Jesse McNeilly @JesseMcNeilly
It’s a story all too common in restricted environments.
Some sites send members off site to conduct skill refresher blocks to keep up the competencies such as a training provider with a ropes set up and equipment to carry out the drills you mention, that’s one option.
Another option is developing a risk assessment to showcase the skills gap and the criticality of the lack of training resources you have, emphasising the need to maintain an adequate response team and infrastructure by law.
One more / a combination could be to run a response exercise and record your findings to prove that a lack of resources exist in the current form. This could push and assist management to see and understand why it’s so important for the emergency response team to upgrade its current capacity to your requirements as it proves you don’t have enough. This can be shown through data such as; call out times, capacities, capabilities, skills, awareness, communications, knowledge and more.
What do you think?
