February 3, 2015
Accreditation of training programmes provides a sound benchmark against which training can be reviewed, however this does and should not exclude any training programmes from rigorous, systematic and independent evaluations. End user utility has to be the final arbiter of training effectiveness and not accreditation in purely educational terms.Violence and aggression management training for trainers and managers:
A national evaluation of the training provision in healthcare settings
Health and Safety Executive Research Report 440, 2006
Training commissioners would do well to focus on 'end user utility' and not simply rely on accreditation as a marker for the quality, appropriateness or relevance of any given training package. The Health and Safety Executive itself says so, and it is probable that they would be the final judge of whether or not a training package delivered to a staff team was fit-for-purpose and suitable and sufficient for the control of risk.
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