Senior management should ensure that this policy is understood, implemented and maintained at all levels of the Organisation.
2.2 Organisational arrangements
2.2.1 Responsibility and authority
The responsibility, authority and interrelation of all personnel including management, instructors, examiners and support staff, who perform and verify work affecting training should be defined and documented. Particular attention should be paid to personnel who need the organisational freedom to:
a) Initiate action to prevent the occurrence of any non-conformities relating to the TMS;
b) Identify and record any problems relating to the TMS;
c) Initiate, recommend or provide solutions to identified problems through designated channels;
d) Verify the implementation of solutions;
e) Identify pertinent changes to student training and competence requirements and initiate action to incorporate appropriate changes to VTS training programs.
2.2.2 Management representative.
The senior management of the Organisation should appoint a member of its own management who, irrespective of other responsibilities, should have defined authority for:
a) Ensuring that the TMS is established, implemented and maintained in accordance with this standard;
b) Reporting on the performance of the TMS to the management of the Organisation for review and as a basis of improvement.
2.3 TMS requirements.
2.3.1 General
The Organisation should establish, document, and maintain a TMS in conformance with the requirements of this standard as a means of ensuring that students are trained in accordance with the requirements of pertinent model courses and any additional requirements of the Competent Authority.
2.3.2 Training Management Manual
TMS documentation should include a Training Management Manual. The Training Management Manual should at a minimum provide:
a) A copy of the quality policy
b) An overview of the TMS of the Organisation;
c) An outline of the documentation structure of the TMS
d) Cross references to the requirements of this standard; and
e) References to pertinent TMS documentation.
