For training managers

What a training manager needs from us

The engineering is the easy part to evaluate. This page is the rest of it — the paperwork, the records and the procurement detail you need before you can raise a requisition.

The syllabus

Published openly, chapter by chapter, on the courses page and on the course detail page. Nothing is withheld until after you commit.

Send us your competency framework and we will map the syllabus against it rather than leaving you to reverse-engineer the fit.

Duration, stated plainly

HT I — Executive and Project Briefing: 4 contact hours
HT II — Engineering Workshop: 8 contact hours
HT III — Field Certification: two days, 10 contact hours

One contact hour of qualifying instruction is generally counted as one professional development hour, so the two-day certification corresponds to 10 PDH, or 1 CEU by the standard ten-hour conversion.

Most state engineering boards do not require the provider to be accredited or board-approved for a technical course to count. Acceptance is nonetheless your board’s or your employer’s determination, not ours. We state subject, date and hours accurately so the claim can be made and supported under audit.

What lands in your training file

A certificate of completion per attendee, naming the course, the date, the contact hours and the instructor
An attendance roster for the group
The syllabus as delivered
Assessment outcomes, where you have asked us to assess. A written test is not a standard part of the courses; where your framework requires one we build it from the asterisked problems of Appendix E and return the marked outcomes

Where it sits against operator qualification

This is professional training that supports your OQ program. It is not an OQ evaluation and does not qualify anyone on a covered task under 49 CFR Part 192 Subpart N or Part 195 Subpart G.

Whatever system you run qualification through, this sits alongside it. If your framework needs the distinction stated in writing for an auditor, ask and we will put it in the proposal.

Procurement

The training arm is registered under NAICS 611430, professional and management development training — a classification most testing contractors do not carry, and one that matters when a requisition has to be coded correctly.

Courses are quoted per group rather than per seat, because the price depends on format, headcount and whether we travel. Ask and we will provide whatever your supplier onboarding needs.

Purchase ordersThe enquiry form has a PO number field for organisations that require one before work is scheduled. If your process needs a quotation first, say so in the notes and we will send one.

Nine questions worth asking any provider

We wrote them down, including the ones that are awkward for us: Nine questions a training department should ask any technical provider →

Standing noteThis is educational reference material, not engineering advice. Regulations are revised continually; the editions in force at the time of a project govern, and every project requires its own qualified engineering analysis and the operator’s governing specifications.

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