Once a month — on the day we host our monthly Human Resource teleconference — we sweep through commenting opportunities on consensus products developed for incorporation by reference into federal, state and local safety and sustainability legislation.
We find relatively few commenting opportunities presented by accredited standards developers in the human resource space. We find far more significant high level policy statements; first among them developed by a unit of the American National Standards Institute, linked below:
WORKCRED: Connecting credential, competencies, careers, customers
The proper business of the education industry overall — and the $300 billion facility segment we follow (and often lead) — is preparing the workforce everywhere to contribute to national economic priorities. There is a strong cultural component — i.e. branding — the topic of another post. Some have referred to this component as sustaining a cohort or guild that creates an emotional bond that hastens learning and a continual desire to self-educate to remain part of the cohort.
At the moment, the WORKCRED program at this point in its development, appears to provides guidance to conformance and compliance organizations among its members. The user-interest in the education facility industry, at least dependent on a skilled workforce as any economic sector, and welcomed to participate. We identify the initiative here and will keep a weather-eye out for commenting opportunities on draft consensus products emerging from it. The link below should provide a more detailed overview of the program until a “commentable consensus product” suitable for incorporation by reference into legislation is released.
Organizations with their own credentialing enterprises for skilled trades, ICT, software engineering, etc. — are encouraged to communicate directly with the WORKCRED staff (CLICK HERE).
