The even more worrying bit, to me anyway, is that when people come for reassessment, they get a day or whatever of refresher training, like the day before. What do we go over and over? Yep, tightness testing, gas rates... Because as everyone knows, it's bad for business to have to fail people.
SO you have people who've been doing it at least 5 years ( the worst ones are the longer ones, quite often) who ought to basically know most of it. Then you've reminded them, shown them the tables in the book where different meters and different pipe sizes have different allowances, and asked the class to respond to a few examples.
Then on the assessment you point to a U6 on 22mm and ask what the allowance is. Sometimes you just know, you feel it in your water, they're going to say "Is it one bar".
The urge to take by the throat and do damage, is there.
Then about a third still think the allowance can be on pipework, which it can't. It never could. It hasn't changed. SO what does the assessor do? Fail them? What we do is make them read it out loud from the book, then get them to agree it's clear, close the book, and we ask them again. Every now and again we still get:
"yeh, but if it's existin' it's ok".
There are definitely some nump.. I mean less able people on this site, but the average is way higher than come through the ACS.
chris and kirk gas take it ur assessors what quals do you need for met4
http://www.gascert.co.uk/gas-acs-gl.../meters-and-emergency-providers/courses/met4/yep but i need any other quals other than ccn1 to take it
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