National On Site Training (NOST) provides assessment only partnership with clients. These partnerships imply the following:
* Client organisations provide their own training and assessment to their own personnel via internal processes.
* NOST certifies this internal training and assessment by providing nationally recognised statements of attainment and qualifications to the Client's personnel.
Details of the process include the following points:
- Suitably qualified client assessors conduct assessments in the workplace.
- Client assessors use appropriate assessment tools and processes.
- NOST conducts audits to ensure:
- Assessors are suitably qualified, and continue to meet Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) requirements.
- The implementation of appropriate assessment processes.
- Assessment tools used meet the requirements of each competency assessed in the relevant Training Package.
- NOST provides recommendations for improvements (where necessary). These recommendations are based on the audit results.
- NOST, in conjunction with the client, may implement these improvements.
A partnership arrangement between a client organisation and NOST will achieve the following outcomes:
- The initial implementation of a consistent assessment system providing consistent quality outcomes for the client at the levels of performance specified in the relevant Training Package.
- Once consistency has been achieved, the opportunity to build selected improvements into the training and assessment system that will assist the client to achieve site specific corporate goals of improvements to quality and productivity above and beyond the minimum standards of the Training Package.
- An assessment system that assists the client to ensure its workforce has the necessary skills and knowledge to work safely and efficiently.
- The awarding of Nationally recognised Statements of Attainment, and Statements of Qualification (where applicable) to client personnel, once competency is achieved.
- Assessment systems which ensure compliance with the AQTF and provide a defence in depth against common law and other legal actions.
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