Everyone knows "interpretation" of any term is necessary for lawyers to be able to make millions. As qualified gets more defined, employers are required to do more and more training to lessen their liability in an accident. Therefore, in order to meet their training requirements, they are more and more turning to training institutions. When the litigation occurs, the employer can point the finger at the training company. The training company then has to defend its program. The employer is ultimately liable, but the more entities that can be dragged into the case the longer it will drag on and the more money for the lawyers and the higher insurance premiums will rise for all imvolved. Think about this when you are sleeping through another training program where you get a certificate or sign an attendance roster. Those pieces of paper are documenting your road to being qualified. Why are you there? To provide the company with ammunition against you in the event of an accident? "I slept through that part" doesn't help your case or your survivors case very much. Think about this as an instructor when your class is boring and the students can't see why they are there. The student should have a different and more personal reason for being there than to meet a legally enforcible definition of "qualified." The instructor must be able to get this accross to the student.
