The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) introduced an online certification database for the association’s National Standards and Testing Program. This database will offer SBCA members improved ways to manage their businesses and ensure that their technicians meet industry requirements. The new database will allow technicians to receive online the results of their certification or recertification course; allow vendors to verify a technician’s certification status; verify that a technician’s name matches their certification number; provide vendors with access to the level of NSTP certification that technicians have acquired; and verify when certification expires for both the technician and the vendor.

“An online certification database will provide technicians with a quick and easy tool to access the results of recent NSTP certification and recertification tests,” SBCA Vice- President of Training and Technology Steve Hill said in a prepared statement. “SBCA will continue to provide its members with educational programs and management tools to assist in ensuring that satellite technicians are providing the best customer service possible.”