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Technical Training

Accreditation and Registration
Before being authorized to certify devices covered by the Weights and Measures Act on behalf of Measurement Canada, a technician must be employed by an accredited organization or a registered organization or one that is in the process of being accredited or registered and the technician must have successfully completed the training required for the field of application.

Course pre-requisites:

• Technician is employed by an organization which has paid all applicable accreditation or registration fees.
• For organizations seeking accreditation, the formal documentation review of their Quality Assurance manual must be completed (or very close to being completed) prior to the technician(s) receiving the training.
• Technician has sufficient knowledge of the language of instruction to be able to comprehend the content of the training and to communicate to the trainer, both understanding as well as integration of information presented in training and; is sufficiently literate and numerate to record, manipulate and calculate data such as words, numbers, ratios and percentages and to transfer device testing information legibly onto appropriate test and report documents.