

consistent with facility commitments and policies and should apply to all organizations that share

responsibility for training. Long-term goals, objectives, and policies necessary to accomplish the

training mission should be clearly defined, published, and distributed to all organizations that contribute

to their accomplishment. The training mission, goals, objectives, and policies should be reviewed

periodically and updated as necessary to reflect changing needs.

Overall training objectives or goals should be developed by the training organization with input from the

appropriate line managers. The objectives should be specific, clearly-stated, and results-oriented such

that their accomplishment can be measured. The number of developed objectives should be a

manageable amount. Training objectives should be reviewed in a periodic self-assessment and any

weaknesses in the methods should be revised.

The following is a partial listing of training objectives that might be used for a training program:

Develop and provide quality performance-based initial and continuing training to prepare

personnel to perform duties in a safe and reliable manner.

Develop and provide initial and continuing training to subcontract personnel who support facility

operation and outside agencies used to assist during site emergencies.

Assist line management in ensuring that subcontract personnel are qualified and their use does

not result in degraded facility safety or reliability.

Establish and maintain a training organization staffed with qualified personnel who are capable

of accomplishing their assigned tasks.

Provide the settings, equipment, and materials necessary for effective support of training

activities.

Assist the line organization in the training and qualification of facility personnel.

Provide training that meets the needs of facility personnel.

Encourage line managers to take responsibility for training program content and oversight with

assistance from the training organization.

Develop and provide a mechanism to identify and analyze performance problems. Review

facility and industry operating experience and training trends (e.g., continued team performance

weaknesses during facility walkthroughs) to identify the need for training program changes or

improvements.

Routinely evaluate training effectiveness and correct identified weaknesses.