Originally Posted by Squadgy
Yes, as I said it's a 'Unit' competence check - sorry I perhaps didn't make it clear that the 'legal' requirement is once every two years, as you said. Not sure why this has been implemented locally. I'll ask next time I'm in unless someone else provides an answer before.
The answer on this is that these local competence checks are done every six months (sorry my mistake, not every year!),to ensure that high standards are maintained and to ensure that staff are fully offay with the latest procedures, the boss says it has improved performance. There is no cost issue as the checks are conducted by the Local Examiners rather than SRG. It's not a pass/fail like the full validation.
It also gives the FISOs the opportunity to discuss and issues or ideas they may have.
The unit management also have FISO tickets and provide the service very regulary, so whilst there is no formal spot checks or R/T sampling we are monitored. The R/T is recorded so if there was a need or a training point to be discussed it could be played back to aid that.