Planning company training: needs, objectives, sign-offs and checking it worked
For anyone who builds training for their own team: work out what training people actually need by comparing the job with current skills, set priorities, write objectives that say what the person will do, under what conditions and to what standard, choose methods (including hands-on practice and observed sign-offs), and check afterwards that people are working as trained. Uses the HSE five-step approach and OSHA's guidance on objectives and evaluation as reference points; your organization's own procedures govern.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 45 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 3 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Identify training needs by comparing the skills a task requires with people's current skills and recent incidents
- Prioritize training using risk, numbers affected, new starters, job changes and new equipment
- Write measurable objectives that state the action, the conditions and the acceptable standard
- Choose between a knowledge check and an observed practical sign-off for a given outcome
- Plan how to check that training worked, including whether people actually work as trained
- Decide when refresher or update training is needed after changes, evaluations or long gaps
Course outline
- 1.Planning company training that worksVideo · 2 min
- 2.What training does the team actually need?Lesson · 15 min
- 3.Objectives you can measure, and the right way to assess themLesson · 15 min
- 4.Did it work? Checking, refreshing and recordingLesson · 15 min
- 5.Planning company training: needs, objectives, sign-offs and checking it worked: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 18 questions
- 6.Final exam10 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
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