Building a Better Maintenance Force:
How Knowledge Testing Simplifies Training

By: Tom Ramsay

Effectively training plant personnel is a major challenge for many organizations. This whitepaper discusses how testing can be used to simplify the training process and make it more effective.

This topics covered follow the diagram below, explaining each step in detail and how this methodology can be used to help you build a better maintenance force.

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Tom Ramsay Roland T. (Tom) Ramsay, our principal consultant, founded Ramsay Corporation in May of 1973. Prior to that he had been Staff Supervisor of Employment & Placement in the Office of the Vice Chairman of the Board at United States Steel Corporation. He was also a Lecturer in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Dr. Ramsay is a licensed psychologist and is a Diplomate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is author of Management's Guide to Effective Employment Interviewing and Management's Guide to Effective Employment Testing, both published by Dartnell. Tom has more than 30 years of human resources work experience.