Evaluator Qualifications.

DOE-STD-1070-94

Training and qualification programs require a significant investment in equipment, materials,

and personnel resources. Evaluations of a training program's effectiveness in producing

competent employees are conducted to ensure that training is being conducted in a

consistent, cost effective, and efficient manner. Other reasons for training program

evaluations include the need to determine:

program strengths and weaknesses;

if worker performance has improved;

if program content matches current job needs; and

if corrective actions are needed to improve program effectiveness.

This standard provides objectives and criteria that promote consistent evaluations and

therefore consistent results. For many years, evaluations of DOE training programs have

been conducted by various organizations and the results have not always been consistent

primarily because either different criteria were used as the basis for each evaluation or the

criteria that was used was unknown by the organization being evaluated. As a result, DOE

Management and Operating contractors have been tasked with resolving findings and

recommendations generated by these evaluations that, at times, were contradictory or

untraceable to existing requirements. A major benefit of using the objectives and criteria in

this standard is consistent evaluations, which will result in greater efficiency and consistency

when improvements to training programs are implemented.

5.2 Evaluator Qualifications. DOE field organizations should establish implementing

procedures for the evaluation of nuclear facility training and qualification programs. The

implementing procedures should include standards for evaluator technical qualifications and

clearly define responsibilities for the preparation, conduct, reporting, and tracking of training

program evaluations. The field organization should establish a schedule for evaluating

nuclear facility training programs that is consistent with DOE orders and directives.