EN 15628, “Maintenance. Qualification of maintenance personnel,” has just been released. This new European standard provides information for defining the knowledge, skills, and competence levels for maintenance personnel. It’s intended to be used by any business or educational facility that offers training and qualification of maintenance personnel.
The EN 15628 replaces a previous technical report on the same topic, CEN/TR 15628, from 2007. In it you’ll find information on 3 levels of qualification:
- European maintenance technician – EQF level 4 to 5, or equivalent, with higher vocational training and at least 2 years of experience in maintenance.
- European maintenance supervisor – EQF level 5 to 6, or equivalent, with technically-based training and at least 3 years of experience.
- European maintenance manager – EQF level 6 to 7, or equivalent, with a Management / Engineering background and at least 5 years of experience.
All of these categories of competence are for staff involved in the maintenance of plant, infrastructure and production systems.
This document shows the growing importance of human resource standards. We list all standards in this classification at our page for Standards on the Management of Human Resources. You can use this page to locate HR and training standards that are applicable to your needs. And if you are interested in what’s new on this topic, I regularly post a list of new releases at blog.document-center.com. Here’s one from the 2nd Quarter 2014: http://blog.document-center.com/2014/08/new-management-of-human-resources.html.
Of course, for those of us who have been working with standards for many years, the shift from engineering and technical standardization towards management and HR standards is an interesting trend. I would be interested to know if you use any such standards, and if so, your assessment of the value of these types of documents.
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