LANL Required Training

Anyone who works for Los Alamos National Laboratory as a LANS employee, contractor, subcontractor or is an on-site visitor for 10 days or more in a year is required to be properly trained and authorized to perform work. The Department of Energy (DOE) requires that all workers who come on site take a core set of courses before they are authorized to do work on Laboratory property or property rented by the Laboratory. Several required courses have annual refresher classes that workers must complete to maintain their authorization to perform work. Additionally, there are

• LANL site-specific courses that are compulsory before individuals may work in certain technical areas, and
• Job-specific courses that must be taken before workers may perform specific tasks.

Each worker's tailored requirements will be assessed and explained by the worker's line manager.

Although many Laboratory courses are web-delivered, most courses are live performance-based courses and require the student/trainee to be present in instructor-delivered class to view demonstrations and/or perform a task as part of passing the course. Furthermore, not all web-delivered courses can be made available on the Lab's external server because many contain business processes that are not public information.

Finally, new hires and potential hires may not receive credit for web-based courses (listed below) until their Z-numbers (employee numbers) are in the official LANL Employee Information System (EIS). Having been assigned a Z-number as a interviewee or new hire does not necessarily mean that your official record is in EIS. Usually, before person can take online courses for official credit, the person must

• Wait until she/he is on site in Los Alamos,
• Be given a photo ID badge, and
• Ensure that the LANL Security Division has authorized that his/her personnel records be moved into the official EIS.