Time for change

Every year, emergency service training organisations spend thousands, even millions of dollars on an outdated accreditation model that continues to fail learners and provides poor return on investment for public funds. IPSQA revolutionizes public safety qualifications through a new model of certification, that reduces complexity, cost and improves recognition and collaboration. 

Agencies have been forced into focusing on external compliance, rather quality training. IPSQA allows agencies to refocus on delivering great training that is then independently assessed to meaningful standards, whilst encouraging inter-agency collaboration and saving costs
RTO Manager, Australia
"Vocational reform in the past few years have left us with a system we have little influence over, designed by people who are not even in or understand our industry, and we have even lost unit standards that we really need for our specialists but are deemed not viable because they don't have the numbers like mainstream units such as hairdressing"
Emergency Service Instructor
Emergency Service InstructorNew Zealand
"Just as we finish one trainer and assessor qualification upgrade, we are hit with another. It is costing us over $100,000 each time, and we loose experienced volunteer instructors who just don't have the time for it. The cost of recruiting and equipping new instructors as a result, is another indirect cost we can no longer afford".
Training Coordinator
Training CoordinatorAustralia
"We recently wanted to bring an international expert in to teach our rescue squads, but because she did not have the Australian Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, we couldn't. It was like a rare opportunity to have Bill Gates come and teach students about computers, but saying he is not suitably qualified. The current model we use actually ends up disadvantaging our learners"
Rescue Instructor
Rescue InstructorAustralia
Our old accreditation model prevents us from training and assessing outside our State. IPSQA encourages us to be globally engaged, without jurisdictional boundaries or exclusive territories. We can now create opportunities around the country, and the world for our people.
Rescue Technician
Rescue TechnicianNew Zealand
Though national standards have become so vague creating inconsistency in competency, some clients still want them. IPSQA allows us to add value, providing second-stage robust assessment and post-training exercise management business opportunities that never existed previously. So in tandem, we offer clients a greater point of difference.
RTO Managing Director
RTO Managing DirectorAustralia
As an organization of scale, we are really pleased that IPSQA will tailor an annual license for us that means we can save thousands on our budget, and improve the proficiency of our client's responders at the same time. Who said you could not do more with less? Thanks IPSQA for your vision and pragmatism.
Chief Financial OfficerGlobal Training Company (Middle East)
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Many competency systems have become so costly to implement and maintain, that agencies are looking at alternatives that also provide better value for public funds. For many agencies who have adopted state or national accreditation systems, the focus has moved from high impact training, to monotonous compliance box-ticking, often at the expense of learners who then dis-engage from such formal training.

These systems are also touted as nationally recognised, but often when practitioners move from one jurisdiction to another they are often not recognised and have to recomplete training; and the verification of such training is also not available real-time which is often useful in public safety emergency response. 

The IPSQA certification scheme focuses on professional qualification standards for a specified public safety role. 

Old School or New School?

Are you still using an Old School model? Maybe its time to switch to New School – IPSQA. Compare the tabs below to see the benefits.