FAQ Friday: Training Tracker

The Training Tracker is a valuable tool for local unions to track training records and optimize their training programs. In this FAQ blog, we explore how the Training Tracker works and how local unions can leverage it to make data-driven decisions and elevate their training initiatives.

What is the Training Tracker?
The Training Tracker is designed to help local unions track safety and craft skills trainings. It provides a centralized system for recording training courses and industry-approved certifications. This enables local unions to maintain accurate records of their workers' training progress and requirements.

How can local unions benefit from the Training Tracker?
One of the most significant advantages of the Training Tracker is its capacity to provide valuable data insights. With the data collected through the Training Tracker, local unions can analyze the effectiveness of their training programs. They can identify trends in safety and craft skills training completion rates, pinpoint areas for improvement, and tailor future training initiatives to better meet the needs of their workers. This ensures that local training programs are constantly evolving to deliver maximum value to IATSE workers.

What is included in the Training Tracker?
Training records include:

• Courses taken directly through the TTF and its programs (not including LinkedIn Learning and AVIXA)

• Local union courses that were supported by the TTF through Course Reimbursement or use of TTF curriculum

• Individual certifications reimbursed through Certification Reimbursement

• Individual OSHA online courses reimbursed through OSHA Online Course Reimbursement

• Local union group courses submitted to the Training Tracker

I checked the Training Tracker account for our local, but it doesn’t list all the courses our members have completed. Why?
When an IATSE worker takes a course you present with financial support from the Course Reimbursement program, we manually add those records to the Training Tracker after we get training sign-in sheets. We also routinely add industry certifications for which we reimburse through the Certification Reimbursement program. TTF Safety First! Online Courses and No Fee Courses like the OSHA 10-Hour General Industry with Focus on the Entertainment Industry, OSHA 10-Hour Construction with Focus on the Entertainment Industry, AVIXA Networking Technology, and Train the Trainer are manually uploaded weekly. The MPTV Online Safety Program (ASA) courses A, A2, and HP1/HP2 are updated when we receive course completion updates from Contract Services.

Other trainings your local union organizes and presents locally can also be added to the Training Tracker. Your local just needs to send us the Training Tracker Submission Form and sign-in sheets. Please keep in mind that Training Tracker records are manually updated, so course completions may not be available immediately after a class ends.

How do we submit a course to the Training Tracker?
If your local has requested funds through our Course Reimbursement program or is using TTF Curriculum, you don’t need to submit your courses because we're already tracking them for you! Otherwise, you should download the Training Tracker Submission Form and Course Sign-in Sheet Template before your course, and make sure participants sign in for every day of training. Sign-in sheets must have the following information: Course Name, Course Date(s), Local, Instructor Name, and Participants’ First and Last Name and their date of birth, with a signature for each day of class. Email the Submission Form and sign-in sheets to tracking@iatsetrainingtrust.org.

We want to update our local membership’s records in the Training Tracker, but we don’t have sign-in sheets for all classes. Can we send in a list of names and trainings?
Sign-in sheets are necessary for the TTF to verify IATSE workers’ eligibility as TTF Beneficiaries. At a minimum, sign-in sheets must list the host local, course date, instructor name, participants’ full name, and participants’ date of birth with a signature for each day of the class.

Who can view training records for my local union?
Local unions can only access their own local's training records. Local union officers can apply for a local union account to see what training information we have for your local. Participating employers can also search these training records once they request access.

• Training Tracker Conditions for Access and Use

  All access to, and any use of, the Training Tracker is governed by the below disclaimers and limits on use.

  The content of this database tracks courses taken through the TTF and safety and craft skills training courses offered by Locals and their TTF signatory employers by collecting course sign-in sheets and uploading that information to the database. The Training Tracker is maintained and monitored by TTF staff.

  While every attempt is made to ensure that information found in this database is accurate and up to date, the information is subject to change and all information included is subject to the accuracy and completeness of the information provided for entry to the TTF. The IATSE Training Trust Fund will not be held liable for information found in this database and reserves the right to determine the basis of inclusion for training records submitted to the TTF and to alter the content of the database at any time.

  Please note that the Training Tracker may not contain training records for courses and certifications not submitted to us and/or taken outside of TTF or IATSE Local or signatory employer offerings. We encourage you to double-check the information obtained through the Training Tracker.

• Disclaimer of Liability

  Neither the TTF nor its contributors shall be held liable for any improper or incorrect use of the information described and/or contained herein and the TTF assumes no responsibility for anyone's use of the information. In no event shall the TTF or its contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, tort (including negligence or otherwise), or any other theory arising in any way out of the use of this system, even if advised of the possibility of such damage. This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury, whether based on alleged breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence or any other cause of action, including but not limited to damages or injuries caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, and/or theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of any record.

• Disclaimer of Warranties/Accuracy and Use of Data

  Although the data found using the TTF Training Tracker database have been produced and processed from sources believed to be reliable, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding accuracy, adequacy, completeness, legality, reliability or usefulness of any information. This disclaimer applies to both isolated and aggregate uses of the information. The TTF provides this information on an "AS IS" basis. All warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, freedom from contamination by computer viruses and non-infringement of proprietary rights ARE DISCLAIMED. Changes may be periodically added to the information herein; these changes may or may not be incorporated in any new version of the publication. If the user finds any errors or omissions, we encourage the user to report them to us at tracking@iatsetrainingtrust.org.