Training checklist

A training checklist is only useful when it is sized to the role, and most are a list of every course the company has ever run. This one works from what you type: the mandatory courses everyone in the role holds, the role-specific courses, the equipment or machine sign-offs, the hours each takes and the starters expected this quarter. It prints the items per new starter, the hours per starter, the sign-offs to record this quarter and the trainer cost, because a checklist without hours and a cost is a wish list.

Three kinds of item, and they are recorded differently

Mandatory courses are the same for everyone on site and usually carry a refresher period. Role-specific courses depend on the job and are the rows that differ between two people on the same matrix. Equipment sign-offs are a supervisor's signature that this person may use this machine, with no course behind it. The worksheet counts all three so the checklist is the length the role actually is, and Pro records each kind with the sign-off it needs.

The hours are what the first month costs

Thirteen items at two hours each is twenty-six hours a new starter is not producing, and at five starters a quarter it is a hundred and thirty hours of trainer time. The worksheet prints both so the quarter's training is planned as capacity rather than discovered on the floor, and the 30 60 90 plan on this site spreads those hours across the first three months.

The sign-off count is the record keeping load

Every item on every starter's checklist is a row someone has to sign and date, and the worksheet counts them. Sixty-five sign-offs a quarter on paper is a folder that will be incomplete by the audit; sixty-five rows in a record with the trainer's name on each is what the inspector reads. That count is the honest argument for keeping the record somewhere other than a drawer.