Training a necessary evil?
People have said training is a pain in the drain, and a drain on the pocket book.
Have you ever stopped to think how important training is?
Sure there are regulations requiring some of your people to certify or recertify every year or so. But here's a hyperthetical question for you, if it wasn't regulated, or if you knew no one would issue a fine for not doing it, would you bother?
It seems strange that many companies hire people because they have experience but then, insist they are trained in 'our way of doing things'. While on the other hand, many companies rely on pretrained employees to carry out the work so they don't have to pay extra for it.
Training has a cost, sometimes it's a direct cost; course cost, travel, accomodation & food, lose of productive work time & travel time. It also has an indirect cost. What do mistakes and lack of knowledge cost, sometimes it's hard to quantify isn't it?
The thing to think about is you have a choice, either train them and they might leave which could seem like a waste of money, or you could not train them and have them stay, which could end up costing you even more. Not only finacially but emotionally too. Imagine one of your employees incompetence causes you to end up in court defending your attitude to not adequately train. How many of your customers would eagerly remove their business if they knew you didn't keep your people adequately trained.
It just makes good economic sense.
IAAE Canada wants to create training that matters. What training do you need?
