The National Service of Occupational Training in Industry (SENATI) is an institution of vocational training that has the purpose of developing human ability for the productive and satisfactory occupational performance of the manufacturer industrial activity and the tasks geared at the installation, reparation and maintenance.

It was created by law in 1961. The initiative for its creation came from the National Society of Industries when it became apparent that the traditional vocational training and technical education did not offer the qualifications required by the modern productive activity.

Since its creation it has been conceived as a public institution with legal status and own patrimony, with technical, pedagogical, administrative and economic autonomy in order to give the institution the flexibility that industrial development requires.

Its institutional mission is to contribute to strengthen and sustain the development of industrial activities through training highly qualified personnel and offering technical services.

The SENATI has created a System of Vocational Training that responds to the real demands of the productive activity in order to achieve the objectives of the institution.

Occupational health and safety in vocational training for productivity, employment growth and development. SENATI's experience.In: Technical Meeting: The role of vocational training in productivity, employment and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Salvador, Bahia (Brasil), September, 2007

SENATI obtains the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification of its management system

Institutional processes in SENATI quality certification

SENATI: Services for SMEs

Quality management in vocational training institutions
in Vargas, F. Quality management in vocational training. Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 2004

SENATI: technological information services p.38
in Cinterfor/ILO: Modernization in Vocational Education and Training in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region.
Montevideo, 2001.