Short update on the establishment and development of QCTO OHS programs.
CONTEXT: Articles on this website are generally for training providers who train short courses (skills programs and unit standards), who train OHS related topics, who are private companies, who offer quality, and who are ethical in their dealings.
DATES: Dates matter, please see the date of each article you read. Dates matter because these are often developing situations.
I requested feedback from HWSETA and QCTO on the OHS programs that the public assisted with. No fruits have been seen from that work. The last incoming communications from QCTO and HWSETA I could find about this, before the lates reponse, was from August and October from Champa and Ben.
On 19 August Ben (consultant hired by HWSETA) requested public comments were submitted to him by 26 August. Then on 29 October Champa requested final commentary submitted to Ben by 15th November. I requested updates from HWSETA and QCTO a few times and got a response on 19 February 2025 from HWSETA.
Here are notes from HWSETA’s response:
Here are my notes on this:
The actual subject matter experts from the public should be kept involved: They are being excluded at these final stages. This did not work out well with the QCTO first aid curricula because the final edits were done by HWSETA and QCTO staff who are administrators and who do NOT have subject matter expertise in the field. The final edits to the first aid curricula were damaging e.g. the required outcomes were tripled for one of the curricula making the course almost impossible to assess properly.
