The workplace training compliance checklist
A 20-point self-assessment to help you find out whether you could prove your workplace training is compliant, right now, or only assume it. Covering:
- Coverage: whether the right people are trained, across contractors, temporary staff and new starters, and whether you can see who is overdue.
- Competence: whether the training was actually understood, and whether you could evidence it rather than just report attendance.
- Evidence: whether you could produce your full training records in minutes rather than days, without relying on one person's memory.
- Currency: whether your training keeps pace with changing duties, revised standards and changes in your own business.
Find out where you stand before anyone else asks
Most organizations believe their training is compliant. Far fewer could prove it at a moment's notice, and that difference is exactly what an auditor, a regulator, an insurer or a tribunal is interested in.
This checklist is built for compliance managers, health and safety leads, training and L&D managers, and anyone who would be the one answering when the question comes. It takes five to seven minutes to work through.
Whether you're preparing for an audit, inheriting a program you didn't build, or simply want to know where the gaps are, you'll come away with a clear view of what to fix first.
A gap you find is one you can fix. A gap an auditor finds is one you have to defend.
Work through 20 statements across coverage, competence, evidence and currency, and check only the ones true for your organization today, not the version you're working toward. There is no pass mark. Every box you cannot check is a gap in your ability to prove compliance, and the more that cluster in one section, the clearer your priority.
Coverage
Five statements on whether required training is mapped to roles and assigned automatically, whether your whole workforce is included, and whether you know today who is overdue.
Competence
Five statements on whether understanding is tested rather than assumed, whether content reflects the real work your people do, and whether you could show competence rather than attendance.
Evidence
Five statements on whether your records live in one place, update automatically, and could produce a complete audit trail this afternoon rather than in a few days' time.
Currency
Five statements on whether refreshers are tracked automatically and whether training is updated when duties change, standards are revised, or you add a site, role or process.
Download the checklist to find out if you could prove it, right now
Twenty statements, five to seven minutes, and a clear view of where your evidence would hold up.