Education, training, and audits are essential to ensure compliance.

Education, training, and audits are essential to ensure compliance.

Education, training, and audits are essential to ensure compliance.

It is essential for training organisations to have systems and procedures in place to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Education, training, and audit are key components of these compliance systems.

Education ensures that employees are aware of their responsibilities and the consequences of non-compliance. Education on what is compliant and what is not compliant is crucial in ensuring that employees are aware of the requirements.

Training provides employees with the skills and knowledge necessary to comply with regulations. Regular professional development sessions should be held to ensure that all staff are up-to-date with the latest compliance and regulatory requirements. These sessions can cover topics such as changes to compliance regulations, new compliance risks, and best practices for staying compliant. By ensuring that all employees have the latest information on compliance, organisations can minimise the risk of non-compliance.

Your training organisation must also conduct regular audits of our training programmes to ensure that they meet all the necessary standards. Audits can help identify areas where improvements need to be made, and they can also provide valuable feedback on the effectiveness of compliance systems. By conducting regular audits, training organisations can ensure that they are meeting all of their compliance obligations.

Organisations must continually review and update their compliance systems to ensure they remain effective. Employees should be given regular opportunities to feedback on the effectiveness of compliance systems and suggest improvements.

By having such stringent measures in place, the organisations can be confident that they are compliant with all the relevant laws and regulations. This helps to protect their reputation, employees and clients and ensures that they can continue to provide high-quality training services.

Compliance is everyone's responsibility; by working together, we can ensure that our organisation remains compliant with all relevant regulations.

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Sukh Sandhu

Executive Director

Sukh has been working in the VET and Higher Education Industry for over 25 years. In this time, he has held several roles with RTO's and Higher Education Providers (HEP) including CEO roles for International Colleges and National Compliance and Quality Assurance Manager roles for several RTO's, TAFE's and Universities. Sukh has also worked for the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) as a Business Systems Project Official. Sukh is a Canadian permanent resident and Australian citizen.

Sukh has had extensive project management experience in risk management, compliance, administration and as a training consultant. He has extensive knowledge in government compliance standards and has participated in nearly one hundred audits across Australia and provided consultancy advice regarding ASQA/VRQA, TEQSA, ACPET, DET-HESG, VQF/Higher Education, ELICOS, NEAS, ANMAC, AHPRA, CRICOS, ESOS and ISO.

Sukh is a member of several independent professional organisations and government bodies including, ACPET, VELG, ACS, AITD, MARA, MIA, ISANA, APEX, IEEE, The Internet Society (Global Member), AISIP, IAMOT, ACM, OISV, APACALL, IWA, Eta Kappa Nu, EDSIG and several others.

Sukh's qualifications include two MBAs, three masters in IT and systems, a Graduate diploma of management learning, Diploma in training design and development, Diploma in vocational education training, Diploma of work, health and safety, Diploma of Quality Auditing, Advanced diploma of management, Advanced diploma in marketing, human resources, information technology, and a number of other courses and qualifications. He has been working as a lecturer and as a trainer and assessor since 1998, Sukh has been a vocal advocate of audit reforms and system centred auditing practices rather than auditor centred auditing practices for many years.