My starting point would be to find out what employees you have and what tasks they will be undertaking, how can you know what to train someone on without knowing what they do. Is there any mandatory training required by each group of employees, if yes, do they currently hold the correct training certificates? or knowledge? Is there any training that the employees themselves feel that they require to do there job in a safer, healthier manner? Peter

I think you also need to take a look at competencies. I recently assisted in over hauling the way we conduct training. Starting by looking at the task and compiling the competencies/skills needed for that and then taking the same approach with the workers, listing off all their current training and qualifications. I now have 2 libraries, one for people and one for tasks. It makes it very easy to match skilled workers to jobs and helps to make sure that we always have the best person on site, in addition if you find a task requires certain skills that none of your workers have you can get a sub contractor. I was surprised to see the number of people working on tasks they were not trained/qualified to do.