If you needed to get to work but you don’t know how to drive, would you get into a car with someone with good intentions but no license and driving experience? Would you hire an account with no experience to do your taxes or one who has done taxes his entire life? The answer to these two questions is, of course, a definite no. It would prove detrimental to you and your business to engage the services of unqualified professionals. Yet, that’s exactly the same thing that happens when maintenance or plant managers send untrained employees to perform tasks they have been poorly trained for.

All industrial employees must be trained if they are to be able to perform their jobs properly. When you work with an experienced industrial skills training company, beginning a new industrial training program for your department can be a lot easier than expected. In order to decide what needs to be done, you’ll need to assess the skills of your industrial employees before determining your training priorities. ITC Learning’s web based skills assessment will evaluate your employee’s skills to determine what needs to be improved. This will determine what your employees know as opposed to what they think they know. Each of your industrial employees will take our web based assessment to demonstrate their competence based on the criteria’s we’ve setup. For instance, if two of your employees are hydraulics technicians, then evaluating for welding skills is a waste of time. If one of your employees is in charge of electrical repairs then having them demonstrate their knowledge of electrical safety is important.

While it’s important to have one person who is fully trained and certified to perform a specific job, it also necessary to train other employees about the general basics of that job so they can step in to help out if that person needs help or is out sick. It’s best to have an independent company assess—such as ITC Learning—your employee’s skills to ensure that there is no conflict of interest. Training is not a program, it’s a process—that offers long term benefits to your employees and your company long after the training program is over. Providing proper training to your employees is always money well spent.

Most people know what’s good for them. We know it’s better to slow down at the yellow light than to speed right through. We know it’s better to pay attention to the road than to text or talk on the phone while driving. Yet we still multitask while operating a vehicle going 45 miles per hour or more although we know it’s not safe. We like to think we know what’s best good for us, but often times we don’t. So instead of making an excuse about why your company doesn’t need an industrial training program, you should consider the benefits.

Here are the two most common excuses for not having an industrial training program:

1. No time to develop and manage the program. You might believe you don’t have the time and energy to devote to an industrial training program, but ITC Learning offers a wide variety of training courses that once they’ve been started practically run themselves. If you choose ITC Learning’s products for your training needs, you don’t have to worry about writing and devising the different courses. Our industrial training courses have already been created and you simply need to let us know what type of training classes you need, and when you need it.

2. The belief that training will increase expenses. In fact, training is the best way to increase productivity and reduce accidents. Plus, by outsourcing your industrial training needs, you’re reducing the cost of sending your employees to classes off-site. With an in-house training program you can train more people, more often. Plus, having an industrial training program in place makes a lot of sense when you hire a lot of people in a short period of time. When companies fail to provide adequate training and education, the results can be disastrous for the equipment, employee morale, and the company.