Nulca accredits defined locator training programs.
Find a program offered to outside employers and learners, or learn how Nulca reviews an organization’s own defined training program against its Competency Standard.
Accreditation applies to the named training program.
Nulca reviews and accredits the exact program named. It does not accredit the company that offers or operates it, the company’s locating services, or individual employees who complete the training.
What Nulca means by a training program
A training program is the complete, documented way an organization prepares people for a defined kind of locating work.
It includes the curriculum, instruction, field practice, and methods used to check whether participants learned the material. It is more than a class title, slide deck, or piece of equipment.
Available training programs
Find a program for an individual or team
A training provider offers the named program to people outside its own organization through open enrollment, private team training, or another arranged delivery model.
Find a training programInternal workforce training
A program used for an organization’s own workforce
A locating company, utility, or other employer operates the named program to prepare its own employees. When accredited, it appears as a named program on that company’s locator profile, not in the directory of programs offered to others.
How Nulca reviews a training program
Nulca reviews the named program as a complete training system, not simply the organization that offers or operates it.
What the program teaches
The documented curriculum and the knowledge and skills it is designed to develop in locators.
Who the program is for
The intended audience, experience level, prerequisites, and responsibilities the training prepares people to perform.
How learning happens
The way instruction, equipment practice, field experience, coaching, or other learning activities are delivered.
How learning is checked
The methods used to determine whether participants understood and can apply the material covered by the program.
What Nulca accreditation means
A Nulca-accredited program label identifies the exact training program reviewed. That defined program is the accredited item.
It does tell you
It does not accredit or certify
The company that offers or operates the program.
Every other course the provider may offer.
An individual locator who completes the training.
A company whose employees only attend an outside accredited program.
If a locating company operates an accredited internal program: Nulca may identify the exact named program on the company’s directory profile. That signal recognizes the company’s investment in workforce preparation. It is not accreditation of the company or a guarantee of project fit.
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