Rigger,
I have been an engineer for some 35 years, both Military and Civilian.... One of the Best forms of Tool Control is buying them yourself, believe me when you pay a fortune for them, you make sure they are there at the end of the job, if not the aircraft goes nowhere........
You will be in for a serious eye opener when you progress on from the RAF/RN/TWAW as the majority of the tooling is supplied by the individual and it is their responsibility for there control, large companies tend to supply just the specialised stuff and that is it, I could count on one hand the companies that provide the lot as the RAF does, and to be honest you do not see 737, Gulfstreams, Squirrels, Pitts Specials or the likes falling out of the skys because of uncontrolled tools, which as being privately owned and supplied the majority are.........
Put on top of that Contractors coming in and helping out when busy leading to a rapid turnover of staffing, and the likes of drill bits, screws etc dispensed from around the hangars and disposed of afterwards.............
As for tool control in the RAF......well can't be that good, every fod plod poster you see has a 6 or 12 inch ruler in it
Ohh and as for Fod Plods, you will be pushed to see a sweeper let alone a fod plod on some Civilian international airport. The runway gets an Air tragic car down it, but that's about it.