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Reply To: EEA Guide for Competency (Safety Refreshment) Programmes

  • Shaun Colley

    Member
    7 February 2023 at 3:34 pm

    Hi Graeme,

    I missed seeing this last year, where is it currently at?

    Do you see the ongoing validation/current competency assessment of everything else that was in the refresher document as being captured within the ENA CCF competency validation process from here on or elsewhere?

    Also, if it’s only a recommendation why not just stick with the gazetted refresher prescription requirements so we don’t end up back where we are which is different networks requiring yearly refreshers while others have 2 yearly? (We currently have annual refreshers as we were following the various guides and every EWRB off-year we do our own internal non St John first aid, basic testing etc)

    If we as an industry think it should be 12 monthly then why don’t we just have it amended?

    Just a query, as we have already had enough issues trying to comply with EWRB/St John changes and muddying the water with 12 and/or 24 months seems unnecessary *shrugs shoulders*