Employer Responsibilities

To get the results you want from training your staff, it makes sense be actively involved in reviewing progress and supporting your staff as they learn.

To make everyone’s obligations clear the National Training Information Service has documented the responsibilities that the Employer, the Employee and the RTO must adhere to. These are listed below for your information.

The Employer will:

• Provide the opportunity for the participant to be withdrawn from routine work duties for a minimum of 3 hours per week for planned training
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure the participant be instructed in workplace skills and knowledge (training) and assessed in accordance with the training plan
• Meet all relevant costs associated with any on the job training
• ensure the participant receives the necessary supervision by a suitably qualified person if undergoing instruction and training in the workplace
• Provide all necessary assistance to Pinnacle Training Solutions to meet quality assurance arrangements required by Pinnacle Training Solutions, including supporting the participant in gathering evidence of workplace performance
• Complete all forms and provide relevant information to Pinnacle Training Solutions as requested
• Have in place an occupational health and safety policy and advise the participant of the obligations of the policy.

The Participant will:

• Accept all instruction and training as detailed in the training plan to achieve competence
• Make all reasonable efforts to acquire the skills and knowledge indicated in the training plan and to maintain satisfactory progress
• Regularly submit any required evidence of on the job workplace performance and make all reasonable efforts to maintain copies of records of both on and off the job training
• Attend any required off the job training with Pinnacle Training Solutions at its nominated location
• Comply with the employer’s and statutory occupational health and safety requirements governing the traineeship.
• Complete all forms and provide relevant information to Pinnacle Training Solutions as requested.

The RTO will:

• Conduct, on request, a pre-training review of current competencies of a participant including literacy and numeracy
• Prepare and sign in conjunction with the participant and employer, a training plan determined by the qualification to be attained and customised (as required) for the needs of the participant and employer
• Ensure that all off the job training and assessment is undertaken by appropriately qualified staff in accordance with the requirements of the training plan
• Have in place an occupational health and safety policy and advise the participant of the obligations of the policy
• Provide on request or at cancellation of a training contract, Statements of Attainment which contain details of the units of competence within the training plan and the trainees’ results of training undertaken.