Team & HR

Training records with mandatory courses tracked to expiry

Half of compliance is proving the person doing the work was trained to do it. Gaffer holds each course against the individual — provider, awarding body, certificate number, completion and expiry — and flags which courses are mandatory so the gaps are obvious before a client audit finds them.

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How training records work in Gaffer

A record per person per course, with expiry surfaced alongside qualifications and certificates.

Mandatory is a flag

Courses can be marked mandatory, so the difference between 'nice to have' and 'cannot work without it' is in the data rather than in someone's head.

Awarding body and certificate

Provider, awarding body and certificate number are all recorded, which is exactly the detail a principal contractor's onboarding pack asks for.

Expiry in one stream

Training expiries surface with qualifications, scheme memberships and DBS checks, so renewals are one list rather than four.

What you get

Training records sit with your qualifications register, HR records and contractor inductions in one platform.

  • Course name and course type recorded against the individual
  • Training provider and awarding body captured separately
  • Certificate number stored for verification
  • Completion date and expiry date with alerting before lapse
  • Mandatory flag to separate essential training from optional
  • Delivery method and duration in hours recorded
  • Outcome recorded, with notes for context

Common questions about training records

How is this different from the qualifications register?

Qualifications are the tickets that authorise someone to do regulated work — Gas Safe, NICEIC, ECS, CSCS. Training records cover the wider set: manual handling, asbestos awareness, first aid, working at height, IPAF, PASMA. Both expire, and both surface in the same alerts.

Can I see who is missing mandatory training?

Yes. Because mandatory is a flag on the course record rather than a convention, you can see who has not completed a required course rather than inferring it from who has.

Does this help with contractor onboarding?

Considerably. Principal contractors typically ask for training matrices and certificate numbers before you get on site, and having them held per person with certificate references makes that a lookup rather than a scramble.

What happens when training expires?

It surfaces through Gaffer's expiry alerts ahead of the date, in the same stream as certificate and qualification renewals, so it can be rebooked before it lapses rather than after.

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