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TRAINING FOR REALITY
IT SEEMS SENSIBLE to assume that all training should aim to ensure that students are properly equipped with the knowledge and skills
not always deliver the desired outcomes. Time after time, accidents and incidents are put down to poor training or a lack of training
to be discharging other responsibilities in accordance with the requirements. So the idea of ‘competency-based training and assessment’ (CBTA) is really nothing new: all it does is to offer a framework and format to ensure that training, effectively delivered, provides those desired outcomes and that the student, at the end of the training process, is indeed properly equipped to carry out the tasks for which he or she is responsible. Nonetheless, when the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) announced a few years ago that it was planning to introduce CBTA concepts to cover the air transport
they need to carry out their responsibilities. That is the case whatever the trainee is doing, whether it is refilling the coffee machine at Starbucks or packaging dangerous goods for shipment. There has, though, long been a feeling that training in the dangerous goods arena does
altogether. There is a suspicion that some operators in the supply chain see training as an unwelcome cost or simply a box-ticking exercise. We also know that enforcement officials, when inspecting facilities, often ask first for training records. If those are complete and up to date, the facility in question is likely
of dangerous goods – expanding on existing CBTA approaches in other areas of air transport – it aroused consternation in many quarters. Operators along the chain feared added costs and existing training providers were alert to the fact that they would need to re-tool their training programmes.
CBTA • COMPETENCY-BASED TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT IS COMING FAST. IATA HAS SOME GUIDANCE AND SERVICES TO OFFER TO HELP THE AIR TRANSPORT INDUSTRY MEET THE DEADLINE
HCB MONTHLY | SEPTEMBER 2020
