I hope you get better management that actually understands how much data one person can process.
Cynically, management doesn’t care if we read or understand the material, only that we click a button that documents (records) that we have “been trained on it” and acknowledge that.
In reality, after decades of exposure to the same basic concepts, most people who are “trained” on this material do know - vaguely - what’s in the documents, and the real function of the training is to remind you that the procedures are there and when they are applicable to what you are doing (rarely, in my job function) then you should pull the official, current, procedure from the official document repository and reference that as a work instruction while you do what it applies to. Part of why the procedures are in such bad shape is that people rarely do exercise them like that, so flaws remain un-noticed for long stretches of time.
I hope that one day, the world can openly accept that people are not perfect executors of written, spoken, or graven in stone instructions and that that is O.K. and we can still do a good job with our flaws. Some of the procedural safeguards are implicitly acknowledging that without coming right out and acknowledging that. I suspect that day will come after I retire, if ever, and I may work for another 30 years.
Cynically, management doesn’t care if we read or understand the material, only that we click a button that documents (records) that we have “been trained on it” and acknowledge that.
In reality, after decades of exposure to the same basic concepts, most people who are “trained” on this material do know - vaguely - what’s in the documents, and the real function of the training is to remind you that the procedures are there and when they are applicable to what you are doing (rarely, in my job function) then you should pull the official, current, procedure from the official document repository and reference that as a work instruction while you do what it applies to. Part of why the procedures are in such bad shape is that people rarely do exercise them like that, so flaws remain un-noticed for long stretches of time.
I hope that one day, the world can openly accept that people are not perfect executors of written, spoken, or graven in stone instructions and that that is O.K. and we can still do a good job with our flaws. Some of the procedural safeguards are implicitly acknowledging that without coming right out and acknowledging that. I suspect that day will come after I retire, if ever, and I may work for another 30 years.