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Know that your people are qualified, and be able to prove it

FOCUS Learning builds the software that regulated industries run their training and qualification programs on. Purpose-built for work where an unqualified person is a safety event, and backed by a services team who have run these programs themselves.

Forty years inside training programs that get audited

Nuclear generating stations, transmission and distribution utilities, system operators, government facilities and the manufacturers building the next generation of reactors. More than 175 organizations, and the reason they stay is that the record holds up.

Completion is an activity. Qualification is an operational decision

Almost every organization can tell you who finished a course. Far fewer can show, on demand, that a named person was qualified for a specific task on a specific date, and what evidence supports that judgment.

That gap is where the spreadsheets appear. It is also where enforcement findings live, because a reviewer is not auditing your course catalog. They are following one person, on one task, back to the analysis that said the task mattered and forward to the evidence that says the person could do it.

Everything we build exists to keep that chain intact while the work, the plant and the people keep changing.

The chain a reviewer follows

Five links. They can start at any one of them and walk in either direction, which is why the links matter more than the documents.

  1. 1

    Job task

    Validated with the people who actually do the work.

  2. 2

    Objective

    Derived from the task, not from the available content.

  3. 3

    Training

    Built to teach that objective.

  4. 4

    Qualification

    Assessed, dated, and signed by a named evaluator.

  5. 5

    Evidence

    Retrievable later, by someone who was not there.

If any link is missing, the chain is the finding. This is the whole reason a learning system on its own does not close it.

Software and services for the whole lifecycle

Two software platforms, the services that make them work, and the AI layer on top. Clients take the software and the services as one engagement on an annual footing, because a training program is never finished.

Software

VISION

Connected tools for training and qualification management, built on the systematic approach to training. Authoring and delivery work over one shared set of records, with qualification cards, hierarchies and task hazard analysis held in the same model.

Software

Qlarity

A cloud application arranged around the phases of the work, with a NERC reporting set and a self-service portal so employees can see their own status without asking anyone.

Services

Professional Services

Program design, materials development, managed training administration, knowledge transfer and ongoing program review. Practitioners who have built programs and sat through the evaluations, not a generic consulting playbook.

AI

MADDIE

A supervised assistant available on cloud-hosted VISION. It answers questions on the method, explains features and restates documentation. It does not make judgment calls about your program, and your data stays inside your own isolated instance.

In our clients’ own words

What truly differentiates FOCUS Learning is their people. Every individual I have worked with has been highly responsive, professional, flexible, and genuinely committed to our success.

While the quality of their work is outstanding, it is the strength of the relationships they build that stands out most.

Scott HamiltonAES Indiana SEC

Qlarity does all the things that we hoped it would. It helped tremendously in our last audit. By using the reporting features, we were able to quickly and easily access all the data we needed to give evidence for compliance to necessary standards.

Vicki Von RichterTraining Specialist, New Brunswick Power System Operator

Organizations that trust FOCUS Learning

  • TVA
  • Constellation
  • Dominion
  • Duke Energy
  • AEP
  • MISO
  • Energy Northwest
  • PSEG
  • Wolf Creek

Frequently asked questions

Answered directly, in the words people actually search.

What does FOCUS Learning actually do?

We do two things that work as one. We build software, VISION and Qlarity, that holds training requirements, qualification records and the evidence behind them. And we provide consultants who design the program itself: the job and task analysis, the objectives, the materials, the assessments and the ongoing review. Both are built on the systematic approach to training, so the method the consultants use is the method the software enforces.

Who is this for?

Organizations where an unqualified person is a safety or compliance event rather than an inconvenience. In practice that means nuclear generating stations, transmission and distribution utilities, system operators under NERC PER-005, government and defense facilities, and the manufacturers building small and advanced reactors.

Do we need to replace our LMS?

Usually not. Most regulated organizations keep the learning system for content delivery and add a qualification system as the record of requirements and evidence. Replacement only makes sense when the LMS is also being used as a de facto qualification record, which is where the manual reconciliation and the audit exposure both come from.

Can we buy the software without the services?

You can, and some clients do. In practice the two together are what produces a working program rather than a license and a backlog, so most engagements are scoped as an ongoing relationship with a named technical account manager and scheduled program reviews. We will tell you honestly which parts you need.

How long has FOCUS Learning been doing this?

Since 1985. That matters less as a credential than as a reason our consultants have sat on the other side of an evaluation, and our software is shaped by forty years of arguments about what an assessor will actually accept as evidence.

Start with one real qualification path

Pick the messiest one you have. We will map its requirements and its evidence and show you where it depends on somebody remembering, rather than describe it in a deck.

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